By Daniel Politi in Slate Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she said tried to rape her, ignoring an international campaign urging the country to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to… Read More ›
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President Rivlin: Time to admit that Israel is a sick society that needs treatment
The time has come to admit that Israel is a sick society, with an illness that demands treatment, President Reuven Rivlin said at the opening session on Sunday of a conference on From Hatred of the Stranger to Acceptance of… Read More ›
How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI—and Then Lost Everything
On the night of December 9, 2011, Siham Stewart called her husband, Ayyub Abdul-Alim, as he closed down his corner store, Nature’s Garden, in Springfield, Massachusetts. She asked him to bring home a gallon of milk. A few minutes later,… Read More ›
Conflict Kitchen’s Palestinian focus criticized as one-sided
By Melissa McCart / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Conflict Kitchen in Oakland’s Schenley Plaza debuted its rotation of Palestinian dishes Monday. By noon, more than 30 customers stood in line to order fattoush, falafel, musakhan and other foods. Though the lunch hour… Read More ›
Netanyahu says US criticism of settlements is ‘against American values’
Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying such criticism goes “against American values”.Israel came under fire last week after a Jerusalem city official signed the final go-ahead for construction of… Read More ›
The Syrian Front: Waiting to Die in Aleppo
By Christoph Reuter in Der Spiegel Driving through the outer districts of the city, a ghostly wasteland begins. The streets and the half-destroyed residential buildings are empty and the only sounds come from shredded metal signs moving in the wind… Read More ›
If the U.S. Wanted To, It Could Help Free Thousands of Enslaved Yazidi Women in a Single Day
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The plight of thousands of Yazidi women, kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) during its August 3 attack on Iraq’s Sinjar mountains and in the following weeks, has received some media attention, but most… Read More ›
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
Not the police, mind you, but the campus cops at Ohio State University now possess an MRAP; that is, a $500,000, 18-ton, mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicle of a sort used in the war in Afghanistan and, as Hunter Stuart of the… Read More ›
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