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Here’s a new short film from AJC , pinpointing one reason why the Middle East peace process has failed to yield results.

Israel and the Palestinians: “No” is the Real Obstacle to Peace from AJC on Vimeo.

Paul Waugh reports:
Ed Miliband is facing increasing backbench unrest over his failure to speak out about Labour’s mayoral defeat in Tower Hamlets, and Ken Livingstone’s role in the debacle.
MPs are furious Mr Livingstone has been allowed to sidestep party rules with his support for victorious independent candidate Lutfur Rahman. The ex-London mayor campaigned alongside Mr Rahman a few [...]

Given the parade of hate speakers and supporters of terrorism that constituted last weekend’s amusingly-titled Global Peace and Unity Event, nobody will be surprised by this:
GOVERNMENT minister spoke at an event where suicide bomber accessories and items glorifying terrorism were on open sale.
Andrew Stunell, the communities minister, addressed the controversial “Global Peace and Unity” (GPU) [...]

I copy below a snippet from Sam Leith’s column in  The Evening Standard. It speaks for itself.
I was lucky enough to see Mao’s biographer Jung Chang give a talk at the Hay Festival in the Maldives last week.
In the course of it, she set Ken Livingstone straight on one of his heroes. “Mao was responsible for the [...]

A synagogue in the St. Louis, Missouri, area is exhibiting photos and stories about Albanian Muslims who risked their lives to rescue Jews during World War II.

The exhibit is based on Norman Gershman’s book Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II, which we posted about last year.

this is a cross post by bananabrain, the e.e. cummings of the spittoon
the 90 year-old rabbi ovadia yosef is a controversial political and religious figure, to say the least. as emeritus sephardi chief rabbi of israel, the leading sephardi voice in the haredi world and de facto leader of the ultra-religious “shas” party (the only officially [...]

This is a guest post by Raziq

In 2005 Marc Levin, a Jewish-American film maker released an interesting documentary about a rise in anti-Semitism after the 9/11 attacks. It consisted mainly of Levin engaging with a diverse range of people which included: white nationalists, black nationalists, Arab-Americans,   evangelicals, Kabbalist rabbis, holocaust survivors and even the founder [...]

This is a guest post by Akash
The senior cleric of Britain’s main Islamic sharia court has sparked outrage by claiming that non-consensual sex in marriage cannot be called rape and is, therefore, not a criminal offence. In an interview with the Samosa blog, Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, speaking as the head of the Islamic Sharia [...]

This is a guest post by Farah Damji

“The sense of movement is primarily encapsulated in a sensibility of a larger canvas. The unbeaten philosophical principle that out of innocence and mendacity one can become the message has a seductive power…”
~ John Locke Professor of Legal Studies, University of Nantes
Two weeks ago, a video was [...]

Kevin Ovenden, a trustee of the Hamas support outfit Viva Palestina, is to be congratulated. He was decorated for his services to the terrorist group on the latest convoy to Gaza just last week.
Now here is another token of recognition from Fathi Hamad of Hamas, currently the interior minister in Gaza:
Turning to Prime Minister [...]