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Glenn Beck's Horrific Lie -- He Must Be Fired

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Cenk Uygur - Nov. 12 (Opinion) - I think Glenn Beck should be fired. He has told a lie so grotesque that it goes beyond the pale of even dirty politics. Just when I thought he couldn't shock my conscience anymore, he has done it. Let me explain.

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Yes, Mr. Kristof, This Is America

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Killing The Buddha - By Garrett Baer - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Unfortunately, contemporary Islamophobia is not a stain against the otherwise spotless canvas of American history. If anything, that canvas is filthy and should be acknowledged as such. This, Mr. Kristof, is America: land of the screed, home of the enraged.

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The Anti-Defamation League's Ground Zero Mosque Hypocrisy

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Peter Beinart - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - The other day, when the Anti-Defamation League came out against building a mosque near Ground Zero, I think I heard a sound—the sound of chickens coming home to roost.

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Generation Why: Young American Jews and Israeli Exceptionalism

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Daniel Cluchey - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - For those who lived through the Yom Kippur War, for whom the very survival of the Jewish people has been at times a terrifying uncertainty, love means never having to say you're sorry...For those of us who came of age in a world where the Holocaust was a tragedy of the past...Israel is a sacred and beloved state, but not one that we tend to connect viscerally to our own sense of survival.

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Rabbi Lerner's Home Attacked by Right-Wing Zionists

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tikkun - May. 05 (Press Release) - Rabbi's home attacked! Must be neo-Nazis. No, it was right-wing pro-Israel Jews! Berkeley, where else? Will Pasley, Tikkun Press Release.

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In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Qanta Ahmed - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - Islam is the last revealed faith, yet Muslims remain today, in their own minds and own worlds, impotent. I assert this attachment to a fictional superiority and a sense of righteous purity most disables Muslims today.

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Ahmadinejad Spews Raving Lunatic Anti-Semitism on 'Jerusalem Day'

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Sep. 19 (Opinion) - ... the venomous rhetoric against Jews (it isn't just Zionists if it is projected back 500 years) that he used in this speech is so hateful that if it became widespread and ensconced in Iranian society, it certainly would have bad and tragic results-- for Jews, Iranians and for us human beings in general.

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Abraham Foxman is a Rabid Anti-Semite

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - By allvoices.com - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - Abraham Foxman teaches American Jews that the only way to be properly Jewish is to be consumed by fear.

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Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - May. 28 (Opinion) - On Friday, Israeli security forces, Shin Bet, detained Norman Finkelstein when he tried to enter Israel, kept him in an airport holding cell for 24 hours, ordered him deported from the country, and then imposed a 10-year ban on his entry. Finkelstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor, is a Jewish-American author and academic who has frequently criticized the Israeli Government and provoked extreme animosity among right-wing factions in the U.S. He had flown to Israel 15 times previously without incident and was never charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime.

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Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Ira Chernus - May. 14 (Opinion) - Perhaps the only fair way to judge any nation is by its own ideals. Israel makes that task easier for us as it was built upon explicit and well-documented ideals. While many nations have grown up organically, or even accidentally, Israel was a conscious project, a product of half a century of very intentional thinking and planning. Israel's elderly founding fathers had been Zionists since the movement's beginning. They imbibed their ideals from the movement's founders, whose ideals were set forth at great length--there is no mystery about what the Jewish state was meant to achieve and signify.

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Congress Aims to Dumb Down History,Pushes Fiction of Christian Nation in Public Schools

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - Jan. 15 (Press Release) - "The "whereas" paragraphs in this resolution are dishonest: they deliberately confuse the personal religious beliefs of our nation's political leaders with their public actions; they ignore the fact that our Founders (many of whom were deists anyway) checked their religion at the door when they wrote the Constitution.

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How Zionism Broke With the Left

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:01:01 -0700

3 Quarks Daily - By Alon Levy - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - Equipped with an intellectual culture closer in its emphasis on book learning to this of China than to this of the West and a skin color that made it possible for Jews to pass as gentiles in certain cases, Jews came to dominate such skilled professions as the law, medicine, and the academia. Discrimination against Jews was therefore more about explicit restrictions than about the economic impoverishment that typified anti-black racism. For example, in the 1920s Harvard moved from a purely meritocratic admission system to its current system in order to reduce the percentage of Jewish students from 25 to 15; at the time, Jews consisted of 2% of the American population. In contrast, only recently have blacks stopped to be underrepresented in American universities in general, to say nothing of elite universities.

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