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Fogel suspects’ arrest exposes dangers of incitement

April 29, 2011

From The Jewish Standard

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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On Sunday, Israel announced the arrest of Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 18, both from the Palestinian village of Awarta, in connection with the murders of the Fogel family in March. Both have reportedly admitted to perpetrating the murders. Awad...

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Rep. Rothman to Obama: Press Abbas to end incitement, resume talks: J Street objects to legislators’ call for Palestinian accountability as one-sided

March 26, 2011

From The Jewish Standard

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) and Steve Austria (R-Ohio) are calling on President Obama to press Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to return to peace negotiations and to end anti-Israel incitement by the Palestinian Authority....

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Rutgers Students Rise Up To Protest Anti-Zionist Program

February 5, 2011

From The Jewish Standard

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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Hundreds of students and community members assembled on Saturday at Rutgers University to protest an event sponsored by two non-campus groups that invoked the memory of the Holocaust to criticize Israeli policy towards...

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Harvard GOP-er who stood up to Barney Frank scraps — and sings — at Chicago’s Tax Day Tea Party

April 17, 2010

From Jewish World Review

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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llinois Republican Congressional candidate Joel Pollak showed up at Chicago’s tax day tea party in Daley Plaza and attacked the idea that the tea party movement is motivated by prejudice.

In his speech, Pollak said, “I’ve been...

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General Petraeus DID NOT Betray Us

March 25, 2010

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Remember the scene from Woody Allen’s film “Annie Hall” in which a pompous know-it-all is pontificating in a movie line about the ideas of media scholar Marshall McLuhan? After enduring the man’s maundering for several...

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Independent Bangladeshi Journalist’s House Broken Into, Police Do Nothing

February 10, 2010

<!–[endif]–>choudhury-before-after.jpgLate last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka...

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Sarah Palin Is a Feminist

January 14, 2010

From Mom Logic

by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG

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Who is a feminist?

We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska...

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American Foreign Policy Council’s Ilan Berman Exhorts the West to Find Its Backbone

October 14, 2009

Ilan Berman’s new book,“Winning the Long War, Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam,” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) catalogues American successes and failures to defeat radical Islam post-9/11. In its quiet,...

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What Euna and Laura Faced in North Korea

August 19, 2009

From MomLogic

by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG

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Watching journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee return from North Korea escorted by former President Bill Clinton, no one with a heart could fail to be delighted — and relieved. Mothers across the country were especially moved to see Lee...

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Don’t Let Return of Euna Lee and Laura Ling Put Pretty Face on an Ugly Regime

August 19, 2009

Today MomLogic.com features my article, co-written with Jennifer Ginsberg, about the evil of Kim Jong-il’s widespread human rights abuses in North Korea. While Americans are justifiably thrilled that Euna Lee and Laura Ling have...

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