Thursday, 11 February 2010

Limits of free speech (Associated Press)

At a time when pro-Israel groups are escalating complaints that their views are getting shut out of the campus debate, 

a backlash is growing over the right of a pro-Nazi group to organize at the University of Oregon.

Breaking News

A wanted Swedish man has been arrested in connection with the theft of the famous Auschwitz sign.
Israel has begun work to reroute a section of the West Bank security fence near a Palestinian village that has been the site of weekly protests.
A member of the Goldstone Commission was biased against Israel and used flawed methodology in arriving at his conclusions, according to a new report.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran has produced its first highly enriched uranium, a day after he said that Israel must be finished off "once and for all."
A far-right activist in Russia was arrested for creating a brigade to kill Jews.
A Beijing dairy has begun distributing fresh kosher milk throughout China.
Ten institutions across Europe launched a two-year project aimed at providing online access to their Jewish culture collections.
Israeli airstrikes hit a squad of Palestinian terrorists preparing to carry out an attack near the Karni crossing in northern Gaza.
World ORT is investing $12.6 million to install 400 "smart classrooms" throughout northern Israel.
The highest profile Jewish delegation ever to visit the African continent is in South Africa meeting with government leaders and local Jews.
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange formalized cooperation between the markets.
Palestinian families appealed to the United Nations to prevent the construction of a museum on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Yechezkel Besser, the "spiritual father" of the Polish Jewish revival, has died.
Charlie Wilson, the congressman who used his Israel connections in his bid to arm the Afghan resistance in the 1980s, has died.