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Ten Reasons Why I Support Alan Dershowitz... Not

Let’s review Dershowitz’ ten arguments against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

(NEW YORK) - Ethnic cleansing enthusiast Alan Dershowitz is unhappy with the current BDS efforts (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel).

Earlier today Haaretz published Dershowitz’ diatribe on the BDS. For the first time, I have to admit, I agree with the elder Zionist mouthpiece.

Petition Sent to Israeli Supreme Court About Circumcision

Over 35,000 Support Mother Who Resists Court Order to Circumcise Son.

(BOSTON) - The Jewish Circumcision Resource Center, representing Jews around the world who question circumcision and choose not to circumcise their sons, submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court.

It supports a mother who wants to forgo circumcision and has over 35,000 signatures.

TNA Calls for International Probe Into Mannar Mass Grave as Toll Soars to 59

The skeletons recovered so far have been locked in boxes and preserved at Mannar hospital...

(COLOMBO JDS Lanka) - Sri Lanka’s major Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance on Wednesday called for an independent international probe into the Mannar mass grave.

The skeletal remains of people dug out from the grave site has risen to 59 by Tuesday, amid fears that it could well contain the remains of thousands of Tamil people who were made to disappear...

Stone Cold Justice

"When we see settlers attacking a Palestinian, our orders are not to intervene." - former IDF soldier Yehuda Eshal of Breaking the Silence

(MELBOURNE) - The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force. But now the country's military is facing a backlash at home and abroad for its treatment of children in the West Bank, occupied territory.

Coming up, a joint investigation by Four Corners and The Australian newspaper reveals evidence that shows the army is targeting Palestinian boys for arrest and detention.

Burma Urged to Drop Census Questions on Ethnicity, Religion

After the last census in 1983, the military regime reported that Muslims constituted 4 percent of the population in the Buddhist-majority country, but this percentage may not be accurate.

(RANGOON) - The International Crisis Group (ICG) is urging the Burma government and the United Nations to amend the country’s nationwide census survey.

Targeted at influencing the way Muslims participate in the process, the census includes questions described as “needlessly antagonistic and divisive.”

Holocaust Hullabaloo: Another MP Intimidated

The idea that Israel’s murderous oppression of the Palestinians should be given the same prominence in British schools as the Shoah did not go down well.

(LONDON) - The Holocaust teacher would benefit from becoming a Nakba student for a few days.

She could learn about the Israelis’ evil Matrix of Control, their theft of Palestinian resources, their strangulation of the Palestinian economy, their frequent air-strikes, the midnight raids of their snatch-squads, their imprisonment of children, their blocking of food, medical and building supplies...

`Resolution Counterproductive` Hakeem Tells UNHRC Member SA

Anti-Sri Lankan move in Geneva: US woos Japan, South Korea.

(COLOMBO) - The US is pushing two of Sri Lanka’s major investors, Japan and South Korea.

They are being asked to throw their weight behind a third resolution against Sri Lanka at the forthcoming session of Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Romania President Basescu Asked to Resign on Discriminatory Roma Remarks

Romania's Roma community is said to be the biggest in Europe.

(RENO) - Romanian President Traian Basescu has been reportedly found guilty of discriminatory remarks about Roma (Gypsy) population by country’s official National Council for Combating Discrimination and now Hindus want him to resign.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, said that Basescu had no moral standing to continue in the government after making such disparaging remarks about a major group of the population.

UN - From `Complicity with Evil` to `Dancing with Devils`

The UN failed to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says.

(NEW YORK) - A massive genocide has taken place in Tamil Eelam (Island of Srilanka) and it still does not have its rightful attention in the international arena.

If Media's role was the biggest learning from the Rwanda's tragedy, it is high time we used this Media in its highest cause, by swerving the International attention towards giving hope to another human soul.

Journalist`s Death a Sign of Sri Lanka`s Brutalisation?

Many cannot believe she is no longer with us.

(COLOMBO) - One of Sri Lanka's most prominent journalists, Mel Gunasekera, was stabbed to death in her home, on Sunday. Although this death does not appear to have been politically motivated, Sri Lankans have reacted by lamenting what they say is the "brutalised" nature of their country.

To wake up to the news that a friend has been murdered is shocking.