24.5. Berlin: Die Iran-Krise - Berlin Middle East Talk mit Michael Rubin (Washington) und Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh (Berlin)

Factsheet: Globaler Marsch nach Jerusalem 2012

Audio und Video: Iran, Syrien, Hisbollah - Endspiel für die "Achse des Widerstands"? - Debatte mit Markus Bickel (FAZ) und Jörn Schulz (Jungle World)

Video: Richard Landes und Thierry Chervel diskutieren den "islamistischen Medienkrieg"

Arab Spring has washed the region's appalling racism out of the news

How many tracts, books, documentaries, speeches and doctoral theses have been written and produced about Islamophobia? How many denunciations have been made against the Sarkozys and the Le Pens and the Wilders for their anti-immigration (for which, read largely anti-Muslim) policies or – let us go down far darker paths – against the plague of Breivik-style racism? The problem with all this is that Muslim societies – or shall we whittle this down to Middle Eastern societies? – are allowed to appear squeaky-clean in the face of such trash, and innocent of any racism themselves.

The anarchy factor in Syria

The compelling moral case for a humanitarian intervention is increasingly being reinforced by sound raisons d’état. Furthermore, military or semi-military intervention is not the only option on the table. As the sanctions imposed on Iran outside the Security Council clearly show, effective action can be taken to tilt the balance and end the deadly stalemate in Syria. The current preference for inaction, while perhaps understandable, threatens to lead to precisely the outcomes that its advocates want to avoid.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Mendacious Charm Campaign

Yet the Brotherhood came to Washington with an agenda of its own: selling itself as a “moderate” organization to a highly skeptical American public. And it did so using one of the oldest sales tricks: It completely misrepresented itself.

Time to Stop Incitement to Murder -- Again

This week, after a young rabbi and three children were shot to death at a Jewish school in France, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas cabled condolences to French president Nicolas Sarkozy. In that brief cable, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abbas claimed that he always absolutely opposed any killing of civilians. And yet, just a few weeks ago, Abbas held a meeting in Turkey to honor the Palestinian prisoner, released by Israel as part of the Gilad Shalit deal, who had used the internet to lure an Israeli high school boy to his terrorist murderers last year.

Syria: Armed Opposition Groups Committing Abuses

Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today in a public letter to the Syrian National Council (SNC) and other leading Syrian opposition groups. Abuses include kidnapping, detention, and torture of security force members, government supporters, and people identified as members of pro-government militias, called shabeeha. Human Rights Watch has also received reports of executions by armed opposition groups of security force members and civilians.

EU-Diplomatie: Mit toten Kindern gegen Israel

Der Chef der SPD spricht im Zusammenhang mit Israel von einem Apartheidsregime, der iranische Präsident Ahmadinedschad leugnet im deutschen Fernsehen den Holocaust – und die EU-Außenbeauftragte Ashton missbraucht die Opfer des Anschlags auf eine jüdische Schule in Frankreich, um Israel auf die Ebene des Staatsterrorismus zu ziehen. Europa – ganz alt.