http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:49:14 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:49:14 Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]

BERLIN (AP) -- Former SS sergeant Adolf Storms lived in Germany unnoticed for more than six decades after World War II until an Austrian university student last year came across his name while researching a 1945 massacre of Jewish forced laborers.

The student gave... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/90 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:02:55 In 1955, Fred Phelps headed the first service of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Since then, the church has become internationally famous for hatred and anti-gay protests.

Less of a church and more of a cult, this hate organization has been defined by its protests at the funerals of f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/89 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:10:08 Source: [b]AP[/b]

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- The world's smallest deer, a flying frog and catfish that stick to rocks - as well as more than 350 other species - have been discovered over the past decade in the Himalayas, making it one of the world's most biologically rich regions, an environmental gro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/88 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:28:42 Source: [b]Ha'aretz[/b]

A journalist from Holland who linked Jews to the recent outbreak of flu pandemics drew heavy criticism from a prominent Dutch Jewish organization earlier this week, that claimed her words were tantamount to anti-Semitic blood libels.

Holland's largest daily, De Telegraf ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/85 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:20:00 When the Six-Day War ended and Israelis began streaming to the West Bank, members of the Molchadsky-Wolfson family from Jerusalem decided to visit Hebron. Thirty eight years earlier, the family had fled from that city following the massacre of Hebron's Jewish residents.

Yonah Molchadsky had give... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/87 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:15:29 Source: [b]CBS[/b]

Survivors of the Granada Hills Jewish community center attack, as well as the family of a slain letter carrier, gathered Monday to remember the 10th anniversary of the violence.

The attack on North Valley Jewish Community Center and the slaying of U.S. postal worker Joseph Ile... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/86 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:07:50 See also:

[link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzlQ5ryVHYs&feature=related|LGBT support DC]

and

[link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutUZlCFy-4&feature=related|Berlin solidarity with LGBT Tel Aviv - Demo against homophobia]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/84 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:16:38 Source: [b]Ha'aretz[/b]

Twenty thousand demonstrators or more gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square Saturday night in a rally to show solidarity with Israel's gay community, including the victims shot at a TA center for gay and lesbian youth a week ago, which left two dead and a dozen wounded.

Pr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/83 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:09:02 "[i]Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the “wrong kind of person” for me t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/82 Tue, 26 May 2009 16:24:16 [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/sceneB4/073a.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/sceneB4/075a.jpg[/IMG]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/81 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:06:18 Source: [b]Ha'aretz[/b]

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen is planning to relocate Yemen's Jews from the Amran district and the city of Raidah to the capital, Sana, where each Jewish family will receive a plot of land. The rabbi of the Jewish community, Yehi Yaish, told the independent Yemenite ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/80 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:40:06 On Monday, Dec. 1, the UK Telegraph reported statements by doctors who examined the bodies of those killed in the Mumbai massacre. "Many of the bodies showed signs of torture," they said, one going on to explain that "of all the bodies, the Israeli victims [clarified elsewhere in the article to mean... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/79 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:08:34 Drinking and politics have gone together in the United States since long before Andrew Johnson stumbled drunk through his Vice Presidential inauguration speech in 1865.

This year, at the end of the most-covered election in history, where countless millions have willingly overdosed on election co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/78 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:28:43 Source: [b]Ha'aretz[/b]

A new poll commissioned by researchers at New York University reveals that American Jews favor Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama over his Republic rival, John McCain, by a 67 ? 33 percent margin.

The survey, which sampled the opinions of over 3,000 respond... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/77 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:22:38 Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish feelings are rising in several major European countries, according to a worldwide survey released on Wednesday.

The Washington-based Pew Research Center's global attitude survey found that most Muslims in countries where they are in the majority worry about the rise o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/76 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:20:08 When, in 2003, the veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell described the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair as being influenced by a "Jewish cabal," he was roundly condemned for making what many saw as an obviously antisemitic remark. Some, though, sought to justify his comment as a legitimate, if poorly-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/75 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:42:12 Think rainbow colors, funky music and dancing in the streets -the annual Gay Pride Parade will once again be giving the streets some glamor on June 6.


Think rainbow colors, funky music and dancing in the streets -the annual Gay Pride Parade, now in its tenth year, will once again be lending ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/74 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:25:43 Source: [b]Ha'aretz[/b]

WINNIPEG - Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit a record high in 2007, according to a recently released report by the League of Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada.

The group recorded 1,042 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in 2007, up 11.4% since 2006. A 59.1% increase wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/73 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:32:38 Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahrain's king has appointed a woman believed to be the Arab world's first Jewish ambassador as the country's envoy to Washington.

Lawmaker Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve her country "first of all as a Bahraini," adding she was not... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/72 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:52:04 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he will “cut off the head” of any homosexual caught in his country.

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Jammeh also ordered any hotel or motel housing homosexuals to close down, adding that owners of such facilities would also be in trouble.

He said the Gambia was a country of be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/71 Fri, 23 May 2008 00:28:00 Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]

BADEN-BADEN, Germany - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.

It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic wi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/70 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:24:39 Not content just to “Hijack Human Rights” in the so-called U.N. Human Rights Council, now it’s proposed to hijack anti-semitism.


Diplomats preparing for a U.N. conference on racism sparred over definitions of anti-Semitism.

The 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Afric... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/69 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:53:55 MIAMI BEACH (CBS4) ―
Federal, state and local police on Wednesday are investigating a fire that damaged a Miami Beach Jewish community center during Passover. The Chabad Shul, located at 2401 Pinetree Dr., was vandalized early Tuesday and its Torah stolen.

FBI Dir. Robert Mueller said to ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/68 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:49:02 In the latest attack targeting Yemen's few remaining Jews, rebel Houthi militiamen destroyed several homes that had belonged to the now-absent Jewish community in the northwestern Saada province.

"The Houthis destroyed part of my house and looted it," Rabbi Yehia Youssuf told Reuters in the capi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/67 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:27:23 The jihad has a problem with the Jews.

Not just a problem with Israel. Not just the occupation. Not just the policies of the Israeli government, the actions of the Israel Defense Forces, the support by Washington and the West for Israel's embargo against Hamas-ruled Gaza.

Islamists don't car... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/66 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:49:50