In the course of writing this blog, I’ve chronicled some really dumb moves by the Shin Bet. But their decision in arresting and deporting Norman Finkelstein from the country really takes the cake:
Finkelstein said he was asked whether he had met with Al Qaida operatives, whether he had been sent to Israel by Hezbollah [...]
The NY Times writes that a judge has rebuked the Justice Department for its refusal to decide whether to grant an entry visa to Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan:
A federal judge in New York yesterday ordered the Bush administration to decide by September whether to grant an entry visa to a prominent Muslim scholar. The scholar [...]
Tariq Ramadan (photo: Laurent Gillieron/European Pressphoto Agency)
Tariq Ramadan’s endless, Kafkaesque danse macabre with the Justice Department continued yesterday in a case brought by the ACLU on his behalf protesting the denial of a U.S. visa on grounds that he is a national security threat. I should correct that…the government has refused to say [...]
The NY Times reports that the ACLU is suing to enable Tariq Ramadan to enter the U.S. in order to participate in academic conferences here:
The ACLU asked a federal court in New York for a preliminary order to stop the administration from banning a prominent Swiss Muslim scholar from speaking in the United States. The [...]
Read full post...I’d like to turn Allan Bloom’s neoconservative rant against multi-culturalism, The Closing of the American Mind, on its head in this post about the Bush Administration’s war on foreign intellectuals who wish to teach or speak at American universities.
Many of us know about Tariq Ramadan’s horror story in being denied a visa to teach at [...]
I wrestle constantly with how to respond to the various haters who post comments here. The majority of them find my embrace of Israeli-Palestinian peace based on principles of a two state solution detestable, especially as I am Jewish. But I’ve also received hate comments from a Lieutenant in the armed forces who [...]
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