Category Archives: World
«Personne n’est Kenya?»
Tribune libre de Marc Knobel, Historien, directeur des etudes du CRIF, membre du conseil éditorial de la Revue Civique La ville de Garissa, vous connaissiez? Probablement pas. Read more » »
#JeSuisKenyan
Le B’nai B’rith France condamne fermement l’odieuse attaque terroriste menée jeudi 2 avril contre l’Université kényane de Garissa et qui a fait 148 victimes Un commando islamiste somalien appartenant au groupe Shabab, a pris d’assaut jeudi 2 avril Read more » »
UNESCO launches social media campaign to end „cultural cleansing”
Report from Stéphane TEICHERUNESCO Director General Irina Bokova launched on March 28, in the Faculty of Arts of the Bagdad University, a strong campaign aiming at responding to the cultural cleansing which is spreading in many Middle East countries. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Condemns Horrific Attacks on Kenyan University Students
(Photo: Ben Curtis AP) B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement: The horrific murders of 147 people in Kenya, most of them Christian college students, are a frightening reminder of the dangers of Islamic extremism. Read more » »
Changemakers honoured
THE Cricket World Cup final didn’t stop more than 150 people attending B’nai B’rith and JNF’s Jewish Changemakers Awards at the B’nai B’rith Centre on Sunday, March 29. This year saw 78 nominations from NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia vying for awards in the youth and young adult categories. Read more » »
Once unifying, religious freedom laws have become divisive
In the span of a week, legislation aimed at protecting individual religious freedoms — adopted by a near unanimous Congress more than two decades ago and present in 20 states — went from benign measures with broad support to being attacked as a new „license to discriminate. Read more » »
14 De Abril Encontro Com Carlos Brickmann Na B’nai B’rith
CARLOS BRICKMANN De 1963 até hoje, para usar uma frase clássica de Octavio Frias de Oliveira, vi tudo acontecer, e ao contrário também. Vi a Marcha da Família e, aos 19 anos de idade, editei o material na Folha de S.Paulo; vejo agora as manifestaçőes antigovernamentais e escrevo sobre elas em diversos jornais, em colunas assinadas. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Dismayed EU Conference Diluting Focus On Anti-Semitism
The European Union started Passover on a sour note, announcing that the much-anticipated upcoming conference on combating rising anti-Semitism in Europe will not share equal billing with Islamophobia. Read more » »
Pursuing protection for religious freedom not discriminatory
If you wanted Arkansas House Bill 1228 to allow businesses to avoid serving gay people, you might just be a redneck. Read more » »
EU rights conference to give equal billing to anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred
Jewish organizations worldwide expressed shock and dismay over the weekend following the announcement that the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency is planning on holding a conference that implies an equivalence between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Read more » »
