Chinese human rights lawyer – family flees China

Geng He, the wife and children of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who disappeared one month ago, probably at the hands of Chinese security thugs, have fled to the United States, AP reports.
Lots more on this story at Radio Free Asia.
Geng said her daughter, 15, and son, 5, had suffered “great hardship” in China from [...]

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U Win Tin celebrates birthday as a free man…

…for the first time in 20 years, according to Democratic Voice of  Burma.
“Recently released National League for Democracy leader Win Tin is celebrating his birthday today for the first time as a free man in 20 years.
Win Tin turns 79 today, and will share his birthday with imprisoned NLD vice-chairman Tin Oo, who is 82, [...]

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Anne Bayefsky on Obama and Durban II

Anne Bayefsky is always must-reading. Always. Here, she writes at Pajamas Media on the lamentable Navi Pillay and the movement to whitewash the bizarre and loathsome conference known as Durban I, for the sake of getting the US to attend the sequel, Durban II. Pillay is runs something called the UN Human Rights Commission, which [...]

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History’s oldest hatred

At the Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby has a column on history’s oldest hatred – anti-Semitism.
“Many Jews are no saints, but the paranoid frenzy that is anti-Semitism is not explained by what Jews do, but by what they are. They are the object of anti-Semitism, not its cause. That is why the haters’ rationales can be [...]

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Riad Seif is dying in a Syrian prison…

While the Obama administration makes noises about some sort of rapprochement with the Assad government. The LA Times reports that Mr. Seif is on his deathbed. He is suffering from cancer and has been in prison for a year for attending a meeting of pro-democracy groups.
Instead of being received in polite society, Assad should be [...]

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… And in Belgium: 3 Jewish youths attacked

YNet News has the story.
"Belgium is one of the more problematic countries when it comes to anti-Israel sentiment, which peaked during the Gaza offensive," Hermon said. "There are more anti-Semitic incidents in Belgium than in any other western European country."
“The Jewish Agency official attributed the rise in Belgian anti-Semitism to a "joint effort on [...]

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Meanwhile in Sweden…

If there is a solution to the problem of anti-Semitism it is not going to be found  in Sweden.

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Bringing Jews and Muslims together

Marc Schneier has a column at the JPost on efforts to improve relations between Jews and Muslims, led by people of each faith.
“Islamic leaders have an obligation to help prevent the toxic spreading of anti-Semitism among the Muslim masses. More leaders must follow in the footsteps of the courageous Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the [...]

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Alarming news from Geneva

This is very disturbing. The UN “Human Rights” Commission is known to be a hotbed of anti-Semitism, essentially run by Islamist thugs for the sole purpose of denigrating and attacking Israel. But the Financial Post (Toronto) reports that at a meeting chaired by Canada, Canada’s top diplomat at the UN in Geneva cut off a [...]

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The war against the Antisemites

Michael Ledeen has an interesting column on the Book of Esther. I particularly liked this bit:
“It reminds me of one of Golda Meir’s bons mots.  She was once asked how Israel managed to defeat enemies who vastly outnumbered the Jews.  “There are two ways,” she replied.  “There’s the natural way, and the miraculous way.  The [...]

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