Friday, September 14, 2018, 12:00 p.m., The City Club of Cleveland
Ilan Pappé, Ph.D.
Since Israel's establishment in 1948, it has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. Zionists believe Judaism is both a nationality and a religion - and that the Jews deserve their own state in the historic land of Israel to protect themselves from future disaster. As the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians exceeds the half century mark, many are beginning to...
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Friday, July 20, 2018
by Richard Moon, Distinguished University Professor, University of Windsor “Newspapers across Europe reprinted cartoons Wednesday ridiculing the prophet Muhammad, saying they wanted to support the right of Danish and Norwegian papers to publish the caricatures, which have ignited fury among Muslims throughout the world.” Washington Post, Feb. 2, 2006 “Do I think Faith Goldy’s back story is commendable? No. Appearing on a neo-Nazi podcast and reciting slogans associated with Nazism is distasteful, destructive to healthy race relations and completely deserving of harsh criticism.” Lindsay Shepherd, Maclean’s magazine, March 22, 2018 discussing her decision to invite Goldy to speak on campus. The term free speech (or freedom of expression) is used in an increasingly... read on
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Torture -the use of violence to elicit information or punish individuals - is a practice that dates back to the Greeks and Romans. By the...
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