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Israel maintains that the purpose of the barrier is to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from entering the Jewish state and therefore conforms to the legal definition of “self-defense.” The Palestinian Authority contends that Israel is trying to exert control over lands occupied by Palestinians and to divide the Arab population currently living in the West Bank...
...Harvard Hillel last Thursday, 40 students stood witness to a break from the past 60 years of the Jewish organization’s history...
...France's schools, which close on Sundays and Christian holidays, purport to be secular, but in fact they are Christian schools, pressuring Jews to attend on Saturdays and telling Muslim girls not to cover their hair. If "small crucifixes" are O.K., then why not small head scarves or small Jewish skullcaps? Joseph A. Feld London...
...become realities? When do we see a law saying that society must open up to the same people it is ordering to integrate?" Those are hotly contested questions as the ban heads for final (and certain) passage by March 3. When the law to forbid Muslim head scarves, Jewish yarmulkes, "excessively oversized" Christian crucifixes and perhaps Sikh turbans was initially approved this month, Education Minister Luc Ferry promised it would stop "classrooms from being divided up into militant religious communities." Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
...Jewish people had waited for gentiles to stop being anti-Semitic, there wouldn’t be Jewish people,” Gates declares...