Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Rally Against Iran Becomes Political Firestorm
A rally organized by the main Jewish umbrella organization to protest the scheduled visit of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations has turned into a political embarrassment. Senator Hillary Clinton canceled her attendance at the September 22 protest, upon learning that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin had been invited. The rally’s organizers then…
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News U.N. President To Dine With Ahmadinejad
The president of the United Nations General Assembly is expected to attend a dinner in New York organized by five American Christian organizations at which Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will be a featured guest. The G.A. president, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, is a Catholic priest from Nicaragua who is a vocal critic of the United States….
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News Broad-Based Coalition Seeks To Prevent a Nuclear Iran
In an effort to raise public awareness about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a new organization is being launched, with its own paid staff, to focus solely on the issue. The promoters of the group, which is called United Against Nuclear Iran, hope to replicate the Save Darfur Coalition, which has brought together liberals and hawks as…
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News Israel’s Military on Display in Georgia
When an Israeli-made drone was shot down over the Black Sea this past spring in the run-up to the war between Russia and Georgia, it brought to the forefront a recurrent Israeli dilemma: By exporting its military know-how, is Israel endangering its diplomatic standing? Israel’s military assistance to Georgia, including the doomed drone, thrust into…
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News Israel and Syria Keep Talking Indirectly, Now With Paris at the Helm
Earlier this month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western head of state in at least three years to visit Damascus, a symbolically significant step in Syria’s reintegration into the international community. Filling the diplomatic vacuum created by the Bush administration’s reluctance to engage with Syria, Sarkozy offered to sponsor direct peace talks between…
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News Former Aipac Head Leads Push for American-Syrian Rapprochement
Thomas Dine spent years transforming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee into a Washington powerhouse, but now he has embarked on a very different mission: building a bridge between the United States and Israel’s nemesis Syria. Dine is currently serving as the head of an American-Syrian working group set up early last year by the…
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News Jew-vs.-Jew Fight in Germany Reignites Debate on Anti-Zionism
In a case that has captivated Germany and reignited public debate on criticism of Israel and on antisemitism, a German court is expected to rule in early September on a defamation lawsuit brought by a prominent anti-Zionist against a well-known maverick columnist. The politically charged case pits Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, a staunch critic of Israel whose…
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News Obama Campaign Taps New Arab Outreach Director
A few weeks after Barack Obama’s first Arab-American outreach person resigned amid controversy over past connections to an imam, the campaign has tapped attorney Rashida Tlaib to be its outreach director in Michigan, where Tlaib just won a state primary, the Forward has learned. Ben LaBolt, an Obama campaign spokesman, confirmed the appointment for a…
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