civil society under attack in name of counterterrorism
UNITED NATIONS: Counterterrorism measures are not only affecting extremist groups, but are also impacting a crucial sector for peace and security in the world: civil society. . ..…
netanyahu facing greater ultra-orthodox political appetite
With 16 seats in Knesset, ultra-Orthodox bloc is third in size after Likud's 35 seats and Blue and White's 35. ... This clause would enable Knesset to override Supreme Court's objections to some laws, including the amendment exempting ultra-Orthodox youths from the draft. ..…
there’s one far-right movement that hates the kremlin – foreign
On May 21, 2013, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, a man known in France as a “nationalist extremist” and a “militant populist with a violent past,” walked into the 12th-century cathedral, stood next to the altar, pulled out a revolver, and shot himself. . ..…
republicans resisting democratic efforts to limit exemptions from
Outbreaks in six states include hundreds of cases in ultra-Orthodox communities in Brooklyn and Rockland County, N.Y. ..…
rami younis
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians living near extremist settlements have been seeing a drastic increase in violence. ... The attacks, once referred to as “price tag attacks,” are committed by extremist Jewish youth from settlements and outposts across the West Bank. ..…
indonesia’s jokowi handily defeats contender prabowo – asia
An ultra-nationalist, he repeatedly criticized the government for infrastructure projects that he said don’t benefit people. ..…
gideon polya: pro-apartheid israel australian labor party scraps
When in 2017 former PM Malcolm Turnbull of the less extremist faction of the Liberal Party lavishly welcomed nuclear terrorist, genocidal racist and serial war criminal Apartheid Israeli PM Netanyahu to Australia, 60 variously eminent Australians protested thus (2017): “Australia should not..…
war versus peace: israel has decided and so should we
Now the stage is wide open for the ultra-orthodox parties, Shas, and United Torah Judaism, with seven seats to help define the new Israel.. ..…
how left "anti-zionism" fed an antisemitic ferment
The welter of empty phrasemongering and senseless ultra-left sloganising in which Brenner's Socialist Organiser contribution indulges has so little grip on reality that you are naturally inclined just to shrug and get on with the real discussion of the real issues. . ... Brenner relies on..…
antivax parents sue over mandatory vaccination order in new york
In any case, while the outbreak is believed to have originated among New York’s Orthodox Jewish community, the vast majority of rabbis and others there are strongly pro-vaccine—with the Times and BuzzFeed News pointing instead in part to a dedicated fringe group of antivaxxers, backed by national antivax..…
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