Links for May 8th

Links from my del.icio.us account for May 8th:

• allAfrica.com: Egypt: TV Agency Boss Facing Charges Over Food Riots, Harassed for Links With Al-Jazeera (Page 1 of 1) - Broadcaster charged over footage of 6 April riots


• Judaism is universal, by Eric Rouleau - Famed French journo on Avraham Burg's new book


• Egypt: bread riots and mill strikes, by Joel Beinin - Monde Diplomatique article on labor unrest in Egypt (subs)


• Chair (A Dream): Poetry: The New Yorker - A poem by Adonis


• Jackson Diehl - War of the Rockets - washingtonpost.com - Stupid, stupid op-ed which casts Israel as victim forced to kill children, even when Hamas rockets have not done much damage


• Where Alaa Al Aswany Is Writing From - NYT profile of bestselling Egyptian writer


• Selling the War with Iran - The Washington Note - Nir Rosen slams WaPo, Kagan, other DC wonks for so-called expertise and complete devotion to imperial thinking


• Comment nos regimes arabes modernisent… l’autoritarisme Par Hicham Ben Abdellah El Alaoui | e-Joussour - Morocco's Moulay Hisham on the modernisation of Arab authoritarianism


• An Iranian's vision of Jesus' life stirs debate - Los Angeles Times - Film shows Islamic version of Jesus as prophet but not Messiah


• Outrage Rises at U.N. Over Libya’s Disruptive Presence On Security Council - Forward.com" - Israel and Libya clash in UN Security Council


• We Weren’t Always United by Indissoluble Bonds - Forward.com" - Michael Oren on Jewish-Americans and Israel

Comments

[Nadia]

The rise of Nazism might have spurred American Jews to greater Zionist activism, but the increase in Depression-era antisemitism and the reluctance of American Jews to pressure a popular president acted as counterweights. Roosevelt did nothing to challenge Britain’s decision to close Palestine to Jewish immigration in 1939, effectively dooming European Jewry, and American Jews did little to push him.

The US and Canada also refused to accept Jewish refugees, I wonder why he didn't mention that...