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Open letter to professor gil troy

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By John Baglow

(source: Dawg’s Blawg)

Dear Professor Troy:

You have by now written two articles naming me personally, and have appeared before the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism to sing the same tune (with reference to me, at least by name, mercifully absent): the "new anti-Semitism," as opposed to the more recognizable Jew-hatred, is directed towards the state of Israel and its policies.

Rather than having the "courage of [your] convictions," you have defined me, a critic of the CPCCA, as an anti-Semite through innuendo and juxtaposition. (Or is that "a new anti-Semite?") You then have the chutzpah to wonder aloud why it is that critics of Israel such as I are concerned about a parliamentary "inquiry" that has all the earmarks of a witch-hunt.

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Egypt violates human rights mrn

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(source: VOCfm Online)

 

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61 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Egypt continues to pursue clearly discriminatory policies and practices and the violation of the human rights of its civilian population, including the Ikhwanul Muslimeen. So said Ibrahim Vauwda, senior researcher at the Media Review Network (MRN).

"The detention, torture and incarceration of 26 civilians accused of being members of Hizbollah and being tried in a military court is the latest in the long list of human rights violations by the Mubarak regime since coming to power some 28 years ago. In addition, in the Supreme State Security Emergency Court where they appeared, there is no right of appeal. They have also been denied access to their lawyers for six months," Vawda said in a statement on Monday.

According to MRN, Egypt’s "authoritarian and brutal regime which is the root-cause of its human rights violations must cease as demanded by its civilian population and international law. Without human rights and the rule of law there can be no justice, without justice there can be no peace." MRN has now called upon the regime of President Hosni Mubarak to facilitate a free, fair and just trial for the 26 detainees in a civilian court and that the Egyptian judiciary provide guarantees for the same. VOC

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