A Nov. 5 rally at the West Bank-based Al-Quds University that featured demonstrators from the Islamic Jihad flashing Nazi-like salutes resulted in Brandeis University recalling its faculty from a joint program.
A Palestinian Authority court sentenced a local journalist to a year in jail on Thursday over a picture posted on Facebook that was deemed insulting to Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli aircraft hit two Gaza media buildings on Sunday, wounding eight journalists and drawing concern from press covering the fighting between Palestinian militants and the Jewish state.
Israeli troops on the Syrian border and in Jerusalem remained on high alert as Palestinians prepared to mark Al-Quds Day. Al-Quds Day, observed by Arabs this year on Tuesday, marks Israel\’s capture of eastern Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked his regime\’s annual anti-Israel rallies by saying that the only path for the Palestinians is resistance, not peace talks.
On Al-Jazeera TV, Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University asserts — in Arabic — that Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital for over 3000 years. Available here for the first time with English subtitles.
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