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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Groups launch campus program
A pro-Israel campus initiative launched a fellowship program.
Caravan for Democracy will select two fellows from 15 campuses for a two-day retreat in New York City to help them establish an agenda for their campuses. More information is available at www.caravanfordemocracy.org. Caravan for Democracy is a joint project of the Jewish National Fund, Media Watch International and Hamagshimim.
Iowa Jews protest forum
Jewish groups in Iowa are protesting a local conference that they say features virulently anti-Israel speakers.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Des Moines says Presbyterian leaders should distance themselves from the views expressed by the speakers at the Oct. 14-15 conference at Coe College. Among the speakers are the chief theologian of the Sabeel Liberation Theology Center of Jerusalem, Rev. Naim Ateek, who has likened Israelis to Christ-killers, the JCRC said.
Israeli Arabs meet U.N. rep
Israeli Arabs met with a U.N. human rights representative.
Hina Jilani, sent by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to report on the situation in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, visited the office of the Arab Association for Human Rights in Nazareth this week. Jilani heard complaints from several Israeli Arab lobbies regarding what they consider racial discrimination in the Jewish state. According to the lobbyists, the Arab minority’s options of staging protests in Israel are limited by security laws. Israeli Arabs have vowed to increase international scrutiny of their situation since the Justice Ministry found last month that there was not enough evidence to press charges against police who shot 13 Arabs dead during pro-Palestinian riots in 2000.
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