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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Palestinian funding bill clears committee
The Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act cleared the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee.
The act, which would cut off funding to the Palestinian Authority and severely restrict funding to the Palestinians, was due for a vote by the full House this week when the Judiciary Committee exercised its option to review the bill because its visa provisions fall under the committee’s purview.
The committee approved the bill in a voice vote Wednesday, toughening a provision that extends a ban on Palestinian offices in the United States to the U.N. mission in New York.
However, President Bush can waive the ban for six months at a time.
Mideast conflict hits N.Y. school
Critics protested a daylong session on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a New York City private school.
Jewish activists rallied Tuesday outside the keynote session at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School because they believed the session, which featured anti-Zionist professors Rashid Khalidi and Tony Judt, was biased against Israel.
The day also featured a dozen other sessions with several Jewish journalists and liberal Jewish voices.
In a letter addressed to Fieldston´s principal, John Love, Rabbi Avi Weiss, who pulled out of one of the sessions, called the final panel “so profoundly tilted against Israel that it renders your entire program a deep disservice to your students in intellectual, educational and moral terms,” the New York Sun reported.
The school released a statement that read, in part, “Our institution has a long tradition of exploring complex subjects, and this day is in that tradition.”
The school had canceled a previous Mideast day after parents complained that the line-up appeared biased against Israel.
Australian politician slams anti-Israel media bias
An Australian legislator criticized two television stations over what she called bias in their coverage of Israel.
Connie Fierravanti-Wells said that she was made aware of the “anti-Jewish, anti-U.S. slant that some broadcasters relish in adopting” after she visited Israel last year on a trip run by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council’s Rambam Israel Fellowship Program, the Australian Jewish News reported.
She added that stations ABC and SBS often “tell only one side of the story.” The senator made the remarks last week at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney.
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