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plained that the article was part of a campaign by Jewish reporters in
London to smear WikiLeaks. Assange told Hislop he should be ashamed of
himself for joining in the international conspiracy to smear WikiLeaks. He
claimed that the article was an obvious attempt to deprive him and his
organization of Jewish support and donations. When Hislop pointed out that
Rusbridger was not Jewish, Assange backtracked and said that Rusbridger
was ‘”sort of Jewish” because he and Leigh, who is Jewish, were brothersin-law.
Ottawa, March 3: Pro-Israel students at Carleton University say they were
harassed and intimidated by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA)
members after the group’s anti-Israel motion was shelved at a student council
meeting last month. “People were banging on the doors, screaming, calling
us names . . . We had to wait until campus [security] sent more officers
to make sure students could get safely from the council room out to the
elevators,” said Emile Scheffel, 21, a fourth-year political science student
who isn’t Jewish but is involved in the Israel Awareness Committee (IAC)
at Carleton.
London, March 10: “A few months ago,” recalls historian Ian Johnson, “I
observed a fatwa council meeting and heard a Syrian-born German speaker
explain the perceived moral lapses of young European Muslims by quoting
from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, believing that the antisemitic tract
was a reputable source. No one hooted him down; instead, his speech was
published as one of the council’s working papers.” (See Ian Johnson, “Our
Secret Connections with the Muslim Brotherhood,” The New York Review
of Books [March 10, 2011, 15]).
Jerusalem, March 13: The Simon Wiesenthal Center has labeled a neo-Nazi
march of approximately 1,000 participants held this past Friday in the heart
of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius “the worst type of antisemitic and xenophobic
incitement against Lithuania’s minorities” and harshly criticized the
failure of the country’s political, intellectual, and religious leadership to
condemn the march unequivocally. In a statement issued here today by its
Israel director, Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the center called
upon Lithuanian elected officials to denounce such demonstrations and
upon the leaders of the ruling Homeland Union party to sanction their MP,
Kazimieras Uoka, who was among the marchers.
Montreal, March 16: A McGill University student is under investigation by
police after he allegedly made death threats using his Twitter account. The
student, Haaris Khan, was watching a documentary screened by the Con-