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Shoa Business News - `Miss Holocaust`

"This is one step short of `Survivor-Holocaust’ or `Big Brother Auschwitz.’ It leaves a bad taste. Holocaust survivors should be above all this" - Gal Mor, editor of the popular Israeli blog Holes in the Net

(LONDON) - The Huffington Post reported yesterday that “Hava Hershkovitz, 79, was crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ at a pageant held in Israel on Thursday.”

Protest Draws Attention to Plight of Eelam Tamil Detainees in Tamil Nadu

Protest outside Indian High Commission, India Place, London, WC2B 4NA, on 3rd of July between 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

(LONDON) - They call it, 'India's Guantanamo'; members of the May Seventeen movement are reaching out to improve their status as disconnected refugees.

The Tamil Coordinating Committee has issued a news release calling attention to a hunger strike and quest for justice on behalf of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees.

UN Tribunal Finds Ethics Office Failed to Protect Whistleblower

Ban has sought to curb the tribunal's jurisdiction but has so far been unsuccessful.

(LONDON Guardian UK) - A landmark case brought by a former UN employee against Ban Ki-moon, casts light on what activists describe as a pervasive culture of impunity in an organisation where whistleblowers are given minimal protection.

James Wasserstrom was sacked and detained by UN police after he raised suspicions in 2007 about corruption in the senior ranks of the UN mission in Kosovo

Perpetual Peace

In My Ego and Me, the haunting but surprisingly un-despairing figures are foregrounded by an empty boat with four white oars.

(BEER-SHIVA, Israel) - Last year I gave the Israeli artist Amir Nave an old Hebrew copy of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, which I teach every so often in my Introduction to Political Theory class.

U.S Wants an Action Plan on Sri Lanka

The United States says the government has to have an action plan that deals with reconciliation issues.

(COLOMBO Gazette) - During a live video online chat with journalists from around the world including Sri Lanka, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner said that as far as the U.S is concerned there is a big unfinished agenda in Sri Lanka.

“We are going to continue to raise those issues with the government,” Posner said...

Those Damn Palestinians

Those damn Palestinians insist on sharing their cultural resistance with artists around the globe and repeatedly inviting other communities to join in solidarity

(RAMALLAH, Palestine) - Those damn Palestinians. They refuse to sit still. They just don’t get it. They are unable to fathom their reality.

The more outrageous their situation becomes, the more human they become. When all the powers-to-be thought that they had sufficiently battered (or bought) Palestinians into full political submission, Palestinians embarked on yet another act of terrorism—the terror of dance, music, song, and cultural celebration.

Sweet and Sour: China`s General Tso Economy... A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Free Enterprise

Sell when everyone is avidly buying; buy when everyone is despondently selling. - Sir John Templeton

(SASKATCHEWAN) - I'm old enough to remember when Shanghai and Beijing (nee Peking) were medieval towns centering 400 million people living principally off imperial largesse and rice paddies.

They were interlaced with earnest missionaries, including the liberating diplomats, hustlers and gunboats from Britain, France, the U.S., Germany and Russia...

Time to Abandon Never-Ending Futile Talks with Israel

It is time for the Palestinian National Authority to abandon its commitment to the pointless perpetual negotiations with the Israelis.

(LONDON) - It has been more than 20 years since the Madrid talks and the peace process between the Palestinians and the Israelis started.

Thus far their abject failure has surprised even the most pessimistic of observers.

Did a Ghost Crawl Inside My Laptop?

Sri Lanka war crime victim's spirit seems restless over involuntary death pose.

(SALEM) - Having your life and dignity ripped away by heartless militant thugs with orders to kill kill... that is exactly what happened to Isaipriya Veeravanakkam and tens of thousands of minority Tamil Hindus and Christians in Sri Lanka only three years ago.

Would Jesus Merely Finger a Child Rapist?

And other theological reflections in a time of confusion.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Some of my readers are upset that I ran this image of Jesus, below, as part of a recent article about the conviction of catholic bishop William Lynn, who spent decades helping priests in Philadelphia torture and rape children.

I agree with my critics. This is hardly an accurate portrayal of Jesus.