27 Aug 2008 | News, United Kingdom
UK political blog Harry’s Place may be removed by webhost Daily.co.uk after a complaint from an academic whom it claimed had posted links to neo-Nazi articles in an online debate.
The blog published a comment made by Sheffield-based UCU activist Jenna Delich in an online discussion of a potential boycott of Israel by the union, in which she linked to, and appeared to endorse, an article posted on the website of American far-right politician David Duke. Harry’s Place has been consistently critical of any suggestion that Israeli academics should be boycotted by their British counterparts.
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12 Aug 2008 | Middle East and North Africa, News
An Arab-Israeli publisher has been ordered to stop importing Arabic-language books from Syria and Lebanon. Salah Abassi gave an interview to Israeli public radio on 11 August in which he stated that the Trade and Industry Ministry had ‘warned’ him that his actions were illegal. Abassi claims that Arabic translations of certain books such as the Harry Potter series can only be sourced from Lebanon or Syria. The ban is based on a decree issued under the British mandate, which forbids the importing of books from hostile nations.
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14 Jul 2008 | Middle East and North Africa, News
Afaq TV, a Palestinian commercial TV station based in Nablus, was closed by Israeli soldiers yesterday for one year on the grounds that it was ‘terrorist’ media. ‘We are an independent media and, regardless of what the Israeli military says, we have never given our allegiance to any political movement,’ argued Afaq TV director, Issa Abu el Izz. The entrance to the station was sealed up, and the station has been forced to stop broadcasting.
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10 Jul 2008 | Comment, United Kingdom
The legal row between a UK blog and a Muslim activist could be a landmark case, writes Padraig Reidy
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