After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner, Jodi Rudoren - August 27, 2012 - 12:00am Palestinian student who speaks accentless Hebrew after years in a bilingual school that is about half Jewish, said he was not at all surprised when a mob of Jewish teenagers beat an Arab teenager unconscious this month while hundreds watched and did nothing to help. |
Court Rules Israel Wasn’t at Fault in U.S. Activist’s Death
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jodi Rudoren, Danielle Ziri - August 28, 2012 - 12:00am Rachel Corrie, the young American woman who was run over by a military bulldozer in 2003 as she protested housing demolitions in the Gaza Strip. The lengthy verdict in the civil case, read to a courtroom packed with supporters of Ms. Corrie’s family here, called the death an accident that occurred during “a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity.” |