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To: philv who wrote (15176)	5/16/2007 8:09:43 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

RIGHT WING JEWS RECRUIT CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION TO MUZZLE CAMPUSES MUZZLE WATCH - The US Commission on Civil Rights has launched a campaign against anti-Semitism on campuses that appears to dwarf in importance its other traditional activities like reporting on housing and voter discrimination. According to Commission head Kenneth Marcus, "Usually, we'll write a report, but in this case, we needed to get the word out," because students aren't sufficiently aware of their rights. The result? An unprecedented campaign developed and or implemented with partners including the American Jewish Congress, the Zionist Organization of America, campus Hillels, the Anti-Defamation League, Israel on Campus Coalition, and others, involving the internet, print posters and postcards sent to college campuses across the country. Back in April, 2006, Ron Kampeas of the JTA wrote: The effort by an alliance of Jewish groups to hold government-funded Middle East studies departments accountable took two strides forward in recent weeks: one legislative and one moral. Congress came a step closer to a mechanism that would monitor how Middle East Studies departments spend federal money, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an advisory body, found that anti-Israeli activism could engender a hostile atmosphere for Jews on campus. A number of right-wing Israel advocacy groups have long targeted federal funding for Middle East Studies, charging that federal funds are being used to support what they call anti-American and anti-Israeli professors. . . muzzlewatch.org

To: philv who wrote (15176)	5/17/2007 5:40:50 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

A pro-American Socialist to become Sarkozy’s foreign minister ? By Joseph Byron Updated: 14/May/2007 PARIS (EJP)---President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy, who will officially enter the Elysée Palace in Paris on Wednesday, may choose a Socialist as foreign minister in the new government. Bernard Kouchner, a former Socialist minister, founder of the “Doctors Without Borders” association and a former UN special representative in Kosovo, was said on Monday to be the “best” choice of Sarkozy for the Quai d’Orsay, the French foreign ministry. The rightist new President, who won the presidential election against his Socialist rival Ségolène Royal, has approached several figures from the left as part of his scheme to forge a slimmed-down 15-member government that will be politically inclusive and not limited to his Union for a Popular Movement or UMP party. On Sunday reports surfaced that Sarkozy was considering offering the foreign ministry to Hubert Védrine, a former Socialist foreign minister under the premiership of Lionel Jospin, raising concern among French Jews and in Israeli diplomatic circles, as he is known for his anti-Israeli and anti-American views. But according to the latest unconfirmed reports on Monday, Sarkozy has proposed the post of foreign minister to Kouchner who is said to be “ready to enter the upcoming government,” according to the leftist daily Libération. Kouchner, who is born to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, is close to rightist Jewish MP Pierre Lellouche, Sarkozy's advisor on international issues. Atlanticist The 67-year-old former Socialist health minister, who is married to [Jewish] tv journalist Christine Ockrent, is one of the rare French politicians who pronounced himself in favour of the US intervention in Iraq and is considered as an Atlanticist. During the recent presidential electoral campaign Kouchner called on the Socialist party to move toward the center and criticized the French left for not adapting itself to the changing world. In another development, Arno Klarsfeld, son of Nazi-hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, has been rumored to be the top candidate to become minister of immigration and national identity in the new cabinet which is likely to be headed by François Fillon, 53, a close advisor to Sarkozy and former government social affairs minister. Born in France, Klarsfeld, a 41-year-old lawyer, undertook in the last two years several missions on behalf of Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister. He drew up a report on the expulsion of illegal immigrants and helped negotiate a deal to end protests by homeless campaigners. Klarsfeld acquired Israeli citizenship in 2002 and made his military service in the Israeli border police. ejpress.org