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Duke University is hosting a Palestinian solidarity conference Friday organized by a group that refuses to condemn terrorism, urges the flooding of Israel with millions of Palestinian refugees to dissolve its Jewish character, and calls on the public to divest from Israel. The Palestinian Solidarity Movement, allied with the controversial International Solidarity Movement, an organization that openly supports Hamas and calls for the destruction of Israel, is holding its conference to "put pressure on the Israeli government, partly by urging universities to sell their stock in companies with military ties to Israel."

Mel Gibson hits back at 'vicious' critics of Christ film By in New York (Filed: 09/09/2003) Mel Gibson turned on critics of his film The Passion, about Jesus Christ, over claims that it is anti-Semitic but his language has ignited a new controversy. The Australian-born actor and director said he was the target of "vehement anti-Christian sentiment" but admitted that the row over his £16 million self-financed film was good publicity. In one of a series of inflammatory remarks quoted in this week's The New Yorker, Gibson accuses "modern secular Judaism" of trying "to blame the Holocaust on the Roman...

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(Los Angeles-AP) -- U.S. authorities say a Saudi consular official and Muslim leader is suspected of having terrorist links, so they deported him. The official (Fahad al Thumairy) has been living in Southern California. He was detained at Los Angeles International Airport this week after arriving from Frankfurt. He was deported Thursday, and authorities say he may not return to the United States for five years. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security says he was placed on a flight headed to Saudi Arabia. But officials wouldn't provide details on his alleged terrorist connections. The 31-year-old had worked for...

When the phone rang today at 7:45 a.m., I had thought it might be someone else, but to my great sorrow I was to find out differently. Shelley Rubin, the wife of JDL leader was on the line to tell me that Irv Rubin had passed away during the night. I started to tremble, visions of my memories of Irv came flooding back, tears, anger, regret, a whole panoply of emotions came to the surface. Shelley was quite naturally bereaved but holding up. We all know that death is a part of life, however the tragic way that Irv Rubin's...

Irv Rubin by Arlene Peck November 10, 2002 They said he killed himself. Then the news came out that he was brain dead. Today, I heard on the radio that Irv Rubin was in intensive care, but still holding on. They say a lot of things. Frankly, I don’t believe a word of it. I knew Irv. He was a friend. I knew his mentality. There is no way he would commit suicide. Nor would he do so in the violent manner which was described in the press. It makes no sense. None. Irv would not have waited until the...

<p>LOS ANGELES -- Irv Rubin, the Jewish Defense League leader who was jailed on charges of plotting to bomb a mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman, has been declared brain dead after what federal authorities called a suicide attempt.</p>

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, jailed for allegedly plotting to bomb a mosque and the offices of a Arab-American congressman, was left brain dead and on life support on Monday after slitting his throat in a suicide attempt. "He is on life support and his prognosis is dire," Rubin's attorney, Bryan Altman, told Reuters. "He is brain dead. I don't know if there is any indication that that can change in a positive way." Rubin, 57, had been taken from his cell at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles at about 5...

Defending Irv Rubin - - - - - - - - - - - - By Arlene Peck/Jewsweek.com Jewsweek.com | Years ago, I knew Rabbi Meir Kahane. Contrary to many people's thoughts, I found him to be a strong and powerful leader. He walked softly, but carried a big stick. We worked together on a few projects. None of them violent, but, a few that I thought important to the Jewish people. Once, when Billy Carter was traveling around the country with his alleged Libyan terrorist under the guise of a Peace Treaty with Georgia and Libya I called in...