Pazy The Chinese Government Is at War With Faith. U.S. Official Denounces Religious Crackdown in China
By TIME StaffJuly 22, 2019 5:00 AM EDTHong Kong leader Carrie Lam failed Monday to allay public anger over violent attacks in the city overnight, condemning what she called riotous protesters who vandalized a Chinese government building before expressing regret that a gang of men armed with rods and cudgels attacked demonstrators and others
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Courtesy of Rev. Bruce ShipmanBy Elizabeth DiasSeptember 12, 2014 3:12 PM EDTYale University Episcopal chaplain Bruce Shipman says three sentences cost him his job.In a short letter
salomon to the New York Times late August, Shipman responded to
hoka an op-ed by Deborah E. Lipstadt titled Why Jews are Worried, about rising anti-Semitism in Europe.Here what he wrote:Deborah E. Lipstadt makes far too little of the relationship between Israelrsquo policies in the West Bank and Gaza and growing anti-Semitism in Europe and beyond. The trend to which she alludes parallels the carnage in Gaza over the last five years, not to mention the perpetu
salomon ally stalled peace talks and the continuing occupation of the West Bank. As hope for a two-state solution fades and Palestinian casualties continue to mount, the best antidote to anti-Semitism would be for Israelrsquo patrons abroad to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for final-status resolution to the Palestinian question.Within hours of the letter publication, Shipman says, people on and off campus began calling for his ouster. Two weeks later, he resigned. Why this happenedmdash;and what at stakemdash;depends on who you ask.Shipman has a long history of sympathy for the plight of Palestinians. As a teenager, he lived in Egypt while his father worked for World Health Organization and was there when Israel invaded during the 1956 Suez War. Among my friends were Palestinian refug
