It’s not a particularly European topic, but one I simply had to report. I just received a newsletter from the European Journalism Center pointing to a BBC story about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda handing life sentences to several radio “journalists” who had called for the genocidal slaughter of Tutsis in 1994 including communicating [...]

Jonathan Edelstein celebrated his first blog anniversary two days ago. His weblog, the Head Heeb, is one of the best blogs I’ve had the fortune to read. He writes eloquently and authoritatively about Isreael/Palestine, Africa, Polynesia(!), Jewish communities around the world, Jewish history, and plenty of other topics. Most of his post are on topics [...]

“The EU report on anti-Semitism that the EU decided to shelve has been leaked to the Jerusalem Post, and is available here.” Via Eugene Volokh, and the Head Heeb. Neither them nor I have read it yet.
There’s undoubtedly anti-semitism in European countries. Speaking of Europe as one entity here is inappropriate, by the way.
There’s [...]

(Published, then removed earlier version of this when i meant to save it as a draft. Apologies for the confusion.)
Yahoo! News - EU Agrees Drugs Law, Dutch ‘Coffee’ Shops Survive
This shows just how much policy is made in Brussels nowadays. This happens to be real bad policy, too (the small posession stuff.) But regardless of [...]