Paris, Cairo, and the French Peace Initiative
Explaining Israel’s muted reaction.
June 3, 2016
Meeting an Israeli Druze gets a politician thrown in jail.
Last month, Aslam Chowdhury, a high-ranking member of the Bangladeshi Nationalist party (BNP), the country’s largest opposition party, made an official visit to India where he met a Likud-affiliated Israeli Druze political consultant named Mendi Safadi. Photographs of the two shaking hands soon made their way into a Bangladeshi newspaper, leading to Chowdhurry’s arrest for sedition. Sebastian Bustle explains:
Explaining Israel’s muted reaction.
King Abdullah denies Palestinian distinctiveness.
Joseph Soloveitchik’s “Confrontation.”
Meeting an Israeli Druze gets a politician thrown in jail.
Laying the groundwork for decades of Soviet anti-Semitism.
Last month, Aslam Chowdhury, a high-ranking member of the Bangladeshi Nationalist party (BNP), the country’s largest opposition party, made an official visit to India where he met a Likud-affiliated Israeli Druze political consultant named Mendi Safadi. Photographs of the two shaking hands soon made their way into a Bangladeshi newspaper, leading to Chowdhurry’s arrest for sedition. Sebastian Bustle explains:
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