From NY Pension Fund Linked to Rogue Nations: The New York State pension fund has $12 billion invested in companies that do business with nations identified by the State Department as sponsors of terrorism. A report released Sunday by state senator Jeff Klein found that 16% of the $140 billion fund is invested in companies that do business with Syria, Iran, Sudan, and North Korea. Klein is...
Sudan’s Genocide Continues
Via CSI: A fact-finding team followed-up the Save Darfur Rally in Washington D.C. (April 30) with a visit to Juba and the borderlands of Southern Sudan and Darfur (May 3 – 11). In Juba, they met with President Salva Kiir of Southern Sudan. They then investigated the plight of displaced Darfurians and Dinka returnees – especially from Darfur – interviewed liberated slaves, and...
Palestinian Sheikh Calls on Allah to Kill Every Single Israeli and American
At a mosque in Sudan, the Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Sheik Ahmad Bahr, calls for Israel and America to be annihilated and for Allah to kill every single Israeli and American citizen. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) Click here for more information. Following are excerpts from a sermon delivered by Ahmad Bahr, acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, which aired on...
Divestment Would Form Critical Mass Against Sudan Genocide
From Divestment Would Form Critical Mass Against Sudan Genocide: This month the Texas Legislature will consider a measure withdrawing the investments of two state pension plans in firms that do business with Sudan. Meanwhile, a divestment movement is snowballing. Eight states, six cities, and 42 universities, including Harvard and Stanford, are withdrawing investment from firms doing business...
Iran Accused of Promoting Shiism in Sudan
From Iran Accused of Promoting Shiism in Sudan: Sunni Islamists in Sudan have accused Iran of trying to spread Shiite Islam in the country. The Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood presented authorities in Khartoum with evidence of Teheran’s attempts to convert locals to Shiism. Sunni groups have denounced what they say is a “Shiite peril” and the opening of several Shiite...
U.S. Admits Arafat Murdered American Officials
From U.S. Admits Arafat Murdered American Officials: After 33 years, the U.S. State Department has finally declassified a document admitting it knew that the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973 “was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval” of PLO leader Yasser Arafat. In the attack on March 1, 1973, eight members of the Black September terrorist...
The Arab media’s indifference to the violence in Sudan
Folks, MEMRI has provided a translation of the commentary by the former editor Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, of the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, wherein Al-Rashed decried the Arab media’s indifference to the violence in Sudan. “They are not the victims of Israeli or American aggression; therefore, they are not an issue for concern. This is how an approach of indifference towards others...