By URI AVNERY
Sometimes a trivial episode throws a revealing light on a grave public disease.
A classic example: the Captain of Koepenick. On the face of it, it was a minor criminal incident: in 1906, a shoemaker named Wilhelm Voigt was released from prison, after serving a sentence for forgery. To get work he needed a passport, which, as a former convict, he could not get.
So he went to a junk shop and bought the uniform of an army captain, commandeered some soldiers in the street, (...)
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The Hoax of Paris Marie and the Ghosts
21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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2004 Racism Watch Calls for Action to End Use of Anti-Arab Books by the U.S. Government
4 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Ted Glick, 973-338-5398 Manning Marable, Director of African American Studies at Columbia University, today called for immediate action to be taken to end use by the U.S. military of a book, "The Arab Mind," by Raphael Patai. In the words of Brian Whitaker, Middle East correspondent for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the book presents "an overwhelmingly negative picture of the Arabs." "It is outrageous that a book full of racially charged stereotypes and generalizations would be a (...)