Israeli rally gets racist: 'Sudanese back to Africa'!

Flagship newspaper Ha'aretz mysteriously if not shamefully removes article on a hate racist rally in Tel Aviv that calls for 'Blacks' to leave Israel; What crimes can a blogger commit; Dubai airshow captured; Money can't buy prestige for well-endowed Arabian universities; Expression 'without' borders from a Blogging 'Bedoun'.

Ethiopian immigrants arrive at Israel's Tel Aviv airport.

Electronic Intifada [4]

Israeli Jewish hate rally against Africans in Tel Aviv caught on video as Haaretz deletes article about it

"The Israeli newspaper Haaretz mysteriously removed from its website an article exposing atrocious Israeli racism against black people just hours after it was published." The demonstrators chanted “The people demand the expulsion of the infiltrators,” “We have come to expunge the darkness,” and “Tel Aviv is for Jews, Sudan is for Sudanese.”"

TNW: Middle East [5]

Syrian blogger charged with weakening national sentiment

"We recently reported on the arrest of Syrian blogger Razan Ghazzawi, a Syrian blogger and activist who works for the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM)."

Jazarah [6]

DUBAI AIRSHOW 2011 FINAL STATS AND HIGHLIGHTS

"Dubai, UAE. 11 December 2011 – This year’s Dubai Airshow has heralded a resurgence in the aerospace industry, with numbers up and an order book of US$63.3 billion, more than four times larger than the previous event in 2009 (US$14 billion in orders)."

Jaraad [7]

Money can buy you a higher rank but not a reputation

Can you buy prestige as an academic institution? Having your university's name added to journal articles might cost you, but some academic institutions can afford to pay to raise their rankings, this report suggests. No prizes for guessing which regional universities would have the wherewithal to employ this form of bribery. "Universities worldwide compete among themselves to be listed among the top ranked and elite universities. The competition is of course so fierce from paying, for example, American football coaches millions of dollars to train the university’s team to aggressively competing in publishing high quality scientific research."

Creative Roots [8]

Nike Jackets with Arab keffiyeh or shemagh

Wouldn't this be a funky design initiative to orientalize Western sports brands? "Sander Reijgers has created a series of Nike jackets which he calls “cultural contrast of symbolism”. The combination of westernized sportswear with the Arab Keffiyeh or Shemagh is an interesting take on joining the two cultures closer."

Jadaliyya [9]

Undocumented and Unafraid

Freeing a Kuwait-grown mind to write on being without state, without identity and without right. To be denied all but the knowledge of what is missed. The Kuwaiti-Without (Bidun) is an oxymoron. “Where are you from?” I paused and said, “I am from Bidun.” She laughed “There’s no such place. No country is Bidun.”