Kerin discusses the May 8 hearing of the congressional GOP-led Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education. The Montgomery County Public School, along with Berkeley Unified ...School District (BUSD) and New York City Public Schools, were "invited" under threat of subpoena to testify. This was just three weeks after the Columbia University president testified and sparked outrage leading to college protests across the globe. In addition, two of the school systems (MCPS and BUSD) are now under Department of Education Title VI investigations for "persistent" anti- Semitism that could result in a loss of federal funding. So when the three leaders of the public school systems walked into that hearing, they had already received the "chill effect" message that they should genuflect.
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Montgomery County, Maryland isn't the first and won't be the last community to pass a resolution that redefines anti-Semitism to include criticisms of Israel. However, the unanimous passage by the ...County Council on Nov. 1 is destined to serve as a legacy turning point in the growing national policy trend to suppress Palestinian human rights activism. At the core of the debate is the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. It gives eleven examples of what the IHRA considers to be anti-Semitic discourse, some of which are simply criticisms of Israel/Zionism. Prior to its passage in Montgomery County, the resolution had already begun creeping into less conservative municipalities like Arlington, VA and Washington, DC. But those resolutions passed unnoticed, for the most part, by activists and elected officials who had no idea that it went beyond affirming that anti-Semitism was a form of racism and would not be tolerated.
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More than 100 Maryland soccer players met at Bullis Park, Silver Spring in late July to participate in the First Annual Soccer for Palestine tournament. Organized by MD2Palestine, a local grassroots ...organization, the playing fees and other donations from the tournament were to benefit the West Bank village of Wadi Foquin. According to Yasmeen Abdelkarim, an MD2Palestine organizer of the fundraising event, soccer represents both the resistance and hope of the youth in Wadi Foquin so it became a natural choice for us to use that as an organizing fundraiser to help the village. Abdelkarim was referring to the difficulties facing Wadi Foquin, not only in the construction of their own soccer field but in keeping their community's land. Located in the Bethlehem district of Palestine, the village is surrounded by the illegal settlements of Betar Illit and Hadar Betar. In addition to ongoing land confiscation orders, the village has seen acres of farmland destroyed and has endured sewage intentionally dumped from the settlements onto their crops and groundwater.
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With Baltimore as its backdrop, on August 12-14 Pax Christi USA (PCUSA), the Catholic Church's national peace movement, held its annual conference, which this year was titled "Building the Beloved ...Community." Grounded in the Gospel and Catholic social teaching, PCUSA is a membership organization that rejects war, preparation for war, every form of violence and domination, and personal and systemic racism. Sessions this year focused on a variety of social justice topics, including environmental destruction, the US criminal justice system, militarism, immigration and Islamophobia -- all using the lens of racial injustices. In addition to support for BDS goals and strategies, the declaration by the three regional councils encourages their membership to study Kairos Palestine's A Moment of Truth document, which has been endorsed by 13 patriarchs and heads of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches in Jerusalem. Members are also charged with promoting this document within their parishes and Catholic community circles.
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According to Yvonne Wall, an Arab Israeli who lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, activists have been working to address these concerns as far back as 2009, when Montgomery County announced a town ...meeting to first launch its overall sister-city program. "Beit Shemesh appears to be a city that, at minimum, is unwelcoming to those of a different ethnicity or religion. ...the Ethiopian community within Israel has requested the Knesset to investigate charges of discrimination against Ethiopians living in Beit Shemesh, given the fact that black children are segregated from white children in special schools, beginning in kindergarten."
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According to Dina Kennedy, a key member of the newly formed U.S. Palestinian Community Network, you really can't fault groups like J Street. According to its National Advocacy Director, Josh Ruebner, ...Our vision for U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine is based on respect for international law and human rights.
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Breaking the siege on Capitol Hill Kerin, Susan
The Washington report on Middle East affairs,
08/2010, Volume:
29, Issue:
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According to Andrew Kennedy, who hand-delivered some of the letters, "we specifically targeted representatives who either had constituents on board the ship, belonged to the Foreign Appropriations ...subcommittee that gives Israel its military aid, or are members of the Executive Committee for the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, because we thought they would be the ones most likely to respond and take action to protect the ships." ... according to Ambassador Peck's wife, she was never even contacted to see if she he? was alright or needed assistance.
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Middle Eastern Christians Kerin, Susan
The Washington report on Middle East affairs,
11/2003, Volume:
22, Issue:
9
Journal Article
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The purpose of this study was to test whether Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a widely used effective therapy for children’s externalizing behaviors and parenting problems, was associated ...with improvements in parents’ emotion regulation and reflective functioning. We also investigated whether these improvements had unique associations with children’s improvements in externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Participants were 139 Australian children aged 29 to 83 months and their caregivers; all were referred for child externalizing behavior problems coupled with parenting skill deficits or high parent stress. All data were gathered via a questionnaire completed prior to and after completion of PCIT. Significant improvements were found in parents’ self-reported emotion dysregulation and capacity to use cognitive reappraisal for emotion regulation. There was also improvement in parents’ self-report of children’s symptoms, parenting practices, and reflective functioning in the form of prementalizing, which measured a low capacity to understand the emotional world of the child. Multiple regression showed that improvements in cognitive reappraisal, prementalizing, and negative parenting practices were associated with improvement in children’s symptoms. The findings extend the existing evidence for PCIT as an effective parenting intervention, adding parents’ perceived emotion regulation and reflective functioning to the list of positive outcomes from PCIT. Improved emotion regulation and reflective functioning, unique from changes in parenting practices, could be mechanisms that help explain why PCIT has been associated with improvements in children’s externalizing behaviors.
•Parent-child Interaction Therapy is an effective therapy for child externalizing.•Pre- to post-PCIT, parents’ emotion regulation improved.•Pre- to post-PCIT, parents’ prementalizing functioning improved.•Pre- to post-PCIT, positive and negative parenting practices improved.•Parental changes during PCIT were associated with more improved child symptoms.
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