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Bicycles instead of cars? Dense apartment clusters instead of single homes? Community rituals instead of churches? "Human rights" instead of religious freedom? The UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) which met June 3-14 [1996]in Istanbul, painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways-free speech, individualism, travel, and Christianity-are out. A new set of economic, environmental, and social guidelines are in. Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Handpicked civil leaders will implement UN "laws", bypassing state and national representatives to work directly with the UN. And politically correct "tolerance"-meaning "the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism"...

Today the President handed out the Presidential Medal of Freedom to not one, but two Antisemites. There was has been a lot of written about one of of the recipients, former Irish President Mary Robinson, who was responsible for the 1991 UN Conference on Racism, which turned out to be a conference for every type of Antisemitism in the world. But the former UN hate monger wasn't the only Antisemite receiving a Presidential award today, the other one honored by the President was Bishop Desmond Tutu For example Tutu has made some very disturbing statements about the Holocaust. He has...

NEW YORK - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is protesting the appearances by Archbishop Desmond Tutu on U.S. college campuses, in view of Tutu's statements comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and complaining about what he called "Jewish arrogance." Tutu spoke this week at Yeshiva University's Cardozo Law School in New York City, and is scheduled to speak soon at the University of Pennsylvania, ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said "in view of Archbishop Tutu's long record of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel remarks, it is appalling that Yeshiva University's Cardozo Law School invited him as a speaker, and we urge...