Category: News

Jul212010

A Palestinian man is jailed for rape after consensual sex

Racism between groups who look alike doesn’t make it any better.

A court in Jerusalem has made international legal history by jailing Sabbar Kashur, a 30-year-old delivery man from East Jerusalem, for 18 months.

He was convicted of “rape by deception” following a criminal trial that has drawn criticism from across Israel.

Jul202010

PZ Myers on Strike? Nooo!

On StrikeYep, the rumors on Twitter are true, PZ Myers is on strike! Science Blogs and Seed Media Group surely are making a huge mistake with this Pepsi ad…err I mean sponsored blog.

It’s come to this. We’ve been facing a steady erosion of talent here at Scienceblogs, with the loss of good people like Carl Zimmer and Ed Yong a while back, and with the very abrupt departure of 15 bloggers after the recent PepsiCo debacle — an event that damaged the reputation of this place. And now just yesterday we lost PalMD and Bora. Something is going rotten here. What could it be?

Jul192010

Water pipes banned for Gaza Women by Hamas

Hookah Lounge

I’m not whole-heartedly surprised in this one but, nonetheless, its still offensive and unfair.

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – The Hamas-run government in Gaza on Sunday said it had banned women from smoking water pipes in public, as fear of the police drove many cafe owners to extinguish the popular pastime.