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The propensity of Islamists defendants to hire Jewish lawyers
Reader comment on item: Excluding Jews and Others from Law Courts
Submitted by Michael Francis Kiely (United States), Mar 12, 2013 at 14:16
This is a time-honored tradition that goes back at least to 1990 when William Kunstler represented El-Sayyid Nosair in his trial for the murder of Meir Kahane.
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| 2 | In France, it happened and it was legal [99 words] | Chemla Véronique | Apr 16, 2013 14:18 | 205227 |
 France is worse: hypocritical too - the same country that venerates Jerry Lewis [9 words] | /alana | Jul 5, 2013 21:47 | 205227 | ||
| Muslims' machine [40 words] | Ben | Mar 23, 2013 17:22 | 204647 | ||
| 10 | British court system: American revolution far from the end [43 words] | Michael Kerjman | Mar 23, 2013 12:13 | 204629 | |
| Discrimination [21 words] | johnhenrik | Mar 21, 2013 10:10 | 204549 | ||
| Nothing new here [143 words] | Rick Levine | Mar 19, 2013 18:14 | 204493 | ||
| Exclusion of Jews from Juries [70 words] | Josephine Bacon | Mar 18, 2013 03:58 | 204440 | |
| Exclusion of Jews from case in British court [81 words] | argus4 | Apr 21, 2013 19:04 | 204440 | ||
| Maccaba vs. Lichtenstein [233 words] | Josephine Bacon | Apr 22, 2013 03:04 | 204440 | ||
| Turkey, Fiddler Style [50 words] | Alana | Jul 4, 2013 22:25 | 204440 | ||
| Turkey, Fiddler style [25 words] | Talking Turkey | Jul 5, 2013 02:43 | 204440 | ||
| 6 | What is next? [33 words] | Michael Hanni Morcos | Mar 14, 2013 15:15 | 204327 | |
| 2 | It may backfire [74 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Kepha Hor | Mar 13, 2013 20:57 | 204302 | |
| Judge rejected defense lawyer's request as unconstitutional [1 words] | Eben Spinonza | Mar 13, 2013 19:55 | 204301 | ||
| 3 | Is it all stealth jihad [36 words] | NuritG | Mar 13, 2013 17:06 | 204290 | |
| 3 | Muslim first, citizen second - the Islamist agenda [162 words] | myth | Mar 14, 2013 04:37 | 204290 | |
| 1 | My comment was not antagonizing and thus damages our defense. [59 words] | NuritG | Mar 14, 2013 17:46 | 204290 | |
| 3 | Chasing green ambulances [170 words] | Richard | Mar 13, 2013 14:13 | 204289 | |
| only testimonies concerning the case - the free choice of religion [251 words] | myth | Mar 13, 2013 05:51 | 204276 | ||
| prejudice concerning the defendant [218 words] | myth | Mar 13, 2013 05:20 | 204274 | ||
| 2 | Antisemitism has gone mainstream in the United States [50 words] | NuritG | Mar 13, 2013 01:34 | 204272 | |
| 1 | Aaaaugh [25 words] | Kepha Hor | Mar 13, 2013 21:00 | 204272 | |
| antisemitism mainstream in United T] [74 words] | Alana | Jul 5, 2013 21:43 | 204272 | ||
| Frederick Cohn is correct [78 words] | EA | Mar 12, 2013 23:55 | 204271 | ||
| No, Judge Vitaliano is correct. [99 words] | Jeff | Mar 14, 2013 12:48 | 204271 | ||
| 2 | not necessarily [68 words] | ESM | Mar 12, 2013 22:50 | 204268 | |
| 1 | So right [58 words] | sara | Mar 13, 2013 18:35 | 204268 | |
| Truly ironic [75 words] | stanley b | Mar 13, 2013 18:39 | 204268 | ||
| American Jury Selection [111 words] | Thesteven | Mar 12, 2013 22:35 | 204267 | ||
| This should not happen in the West [259 words] | Amit Srivastava | Mar 12, 2013 22:18 | 204266 | ||
| 4 | Imagine if a Muslim was barred from a jury [8 words] | Gamaliel Isaac | Mar 12, 2013 21:36 | 204264 | |
| 2 | A slippery slope [130 words] | MikeKu | Mar 14, 2013 11:05 | 204264 | |
| 5 | Will they now exclude… [26 words] | Kevin from Ottawa | Mar 12, 2013 21:13 | 204263 | |
| 3 | Jury of his peers? [29 words] | David Sabghir | Mar 12, 2013 19:49 | 204261 | |
| 5 | Putting biases aside [22 words] | brtzg | Mar 12, 2013 19:44 | 204260 |
| 1 | Excluding Jews. Here we go again... [57 words] | Steven L | Mar 12, 2013 19:29 | 204259 | |
| 2 | Exclusing Jews and Others from Juries [154 words] | Judith | Mar 12, 2013 19:25 | 204258 | |
| 1 | Traitors! [37 words] | Adam | Mar 12, 2013 19:09 | 204257 | |
| 4 | Jewish lawyers [65 words] | Susan K | Mar 12, 2013 19:03 | 204256 | |
| Not every Jewish lawyer is good [33 words] | Ron | Mar 13, 2013 13:55 | 204256 | ||
| Not accurate [99 words] | sara | Mar 13, 2013 18:46 | 204256 | ||
| Fees [112 words] | Susan K | Mar 13, 2013 19:10 | 204256 | ||
| Generalizing [53 words] | sara | Mar 13, 2013 19:15 | 204256 | ||
| Let's not extrapolate [134 words] | Susan K | Mar 13, 2013 19:31 | 204256 | ||
| Another generalization [215 words] | sara | Mar 14, 2013 18:09 | 204256 | ||
| WHATEVER [152 words] | Susan K | Mar 14, 2013 18:12 | 204256 | ||
| YES [52 words] | Susan K | Mar 14, 2013 19:27 | 204256 | ||
| 3 | Why not excluding Jews from their acts of violence? [18 words] | Laurent | Mar 12, 2013 18:56 | 204254 | |
| 3 | Excluding Jews & others from juries [56 words] | Henry Marcot | Mar 12, 2013 18:12 | 204253 | |
| You've stolen the words from my mouth :-) [74 words] | Dmitry | Mar 12, 2013 23:03 | 204253 | ||
| next time [8 words] | NEC | Mar 12, 2013 15:19 | 204249 | ||
| 2 | It is sick and racist to exclude someone due to religion, colour or race ... but . . . . [151 words] | Phil Greend | Mar 12, 2013 14:45 | 204245 | |
| 1 |  The propensity of Islamists defendants to hire Jewish lawyers [27 words] | Michael Francis Kiely | Mar 12, 2013 14:16 | 204242 |
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