Joshua Yasmeh
Los Angeles Bureau Chief at American Media Institute. Covering foreign policy. Iranian-American. [email protected] [email protected]
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How universities are failing their grad students
And why it matters for undergrads, too
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In San Francisco, an attack on press freedoms and echoes of autocracy
President Trump's rhetoric against the press, including calling members of the media "the enemy of the people," has rightly been criticized. But if there isn't more outrage and accountability around the San Francisco raid, other local law...
The story of Ernest Hemingway’s $187,000 magazine expenses claim
<p>Ernest Hemingway had just returned to London, after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, when he ran into Roald Dahl, then a British Royal Air Force officer. Hemingway told Dahl he’d witnessed a soldier escaping a burning tank on Omaha beach. Dahl...
Fires Set at Two Boston Area Chabad Houses in Single Night
Suspected arson at one center only five days before
Exclusive: Insurer says Iran's Guards likely to have organised...
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are "highly likely" to h...
The Hidden Sources of Iranian Strength
Iran’s ties with its proxies are far deeper than the Trump administration understands.
Rep. Tlaib is wrong — Jews were never given 'a safe haven' in Palestine
Rep. Tlaib should stop superimposing the word “comfort” or “safe haven” when it comes to the plight of the Jews.
Surprising No One, Georgetown Study Confirms Previous Findings on Adultification Bias—By Listening to Black Women and Girls
In 2017, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity released Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood (pdf), providing concrete data that adults typically perceive black...
Joshua Yasmeh
Georgetown Study Confirms Previous Findings on Adultification Bias—black girls seen as less innocent than their white peers.
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Bias Against Sephardim Tests Jewish Unity
Here and in Israel, the story of Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews has been overlooked by the establishment.
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Bias Against Sephardim Tests Jewish Unity jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/bias-against-s… via @NYJewishWeek
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We are on cusp of full-scale confrontation with enemy - Iranian Guards commander
GENEVA (Reuters) - The commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday: "We are on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy,"
Alarm And Grief: Mindful Of 1980s, Iranians Warn Of War's Devastation
Iranians take to social media to air concerns about a possible military conflict.
No, The Alabama Law Doesn’t Punish Women Who Get Abortions
Alabama’s new Human Life Protection Act is less than three-and-a-half pages pages long.
Exposing Assad’s War Crimes
The top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.
Iran bans men from looking at women during Ramadan as part of religious crackdown
As the Iranian economy buckles under the weight of U.S. sanctions, the country’s religious authorities have begun ushering in strict new laws — including an all-encompassing ban on men lookin…
Brutal attack on Swedish woman sends shiver through tiny Jewish community
Assault in Helsingborg shines light on southern Sweden, where anti-Semitic incidents outpace other regions despite relatively small number of Jews
Game of Thrones: Why That Daenerys Turn Feels Like Such a Betrayal
Did the show put too much of a premium on shock?
Buttigieg calls out Democrats for playing 'identity politics'
In a risky speech to the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT rights group, Buttigieg warned of a “crisis of belonging in this country.”
Turkish journalist beaten after TV appearance | DW | 11.05.2019
Yavuz Selim Demirag has been an outspoken critic of President Erdogan. He was set on by assailants with baseball bats in what journalists say is a sign of shrinking press freedom.
The world shrugs as China locks up 1 million Muslims
No other country on earth could get away with it.