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CSUSB professor discusses diplomatic row between Iran and the United Kingdom over detainment of British ambassador
Press TV
Jan. 14, 2020
David Yaghoubian, CSUSB professor of history, was interviewed about the detainment of Rob Macaire, the British ambassador to Iran at a protest in Teheran, and the subsequent diplomatic row.
On Saturday, according to news reports, Iranian authorities arrested the UK’s ambassador to the country and accused him of participating in the anti-government demonstrations over the downing of the Ukrainian airliner. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the ambassador’s move was an act of clear interference in the country’s internal affairs.
Yaghoubian provided the historical background, referring to the 1953 coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence, that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, and led to a surge of nationalism that “culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century,” according to an article in Foreign Policy.
In that context, Yaghoubian said, Iranian police would have been remiss to not approach a foreigner at the Saturday event to find what he was doing there. “Of course, immediately after it was determined that he (Macaire) was, in fact, an ambassador, the (Iranian) foreign ministry got involved and he was released,” he said.
Watch the segment online at “UK parroting U.S. line of terrorist adventurism.”
Orthodox Jews make up a ‘substantial portion’ victims in recent violent hate crimes, CSUSB professor says
The Chronicle
Jan. 12, 2020
In recent months, harassment and violent attacks against visibly Jewish New Yorkers have become disturbingly commonplace. In 2018, the New York Police Department received over 200 reports of anti-Semitic incidents. Among the areas hardest hit by this rise in anti-Semitism are those with large Hasidic Jewish populations such as the Crown Heights and Borough Park neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
“A substantial proportion of these hate crimes involve brutal physical attacks on Orthodox Jews who are easily identifiable,” says Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
Read the complete article at “From New York to Israel, no safe spaces for Jews.”
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