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Sundown: Syrian Rebels Open to Talks With Assad?

Plus Brooklyn College endures BDS scandal

by
Adam Chandler
January 30, 2013
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• Top Free Syrian Army leader Sheik Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib has reportedly expressed a willingness to meet with representatives of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. This is the first time the opposition has signaled openness to negotiate. [NYT]

• Alan Dershowitz outlines a controversy involving the political science department at Brooklyn College and its sponsorship of boycott, divestment, and sanctions event and the school’s unwilling to sponsor an event in opposition to it. [Gatestone Institute]

• Two men were arrested in Toulouse, France, in connection with the shooting of four people at a Jewish school last year. [JTA]

• The ‘Hebrew Hammer’ sequel is happening, whether we want it to or not, thanks to some crafty crowdsourced fundraising. Jewcy has the scoop. [Jewcy]

• Ron Jeremy, perhaps the most prolific Jewish actor of our era, is in critical condition at a Los Angeles hospital following a heart aneurysm. [TMZ]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.