Heather Robinson

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CSP Features My Interview of Filmmaker Brooke Goldstein About Her film, “The Making of a Martyr”

July 7, 2009 – 3:25 pm

Today the Center for Security Policy’s web site features my discussion with attorney, human rights activist, and filmmaker Brooke Goldstein about her film, “The Making of a Martyr.”

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Angelina Gets It

March 1, 2008 – 1:04 pm

On Thursday, actress Angelina Jolie published an opinion piece in The Washington Post arguing that U.S. troops should be allowed to stay in Iraq and provide the security necessary for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) to address the humanitarian crisis in Iraq.

While I’m a bit skeptical of any United Nations undertaking …

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If They Strapped Bombs on Dogs or Horses…

December 10, 2007 – 3:24 am

Last month’s Annapolis conference, like Oslo, was pure kabuki theater, in which leaders gathered to pretend that the central issue of the Arab/Israeli conflict is land, not irrational hatred, corruption, and brainwashing of the next generation of “martyrs.” Meanwhile, as leaders nitpick over borders and definitions, the education of an entire generation of Muslim children …

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An Issue for Obama?

December 5, 2007 – 9:22 pm

Here’s an issue for Barack Obama, or any presidential candidate who is sincere about both fighting terrorism and championing human rights: condemning the recruitment of children to become suicide bombers. Today in her talk to U.S. service members at National Defense University in Washington D.C., Brooke Goldstein, director of the legal project at Daniel Pipes’ …

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I Want to Change the Power Dynamics in Relationships

July 4, 2007 – 4:00 am

From the The New York Daily News

By HEATHER ROBINSON
Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 4:00 AM

Even after Dr. Mehret Mandefro had repeatedly warned them to always use a condom, girls and women would return to her office with …

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Recruited To Die

June 1, 2007 – 7:14 pm

From The New York Sun

By HEATHER ROBINSON
June 1, 2007

In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo Law student with a …

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