The Forward reports on the invited participation of Jews, including the keynote speaker, at Al-Jazeera's third annual form in Doha, Qatar - personally I don't see it as any big deal:
AL JAZEERA GATHERING DRAWS FULL MINYAN TO HEART OF OF ARAB WORLD By Orly Halpern - The Forward April 27, 2007
Some participants at the third-annual forum of the Arab satellite network Al Jazeera were sorry they didn’t bring matzo with them — had they known how many fellow Jews were attending the media conference, they would have made a Passover Seder.
“We could have used the hotel wine to fill our cups,” Mark LeVine said only half-jokingly. A professor of Middle East studies at University of California in Irvine, LeVine was one of several Jewish participants who attended the invitation-only conference in Doha, organized by Al Jazeera.
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