The United Nations’ continues to guarantee that it remains a cesspool of Muslim ethnocentrism and Jew hatred. Via NY Sun: UN diplomats said Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni’s candidacy to become director-general of UNESCO may now be doomed, after he told the Egyptian parliament that if any Israeli books were found in Egyptian libraries, he would burn them. Such a statement is...
Anti-Israeli Agenda Borders on Sacrilege
From Anti-Israeli Agenda Borders on Sacrilege: Last weekend, Old South Church hosted a conference sponsored by North American Friends of Sabeel entitled “The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel” and headlined by Episcopal Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Two days of nonstop bashing of Israel, portrayed as a colonialist oppressor. Palestinian national aspirations were celebrated; Jewish...
They Honor Us with Their Hate
From They Honor Us with Their Hate: A picture dated Sept. 12, 2001, made my heart stop. It showed Palestinians, most of them young, all of them male, cheering the deaths of about 3,000 innocent people in America the day before. This was before America’s retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan or the war in Iraq. It was also before Guantanamo and before the outrage of Abu Ghraib. In other words...
The Historical Roots of the Anti-Israel Positions of Liberal Protestant Churches
From The Historical Roots of the Anti-Israel Positions of Liberal Protestant Churches: The verbal attacks and boycott calls by a variety of Western Protestant, mainly liberal, denominations, as well as the World Council of Churches, have raised new interest in the origins of Christian anti-Semitism and in particular its Protestant version. Among the Protestants’ founding fathers, Martin...
Ten Ways Israel Is Treated Differently
From Ten Ways Israel Is Treated Differently: First, Israel is the only UN member state whose very right to exist is under constant challenge. Notwithstanding the fact that Israel was created with the imprimatur of the UN and has been a member of the world body since 1949, there is a relentless chorus of nations, institutions and individuals denying Israel’s very political legitimacy. No one...
A Victory Against Campus Extremism
An excellent article about a swift kick in the teeth to the Jew-hating parasites that thrive on revisionism and mendacity on American campuses, by Lee Kaplan via FrontPage Magazine: In a powerful blow to the anti-Israel movement on American campuses, the University of California at Riverside has canceled the Fifth Annual International Al Awda Conference that was scheduled to take place there on...
NGOs against Israel
Via NGO Monitor:On May 2 2007, three major NGOs — Human Rights Watch, FIDH [1]and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) — published a joint press release [2]calling on Israel to lift the travel ban placed on Shawan Jabarin, the General Director of Al-Haq[3]. Al Haq, an affiliate of the Geneva based International Commission of Jurists, is a highly politicized Palestinian NGO...
Anti-Israel Ad Campaign Set for Washington Subway
Folks, even as Israel completes its evacuation of more than 20 “settlements” in the Gaza Strip, Arabs still make the argument that Gaza remains “occupied” territory, even though palestinians exercise self-government and the Israeli civilian and military presence in these disputed territories have been removed. This proves that the palestinian claim of...
Sweeping Anti-Semitism in South Africa Under the Carpet
From the author of It’s Almost Supernatural: I have been waiting for weeks for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Jewish report to publicize the findings of the South Africa Anti-Semitism report,06 by the Institute of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. And I will most likely continue waiting until the Messiah comes so I have decided...
Israeli Security Agency Warns of Hamas Attacks
From Israeli Security Agency Warns of Hamas Attacks: A recent wave of arrests of Hamas militants in the West Bank town of Kalkilya, linked to a truck packed with 220 pounds of explosives and driven to the Tel Aviv area, provided evidence that Hamas members there are primed to resume attacks in Israel, the Israeli internal security service Shin Bet asserted Tuesday. The Shin Bet statement warned...