Arabists have failed once again. Via FrontPageMag: Israel was the guest of honor at this year’s Salon du Livre inParis, provoking a Muslim boycott which in turn provoked atorrent of well-mannered reprobation. Egyptian novelist Alaa el-Aswani, disheartened that France would honor “a country guilty of crimes against humanity,” vowed to temper his presence by distributing photos of Palestinian and...
Don’t tell me Muslims aren’t fascist
From Italian Book Fair’s Plans to Honor Israel Lead to Protests: The selection of Israel as guest of honor at this spring’s International Book Fair in Turin has set off a furious debate among Italian, Israeli and Arab authors and intellectuals, including calls to boycott the event, Italy’s largest annual gathering of the publishing world. Those opposed to the decision say that offering such...
The Academic Friends of Israel Press Release
The Academic Friends of Israel welcomes the UCU decision to put an end to its involvement with plans for an academic boycott of Israel that has plagued the union and its predecessors since 2003. Ronnie Fraser Director of the Academic Friends of Israel commented: “While we welcome the UCU’s decision to take the academic boycott of Israel off the agenda we remain concerned that the UCU...
New pariah on the block
Excerpted from The Economist: The campaign for sanctions against Israel is growing. But it faces resistance and is less effective than it looks. For once, Israel’s critics and cheerleaders agree on something: the Jewish state risks greater international isolation. Pro-Israel groups such as NGO Monitor and the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs say a new assault is on the way. In the other...
Polish European Parliament Members to Boycott Anti-Israel UN Conference
From Polish European Parliament Members to Boycott Anti-Israel UN Conference: A UN conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to be hosted at the European Parliament this month, will be boycotted by Polish members of the European Parliament from across the political spectrum who say that the conference is biased against Israel. The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor said the upcoming conference is...
Academics Oppose Israel Boycott
Kudos to Alan Dershowitz who once again proves that Jews have more brains than the so-called academia of Britain. From Academics Oppose Israel Boycott: More than 10,000 academics, including 32 Nobel prize winners, have signed a declaration saying they would not join any project which barred Israelis. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who drafted the statement for Scholars for Peace in the...
British Academics’ Boycott of Israel Provokes Reaction
It’s about time somebody with integrity, grit and resolve did something. From British Academics’ Boycott of Israel Provokes Reaction: Few could have predicted the scale of the backlash to the University and College Union’s resolution to boycott Israel. Tony Blair phoned the Israeli prime minister to reassure him that the motion did not reflect wider public opinion. In Israel...
It’s Time to End the Vilification of Israel
From It’s Time to End the Vilification of Israel: Heigh-ho, it’s boycott time again – as Zionophobic zealots of our universities decide to have another go at ostracizing their fellow academics in Israel.Whether it’s in the best of taste to like Jews better when they’re in concentration camps than when they’re in their own country I leave to less interested...
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...
South African Unions Seek Israel Boycott, Severing Ties
Every nation, regardless of its own barbaric history, holds Israel to a different standard. It is obscene. Now South Africa wants in on the Jewicide. From South African Unions Seek Israel Boycott, Severing Ties: South Africa’s largest trade union federation will launch a campaign against “the Israeli occupation of Arab lands” this week, demanding that Pretoria impose a boycott...