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In last week’s Education Guardian, Tamara Traubmann and Benjamin Joffe-Walt purported to analyse the motives of those who opposed the recent Natfhe motion to boycott Israeli academics who did not “publicly dissociate themselves” from “Israeli apartheid policies” (How a campaign…
read moreEven the most ardent fans of acronyms will not recognize this one – BDS. That is, unless they are involved with peace movements concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. BDS means Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions. It has recently become a popular acronym…
read moreWASHINGTON, June 25 (JTA) – Last week, the 217th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA voted 483-28 to replace its controversial stance on divestment from Israel, adopted two years earlier, with a more balanced, nuanced approach. They said suicide…
read moreThe increasing number of Palestinian civilian casualties unintentionally inflicted by Israel in its effort to stop rocket attacks against its own civilians reflects the success of the terrorists’ policy. The goal of Palestinian terrorism is to increase the number of…
read moreSource: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=34&x_article=1132 Much of the media are misreporting the substance of the referendum proposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the so-called Prisoners’ Document presented in the referendum. If the July 26 referendum actually does take place-Abbas has said the…
read moreURL: http://www.jmcc.org/documents/prisoners.htm In the name of God, the Compassionate and the Merciful,“Abide by the decree of God and never disperse” (a verse from the Holy Quran) Based on the high sense of national and historical responsibility and due to the…
read moreSource: http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/crown/publications/Mid%20East%20Brief/Brief%208%20June%202006%20Zeevi.pdf Dror Ze’evi is a professor at Ben Gurion University in Israel, where he founded the Department of Middle East Studies, and a visiting scholar at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. On several occasions in the last…
read moreThe central thesis of Efraim Karsh’s provocative new book is that Arabs and Muslims do not change their spots. Islam is a millennarian faith in which politics and religion are inextricably bound together. Although they differ in ideological approach, secular…
read moreFrancisco Gil-White is an historian at the Unviersity of Pennsylvania. He was once anti-Israel until he did what a true historian does–research. He now is a staunch defender of Israel. His articles are illuminating. Read on: On the supposed ‘about…
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Hamas VideoA Hamas video just released on their web site focuses on the broader Palestinian Islamic ideology, promising the eventual conquering and subjugation of Christian countries under Islam. The way Israel “ran” from Gaza after terror is presented as the…
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