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Don’t punish Israel; it’s not terror’s causeSunday, June 11, 2006MAURICE SHEVIN This week, the Presbyterian Church-USA is holding its Biennial General Assembly in Birmingham. This event has caused a serious dilemma for Birmingham’s Jewish community and other friends of Israel.…
read more(Irshad Manji is author of The Trouble with Islam Today, available at SPMEMart spme.org/spmemart.html at discounted prices. ) Three years ago, as writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, I was putting the final touches on my book, The Trouble with…
read moreConventional wisdom holds that Israel’s international standing is directly related to its willingness to move toward peace with the Palestinians. Yet in recent years, despite previously unimaginable concessions, its international standing, far from improving, has hit an all-time low. Consider…
read moreNo. 543 5 Sivan 5766 / 1 June 2006 The U.S. military victory in Iraq did at first create a more congenial atmosphere among Palestinians for peace with Israel. However, the present situation in Iraq, as well as Iran and…
read moreA British higher-education teachers’ union passed a resolution on Israel at its annual conference recently that was stunning for its rejection of academic values and simple bigotry. The resolution calls Israel’s policies toward Palestinians “apartheid policies” and urges the union’s…
read moreAn anti-Israel and anti-Semitic wave is consuming England. Several groups are waging an aggressive war against Israel, and the battle has reached new heights of late. A group of British university lecturers with 67,000 members recently decided to support the…
read moreThe blustery beach front at Blackpool on a chilly bank holiday Monday seems a very long way – geographically and politically – from the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. But the final seaside gathering of the lecturers’ union Natfhe, before…
read moreCOMMENTARY BY www.washingtoninstitute.org If there is one thing that the Bush administration and its critics agree on, it is that we can not win the war on terror only through military means. So long as the greater Middle East is…
read moreSpeaking last October at a Tehran conference on “The World Without Zionism,” Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to Israel as a “disgraceful blot” and called for it to be “wiped off the map.” This was not an isolated or idle…
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IN THE 1980s, there was a concerted movement to make South Africa a pariah state because of its policy of racial apartheid. Today, a similar effort is directed at the state of Israel. A week ago, the anti-Israel campaign achieved…
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