The Central Role of the UN in the BDS Campaign against Israel
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By Amb. Richard Schifter Feb. 5, 2014 – Anti-Israel activists seeking to impose boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) on Israel have been active on college campuses and among U.S. church groups for several years, but the media paid little attention until two months ago, when the American Studies Association adopted a resolution endorsing a boycott […]
Plans for a Major BDS Campaign against Israel under UN Auspices
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By Ambassador Richard Schifter Jan. 5, 2014 – Summary: Friends of Israel must be prepared to deal later this year with a proposed UN General Assembly resolution which would call for UN member states to impose a boycotts, divestment, and sanctions program (“BDS”) against Israel. As the General Assembly lacks the power to mandate such […]
Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Anti-Semitism in Europe
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By Edward H. Kaplan and Charles A. Small JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, Vol. 50 No. 4, August 2006 548-561 © 2006 Sage Publications In the discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, extreme criticisms of Israel (e.g., Israel is an apartheid state, the Israel Defense Forces deliberately target Palestinian civilians), coupled with extreme policy proposals (e.g., boycott […]
Tribunal in the Fraser case finds no antisemitism in UCU – a preliminary response from David Hirsh
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“When someone is honestly 55% right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God. But what’s to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever say he’s 100% right […]
Elyakim Rubinstein – “Reflections on Antisemitism and Israel”
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Title: Reflections on Antisemitism and Israel Speaker: Elyakim Rubinstein, Supreme Court Justice of Israel and the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004 Date: April 3, 2013 Location: Harvard Law School, as part of the Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Yigal Carmon – “The Impact of the Arab Spring on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Arab and Muslim World”
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Speaker: Yigal Carmon, Founder of MEMRI Title: The Impact of the Arab Spring on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Arab and Muslim World Date: March 12, 2013 Location: McGill University, as part of the “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Seminar Series Yigal Carmon, founder of MEMRI, an organization that monitors Middle East media, talked about […]
Israeli singer Rita’s special surrealistic concert at the UN General Assembly
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UN Ambassador Prosor has pulled off one of the most unusual diplomatic achievements ever: a full-fledged UN-sponsored Farsi-Hebrew musical event full of goodwill and sympathy. Inside the hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations building in New York, it seemed at times that either the messiah had arrived or the world had turned […]
George Galloway in “racist” walk out
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George Galloway walked out of a debate on Wednesday evening after learning that the student he was debating with was an Israeli. The Respect MP had just begun to debate Eylon Aslan-Levy, a third-year PPEist at Brasenose, on the motion ‘Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank’. But as Aslan-Levy was beginning his speech, […]
Meir Litvak – “Radical Islam and the Arab Spring”
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Speaker: Meir Litvak, Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University Discussion: “Radical Islam and the Arab Spring” Date: February 8, 2013 Location: Stanford University, Hoover Institute
Op-Ed by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the New York Times
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Raised on Hatred EGYPT’S newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was caught on tape about three years ago urging his followers to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists. Not long after, the then-leader of the Muslim Brotherhood described Zionists as “bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians,” “warmongers” and “descendants of apes […]