Should funding to UNRWA be made conditional upon ending incitement?
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/should-funding-to-unrwa-be-made-conditional-upon-ending-incitement/
A new comprehensive study by the Center for Near East Policy Research and the Israel Resource News Agency, commissioned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, highlights that there is an unprecedented level of incitement to terror in new Palestinian Authority school books used in UNRWA schools. How should the sixty-eight UNRWA donors react? The Center for […]
Himmler’s Boost for al-Husaini
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/himmlers-boost-for-al-husaini/
A Re-Discovery of the SS-Leader’s Anti-Balfour Cable to the Grand Mufti In April the National Israeli Library blogged Himmler’s re-discovered telegram to the grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husaini. Contrary to the comment there that Nazi Germany did not declare its help for the Arab independence, I argue, it did. This cable further recognized the […]
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, in France 2002 – 2010
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-against-israel-in-france-2002-2010/
The Palestinian cause is emblematic in more ways than one, mobilizing a multiplicity of solidarities, passions and/or actions. Associations take action to support this cause, as well as maintaining multiple links and contacts among themselves. These groups are essentially on the left or extreme left of the political spectrum and mobilize anti-globalization and alternative issues […]
New Conclusive Research: Message of Antisemitism and War on the Jews from PA and UNRWA
https://isgap.org/media/2017/02/new-conclusive-research-message-of-antisemitism-and-war-on-the-jews-from-pa-and-unrwa/
Jan. 27, “New Conclusive Research: Message of Antisemitism and War on the Jews from PA and UNRWA” David Bedein, Director, Israel Resource News Agency, Center for Near East Policy Research; Location: The ISGAP Center, 3rd Floor 165 E. 56th St., New York, NY 10022 Time: Noon, 12 P.M.
The Terror Attack at the Pulse Club in Orlando
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-terror-attack-at-the-pulse-club-in-orlando/
Too many similarities and some differences mark the terror attack in Tel Aviv on June 8 and the terror attack in Orlando on June 12. In Tel Aviv, two cousins inspired by hateful incitement blended into the crowd with a mission to kill as many civilians as possible. They used improvised weapons (Carl Gustav) and […]
The Terror Attack in the Tel Aviv Sarona Market
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-terror-attack-in-the-tel-aviv-sarona-market/
By now there is wide coverage in various media outlets of the terror attack in Tel Aviv close to IDF Headquarters. The Atlanta Journal & Constitution – which did not report on the shooting – reported today on a few reactive measures enacted by Israel. The confusion of the first moments was understandable and initially […]
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: Same Idea, New Cloak
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/antisemitism-and-anti-zionism-same-idea-new-cloak/
Comparing antisemitism and Anti-Zionism and showing that the latter is the modern form of the former may be easy if we simply use the US state department 2010 definition of antisemitism that states that “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism […]
Journalistic Ethics and Mideast Reporting
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/journalistic-ethics-and-mideast-reporting/
In a world at once increasingly chaotic and interconnected, the news media have come to play unprecedented roles both in covering and influencing fast-moving events. The current violence in Israel is all the more disturbing because of the morally ambiguous coverage it receives in the worldwide press. Although this phenomenon is not new – the […]
Ending a Century of Palestinian Rejectionism
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/ending-a-century-of-palestinian-rejectionism/
Palestinians are on the wrong track and will not get off it until the outside world demands better of them. News comes every year or two of a campaign of violence spurred by Palestinian political and religious leaders spreading wild-eyed conspiracy theories (the favorite: Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem is under threat). A spasm of unprovoked […]
Escalation of Palestinian violence
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/escalation-of-palestinian-violence/
The recent escalation in Palestinian violence was brought about by events in early September 2015, when tensions regarding the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque) rose between Israelis and Palestinians. Violence broke out during the Jewish High Holidays, that saw an increase in Jewish worshippers to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, as well as an […]