There is too much misinformation about Israel. There are many folks who would like to see Israel disappear. They abuse the truth. Here we
present honest information you can use to defend the State Of Israel and Judaism. Am Yisrael Chai!
1. 15% of stories about Palestinian aggression named the Palestinians as the aggressors; 60% of stories about Israeli operations named Israelis as aggressors
2. 19 of 23 stories are from the Palestinian perspective. The Israeli views are stifled.
3. The BBC abandoned the European unions working definition of anti-Semitism
4. The BBC routinely publishes sensational headlines and stories about the Jews and Israel.
In 2004 the Balen Report was suppressed by the BBC -it had examined anti-Israel bias within the BBC
for details click the link and read the whole article however here's the top 10 list:
there is blood in the water
professors are engaged
the map is wider
the groups are smarter
the fight is moving to law schools
the backlash has begun
pro Israel groups are ready
legislatures are taking action
the US Department of Education is available
lawyers are beginning to prepare
note: once again the law of unintended consequences is at play.
has the BDS movement triggered a solidarity among the defenders of Israel? It sure seems that way this week.
this article is from the Jerusalem Post online posted February 24th 2014. the author is the president of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights under law.
time is not on the side of those who have jumped on the hate Israel, BDS, anti apartheid bandwagon. As time goes by the public is becoming more aware of the
false under pinnings of the BDS movement and the credibility of the movement is failing.
with time the public no longer buys the old cheap shot talking points. And celebrities, respected politicians, students and increasingly organized concerned citizen's groups have begun to expose the movement for what it truly is: anti Semitism and a long-standing effort to push Israel into the sea.
this article exposes the glaring failure of Roger Waters and points to the multiple success stories of bands & musicians who continue to make touring in Israel a priority.
note: I never agree with just about anything Breitbart puts up but I have to admit I agree with this article
from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES DAILY BRUIN
February 24, 2014
from the article:
At the end of Sunday’s event, Jacob Goldberg, former president of the Olive Tree Initiative, asked Power for her stance on the divestment from companies that profit from or are involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. He mentioned a controversial resolution UCLA’s undergraduate student government will consider Tuesday that would call for the University of California to divest from several American and European companies that contribute to human rights violations in Palestinian territories.
Power said the United Nations is against the idea of boycotts and divestment in this context. She added that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict currently has a “meaningful chance of peace, dignity and ultimately prosperity” for both Palestine and Israel without using such tactics, and that it is important to include parties in discussion rather than exclude them.
“We oppose boycotts and divestments and do not feel as if they are appropriate in this context at all,” Power said. “(We) feel that they are disruptive to the most lasting way to bring about dignity and peace for both parties involved, which is this peace process that we have underway.” Read the article here:
From COMMENTARY MAGAZINE 2/21/2014 by Jonathan S. Tobin @tobincommentary
from this excellent article:
"Judith Butler, John Judis, Roger Waters, and Alice Walker can say whatever they want about Israel in a thousand other, often more prominent, forums than those in the Jewish community. But they are not entitled to have Jewish institutions honor or fund their anti-Israel hate. Upholding that principle isn’t repression. It’s just common sense." Read the ARTICLE HERE
I don't always see eye to eye with Commentary. But I'm willing to acknowledge when they have something fair to say. Hey, I have to be honest, right?
"Israel is the only liberal democracy in the turbulent Middle East. It is the only country in the region with freedom of speech, politics, press, the rule of law, freedom of religion for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and the only country supporting women’s rights and protection of LGBT communities.
In contrast, treatment of Christians in other Middle Eastern countries as well as in Hamas-run Gaza and territories under the administration of the Palestinian Authority ranges from persecution to murder. Christians are fleeing Muslim lands in record numbers.
“I would sacrifice my life for the State of Israel and all of its citizens,” stated IDF Commander Monaliza Abdo, a Christian Israeli-Arab from Haifa who volunteered to serve and protect her country and rose through the ranks to become an officer."
Click the link above to read more from this uplifting piece. If Students in Ireland can stand up for Israel, then the students at VASSAR COLLEGE and other US colleges and universities can, too.
by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky Forbes February 24, 2014 from the Middle East Forum Website NOTE: It is important to reiterate the fact that 60 years after the creation of Israel only Palestinian "refugees" exist and they do so by thier own choice. No arab country accepted them with the exception of Jordan. Most chose to REMAIN REFUGEES under the assumption they could someday push Israel into the sea and "go home". Understand this and you understand why the peace process is always doomed to failure. Home equals Palestine equals a nation without Jews, ergo no "2 state" solution. Anyway, you read this excellent article and see what you think. Feel free to comment. READ IT HERE
This is a MUST READ. The disturbing action at VASSAR COLLEGE, including the response to the ASA Boycott Threat, the BDS movement and now Hillel opting out and joining Open Hillel is primarily responsible for this blog. Please take the time to read this article. Comments are welcome!
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has added to my ambivalence about my alma mater.
ByLUCETTE LAGNADO
Feb. 23, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET
From the WSJ Online Please read this article here: HERE
(This article is behind a paywall. You may be able to read it by searching the title (above) in Google.)
Ms. Lagnado, a Journal reporter, is the author of two memoirs of her Egyptian-Jewish family, "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" (Harper Perennial, 2008) and "The Arrogant Years" (Ecco, 2012).
The Jewish Museum in New York has scrapped a talk that included a planned appearance by Israel critic Judith Butler after Butler pulled out of the event amid pressure from supporters of the Jewish state.
“I cancelled the event,” Butler told the Forward in an email.
Butler was set to speak at an event about the late existentialist artist, Franz Kafka. But many supporters of Israel took issue with the museum’s decision to invite the controversial literary studies professor, given her strongly critical views on Israel and her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction Movement.
“While her political views were not a factor in her participation, the debates about her politics have become a distraction making it impossible to present the conversation about Kafka as intended,” the museum said in a statement.
Butler is a professor of comparative literature and critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley and also holds positions at Columbia University and the European Graduate School.
She said in a statement that she regretted having to scrap the talk.
“I was very much looking forward to the discussion of Kafka in The Jewish Museum, and to affirm the value of Kafka’s literary work in that setting,” Butler said in a statement released by the museum.
A spokesperson from the museum has confirmed that the talk, which was set to also include the museum’s deputy director Jens Hoffmann, was cancelled.
As a Rabbi, former President of the Jewish Alumni Foundation and someone who discovered my Jewish identity while at Vassar, I am truly disappointed and disturbed by the VJU’s decision to become an “Open Hillel”.
I know that Vassar teaches you to embrace various viewpoints and embrace ideas that run counter to your own. But to openly welcome those who actively work to undermine the very existence of the Jewish State and promote horrific anti-Israel sentiment across the globe is irresponsible and destructive. While some will support your decision, I write to tell you that your actions are not at all supported by me.
Some will say that opening your doors to one and all is the “right” thing to do; some will say that openness will foster true community. But this could not be further from the truth. What you have done is open your doors to those who seek to hurt, undermine and/or destroy Israel while making your Hillel an unfriendly, unpleasant and unsafe place for those of us who consider ourselves committed Zionists. In doing so, you have not created an “Open Hillel”. You have slammed many doors.
The world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, Alice Herz-Sommer, died Sunday at the age 110 in London. Herz-Sommer, a pianist, born in Prague, was the subject of a documentary “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life”, nominated for an Oscar this year.
“Young people take everything for granted, whereas we, the elderly, understand nature, “ Herz-Sommer told Haaretz in an interview at age 106. “What I have learned, at my advanced age, is to be grateful that we have a nice life. There is electricity, cars, telegraph, telephone, Internet. We also have hot water all day long. We live like kings. I even got used to the bad weather in London,” she said.
Hezbollah-controlled Al-Manar television last week broadcast its latest “discovery” - that the Jews control Hollywood, and are using it to mind-control hapless Americans.
According to a series of reports broadcast on the station last week,American Jews invented Hollywood and the motion picture business because they felt persecuted in America. The purpose of the movie business was to change the minds of Americans, and propagandize them with messages portraying Jews as good.
An example, the report said, was Superman – the savior who comes to the aid of the world from outer space. As it happens, Superman was created by two Jewish illustrators – Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and while there has been speculation about alleged Jewish components of the story (such as the fact that Superman is an immigrant, as most AmericanJews were, and that his father's name was Kal-El, which contains two Hebrew words), the two have never gone on record as confirming this.
Regardless, Al-Manar said, consuming and enjoying the “Jewish Hollywood culture was very dangerous.” The report featured comments by alleged international expert Professor Farroukh Majdi, who said that “the world must beware the penetration of Jewish culture, and fight against it. If you hurt someone in the heart, the effect is short-term, but if you hurt their mind, the results are for the long-term.”
Yaakov Hagoel, director of the World Zionist Organization's Anti-Semitism monitoring unit, said that “anti-Semitism in the Arab world continues to take a prominent place in society. It is now 2014, but we are still getting the same messages that were distributed on the eve of the Second World War. Generations upon generations are being nurtured by this anti-Semitism, around the world in general and in Arab countries in particular. Many of us laugh when we see these kinds of reports, but the time has come to demand that it stop.
"We will not return to the hatred of the World War II era,” he said, adding “70 years after the Nazis, it is unacceptable that such anti-Semitic incitement can be allowed to continue.”
Ha'aretz has a very nice article about their visit to the Mishor Adumim Industrial Park, where they spoke with happy Arab employees from many companies that work there.
But one part was especially interesting:
The Shweiki glass factory, with its sleek outer façade and interior, stands out among the mostly shabby-looking low-tech plants, carpentries, workshops and garages that populate this industrial zone just outside the Jewish settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim.
But there’s something even more fundamental that sets it apart: Shweiki is an Arab-owned enterprise.
Its ultra-modern glass factory is just a few hundred meters down the road from SodaStream, the company that recently thrust this small industrial park into the international limelight when it hired American celebrity Scarlett Johansson to serve as the global ambassador for its soda machines – at a time when the movement to boycott goods made in the occupied territories is gathering momentum abroad.
But the managers at Shweiki, established in 1936 by an East Jerusalem family, insists that they get an even worse rap than their Jewish counterparts. On the one hand, the Israeli Ministry of Defense refuses to give its seal of approval to the company’s shatterproof glass, while on the other, the Palestinian Authority boycotts its products.
“The Palestinians in Ramallah say we’re no better than the settlers,” explains Amran Shaloud, production manager at the plant, which moved to Mishor Adumim seven years ago.
...“It’s hard for us to hire Jews here because we’re closed on Fridays, but open on Saturday, and that wouldn’t be comfortable for them,” explains Shaloud, whose factory is right next door to Jewish-run Emesh.
Shaloud is taking a late-afternoon break, talking to a friend, Samih Owweida, who runs an aluminum factory down the road.
“As Arabs, we get it from both ends,” gripes Owweida. “I want to sell my stuff in the West Bank, and nobody will buy from me there.”
And then, with a big sigh, he throws up his hands in despair and utters a small prayer: “Let there just be peace already, so we can finish with this whole mess.”
If you're not busy this weekend, Lisa Duggan the President-elect of the American Studies Association, is holding a 'secret' anti-Israel conference, the agenda of which she published (above) on her Facebook page.
But the most curious part is that this conference is supposed to be asecret....
And for those of you - like me - who are solicited multiple times each year for donations to NYU, the university is apparently sponsoring this conference.
It is unclear whether this conference is officially sponsored by NYU itself. The registration webpage says all questions should go to NYU, implying that this is an official university event and not just part of the American Studies Program.
Keep that in mind the next time they ask you to whip out your checkbook.
