Financing Mideast Flames – Confronting BDS and the New Israel Fund
Financing Mideast Flames – Confronting BDS and the New Israel Fund by Edwin Black, algemeiner.com, Feb. 28, 2014 Click here for article
Read More →Boy with Cancer Fulfils His Dream aboard an Israel Navy Ship
Roey has always dreamed of being an Israeli sailor. Along with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the IDF was able to grant Roey’s request. “One day I’ll earn my own navy pin,” the boy said. From the window of his room at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, while being treated for cancer, Roey saw his first IDF navy vessel. […]
Read More →Britain: Islamists Create Climate of Fear to Curb Free Speech
Britain: Islamists Create Climate of Fear to Curb Free Speech by Soeren Kern, gatestoneintitute.org, Feb. 28, 2014 Click here for article
Read More →The American Jewish fairness trap
The American Jewish fairness trap by Alexander H. Joffe, The Times of Israel & Middle East Forum, Feb. 27, 2014 “Four recent incidents illustrate how American Jewish institutions are manipulated to subvert support for Israel. Call it the fairness trap. Vassar Hillel announced it would join its counterpart at Swarthmore and reject Hillel International’s guidelines prohibiting anti-Israel […]
Read More →New Zealand Group Aims to Boycott Jewish Culture (strongly worded response)
New Zealand Group Aims to Boycott Jewish Culture – John Daly-Peoples (National Business Review-New Zealand) (Daily Alert, Feb. 28, 2014) The spirit of Nazi Germany will be on the streets this Saturday in Wellington, with a protest against the visiting Batsheva Dance Company, which is performing as part of the New Zealand Festival. Pro-Palestinian […]
Read More →Sisters in Arms: The Burgeoning Defense Trade between Israel and India
Sisters in Arms: The Burgeoning Defense Trade between Israel and India – Amos Harel (Daily Alert) Even though India continues to maintain extensive relations with the Arab world, its commitment to the Palestinian cause seems to have slackened in the past two decades and its leaders have stopped clashing with Israel over the subject. At the […]
Read More →High-Tech Israelis (& Israel’s trade with Britain)
High-Tech Israelis – Inna Lazareva (Daily Alert, Feb. 28, 2014) At a tech conference in London last year, Keren Elazari, 32, an Israeli cyber security expert, hacked into hundreds of mobile phones, demonstrating the devices’ lack of security. Armed with a PC from the age of ten and encouraged by her inventor parents, Keren trained herself […]
Read More →Syrian Kurds Are Working on a Constitution
Syrian Kurds Are Working on a Constitution – Robert Fulford (National Post-Canada) (Daily Alert, Feb. 28, 2014) Kurds are now effectively running parts of Syria. In Qamishli, a northeastern Syrian city of 200,000, the Kurds are working on a constitution. Amidst the chaos of Syria’s civil war, they are acting a lot like a […]
Read More →Origin of the Palestinian Claim of a “Right of Return”
Origin of the Palestinian Claim of a “Right of Return” – Richard Schifter (Daily Alert, Feb. 28, 2014) In 1948, following the establishment of the State of Israel and the war launched immediately thereafter by the Arab states, many Arabs fled from the territory of Israel, quite a number of them encouraged by radio messages from […]
Read More →Rise in “Honor Killings” of Palestinian Women by Relatives
Rise in “Honor Killings” of Palestinian Women by Relatives – Mohammed Daraghmeh and Ibrahim Barzak (AP-ABC News) (Daily Alert, Feb. 28, 2014) 26 women were slain by relatives in the West Bank and Gaza in 2013 for allegedly shaming the family, twice as many as the year before. So-called “honor killings” are […]
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