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Listen to AFI Director Simon McIlwaine interviewed by Tovia Singer on Israel National Radio, 25 Jan 2006. (24 mins.)


October, 2005

Open letter to Christian leaders

Monday, October 31st, 2005

In response to the many accounts of Christians being persecuted in Muslim countries (see, for example, our previous two posts), David Meir-Levi writes an open letter to Christian leaders:
Dear Christian leaders,
Would it not make more sense to demand divestment from Uzbekistan… or from any of the many Arab and Moslem countries that persecute Christians today, […]

House Church Faces Crushing Opposition

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Uzbekistan - Thursday October 20, 2005 Village strongman mounts vicious attack against local Christians.
Kaldibek PrimbetovOctober 20 (Compass) – Christians in a remote village of Uzbekistan are being beaten, publicly humiliated and hounded out of their homes and jobs for converting to Christianity.
Kaldibek Primbetov, leader of the beleaguered group of Protestants in Janbashkala village, near Turtkul […]

MidEast: A Christian-Free Zone?

Monday, October 31st, 2005

by Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com
You saw the images on television this Christmas season – Israeli soldiers patrolling Bethlehem.
You heard the Jews blamed for the unrest in the city of David – the birthplace of Jesus.
This column is about what you didn’t see or hear in those reports – something of an annual journalistic ritual.
The Christian population […]

Demonstration tomorrow at Hackney Empire

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Campaigners have organised a lawful and peaceful protest against the world premier of ‘The skies are weeping,’ a Cantata concert for Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed in Gaza.  While we regret the senseless loss of life of the young idealist, her death has been used and abused as a symbol by anti-Israel protagonists to […]

Wipe Israel off the map, says Iranian leader

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Europe’s leading countries - Britain, France and Germany - have invested a great deal of diplomatic energy discussing with Iran exactly how that country can fulfill its nuclear ambitions in a peaceful manner.  The talks were a complete failure, of course, and merely allowed Iran to press ahead anyway while securing attractive bribes from the […]

Horrific anti-Semitic series now airing on Jordanian TV

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch
The Diaspora (Al-Shatat), a Syrian-produced TV series depicting how Jews, as ideology and religious conviction, are trying to subjugate the entire world, is now being broadcast for the third time in recent years on Arabic language Satellite TV. It was first broadcast in 2003 on Al-Manar (Hizbollah […]