Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


October, 2005

Poem praising murder of Jews

Monday, October 24th, 2005

It might be thought that acquiring an understanding of the Holocaust in school history lessons would mean conveying the horrors of the attempt to eliminate the Jews from Europe.  In our post-modern destruction of values, however, ‘understanding’ means seeing things from different points of view - including, apparently, Adolf Hitler’s.  Ruth Gledhill, the religious affairs […]

Other Palestinians, not IDF, cause most Arab deaths

Friday, October 21st, 2005

"Security chaos" in West Bank and GazaTuesday, October 18, 2005by Joshua Mitnick, The Washington Times
More Palestinians have been killed this year by fellow Palestinians than by Israeli soldiers, according to a Palestinian government report released this week.
In the latest sign that chaos in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is displacing the uprising against Israel […]

Fatah uses kids for terror

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Terrorists to boy: commit suicide attack or we’ll kill youFriday, October 14, 2005 By: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
from Arutz Sheva
Israeli security personnel revealed that Arab terrorists, including a high ranking PA intelligence officer, threatened to kill a 14-year-old boy if he did not carry out a suicide bombing.
The IDF announced on Wednesday afternoon, before the […]

Thousands of Christians march in solidarity

Friday, October 21st, 2005

5,000 Christians show solidarity in Succot Jerusalem March
by David Bradley, published in the Jerusalem Post
Thousands gathered along the streets of downtown Jerusalem Thursday for the annual Succot Jerusalem March.
The march, which started from thee points on the outskirts of Jerusalem along two routes of either 10 or 14 kilometers, featured some 10,000 Israelis performing traditional […]

“Road apartheid slur” debunked

Friday, October 21st, 2005

On Sunday (Oct. 16), Palestinian terrorists killed three young Israelis in a drive-by terrorist shooting in the West Bank (pictured at right). In response to pointed warnings of more attacks of this type, the IDF imposed restrictions on Palestinian traffic on certain West Bank roads.
Though the road closures were temporary and aimed at preventing further […]

Truth and Lies, Number 1

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Chris Hedges, in the September/October edition of Harper’s, wrote “A Gaza Diary: Scenes from the Palestinian Uprising,” which is widely quoted by Israel’s critics.  Below is a point-by-point refutation by CAMERA. 
Chris Hedges, Harpers, and IsraelNovember 7, 2001
Chris Hedges’ “A Gaza Diary: Scenes from the Palestinian Uprising,” published in the September/October edition of Harper’s, is […]