Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


November, 2005

Spot the difference…

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

… between George Galloway, a British Member of Parliament and recent visitor to Damascus, where he said this on state television:
I was re-elected despite all the efforts made by the British government, the Zionist movement and the newspapers and news media which are controlled by Zionism.
… and David Duke, the white supremacist and former Ku […]

Urgent appeal

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

This is an appeal to anyone who might be able to help. The ZAKA rescue and disaster charity is in dire financial straits and needs our urgent support. Their website is at http://www.zaka.org.il/en/. The site does accept online donations. Please help in whatever way you can.
From today’s Daily Telegraph:
A Jewish […]

Ahmadinejad: I Am the Messiah

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

From Little Green Footballs:
Iran’s madman “president” Ahmadinejad now seems to believe he is the Mahdi, the “divinely guided one” who will lead Islam to triumph over the infidel: Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech. (Hat tip: Allah.)
Prague, 29 November 2005 (RFE/RL) — According the report by baztab.com, President Ahmadinejad made […]

Israel, Front Line of the Global Jihad

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

by Robert Spencer, FrontPageMagazine.com
Israel has become the world’s new South Africa: the villain du jour, the universal oppressor, the whipping-boy of the United Nations. Its foes have even applied the South African concept of apartheid to its policies. The global Left eagerly propagates the view that Israel, which has been repeatedly attacked by its neighbors, […]

The cost of free speech

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross in The Weekly Standard reminds us that, as the memory of the events surrounding Salman Rushdie fatwa fades, the defence of free speech has not been without cost. He cites this stark account in Wikipedia:
At the University of California at Berkeley, bookstores carrying [The Satanic Verses] were firebombed. . . . Muslim […]

Our World: The Jewish refugees

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post
The Quartet’s envoy and former World Bank president James Wolfensohn is reputed to be quite a deal maker. One of the deals he made as the Quartet’s envoy to the region was the purchase by wealthy American Jews of greenhouses owned by the Jews who were expelled from Gaza this past […]