Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


December, 2005

Some facts, Archbishop…

Friday, December 30th, 2005

A letter sent to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster by a friend of Anglicans for Israel:
Dear Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor,
I was deeply disturbed to read your Christmas comments concerning Bethlehem, suggesting the economy of the area was ‘in shreds,’ due to the Israeli security wall resulting in the town being ‘coralled’ and ‘blocked in’.
If you had […]

Die anywhere you like, but don’t die here

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch

“Be gone. Die anywhere you like, but don’t die here.”
PA TV program on Jaffa (Tel Aviv):
“It is time for you [Israelis] to be gone. Live wherever you like, but don’t live among us. It is time for you to be gone. Die wherever you like, but […]

Season’s Greetings for Christmas and Hanukkah

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

This year we are delighted that Christmas Day and the first of the 8 days of Hanukkah both fall on the same day. We invite our Fellow Christians to take a few moments to learn more about this Jewish festival, and to our Jewish brothers and sisters: “Chag sameach!!”
Hanukkah, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“Hanukkah […]

Message from the Knesset

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

We are honoured to receive this message from the Member of the Knesset of Israel (MK) Dr Yuri Shtern, Chairman of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus:
Dear Christian Ally,
On behalf of the members of the Christian Allies Caucus and the Knesset of Israel, we wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New […]

Iranian TV Blood Libel

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

From MEMRI, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater:
Iranian TV Blood Libel: Jewish Rabbis Killed Hundreds of European Children to use Their Blood for Passover Holiday & Discussion on Holocaust Denial
To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit http://wwwmemri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD105305
The following are excerpts from a TV discussion with Iranian political analysts Dr. Hasan Hanizadeh(1) and Dr. Ali-Reza Akbari, […]

Iranian embassy vigil

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

AFI received this notice today:
Further to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments last month that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, the President has now said that the Holocaust is a ‘myth’ and that Europeans have used it to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world. He […]