Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


April, 2006

Statement from Lord Carey

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

An open letter addressed to Lord Carey, originating from a group of clergy in Western Australia was subsequently reported by the Sunday Times (April 16, 2006, ˜Open letter tells Carey: end feud with archbishop). A number of inaccuracies relating to the Letter and the Report are addressed in the statement that follows:
It is with sadness […]

Love Transcendent

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

by Dr Irene Lancaster
A shorter version of this appears in the April 15th edition of the Tablet, p. 24-25 to coincide with the Pope’s first anniversary.
Reading the Pope’s Encyclical on ‘Christian Love’ from a rabbinic perspective, it is remarkable in how many echoes there are. From the outset the Pope emphasizes the primacy of experience […]

Support for Lord Carey

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

An Open Letter from AFI to the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey:
Dear Lord Carey
I was appalled to read in the Sunday Times of the attacks on you by several members of our Church at the weekend.
Our friends and supporters within both the Anglican and Jewish communities share your sadness at these unfair criticisms […]

A letter to Rev Stephen Sizer

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

We are pleased to publish below a letter sent last week by one of our supporters to the Rev. Stephen Sizer, one of the leaders of the divestment campaign:
Dear Rev Dr Sizer
Having lived in the past for eight years in Israel, two of which were spent in the Palestinian Arab village of Bet Fajeh, Biblical […]

Murder in Jericho

Monday, April 17th, 2006

by P. David Hornik, FrontPageMagazine.com
Last Thursday morning Palestinian police found the burned body of Muhammad Abu al-Hawa in his torched car in Jericho. He had been shot seven times in the head and chest, and according to the Jerusalem Post’s intrepid Abu Khaled Toameh had been “brutally tortured before his car was set on fire.” […]

The Latest Zionist Conspiracy

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Hamas explains why American Christians support Israel.
by Mark D. Tooley, The Daily Standard
A PROMINENT HAMAS member of parliament has explained why most American Christians support Israel. The churches are run by “converted” Jews who are exploiting Christians for Zionist purposes. “Even the churches where the Americans pray are led by Jews who were converted to […]