Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


May, 2006

Presbyterians: Divestment is a Costly Mistake

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

From Larry Rued of Concerned Presbyterians :
Two years ago, Presbyterian Church USA leaders began a divestment of corporations doing business in Israel. Since then, thousands of writers have written millions of words on the topic. Today, a Google search with keywords (Presbyterian(s), Israel, and Divestment) produces 181,000 hits.
Missing in the 181,000 results […]

Israel “behind both world wars”

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Israel is blamed for many things, but bizarrely Syria has now accused Israel - founded in 1948 - of being behind both World War I and World War II! It happened at a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, called to discuss terrorism. As reported in the Jerusalem Post:
The [Israeli] ambassador said Israel […]

Explaining the Jews

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

by Dennis Prager, FrontPageMagazine
Imagine someone saying that he seeks the destruction of Italy because he regards Italian national identity as racist. Further, imagine that this person constantly denies being anti-Italian, because he does not hate all Italians, only Italy and all those who believe Italy should exist.
Now substitute “Jewish” for “Italian” and “Israel” for “Italy” […]

Insidious Threat

Monday, May 29th, 2006

From the International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB):
The Idea of a ‘Grey Boycott’ Represents an Insidious Threat to the World of Academia
NATFHE Boycott Resolution passes (106:71)
Ramat Gan, Israel — The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) at Bar-Ilan University today expressed its deep dissatisfaction with the National Association of Teachers in Further and […]

One Jerusalem

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Yesterday was Jerusalem Day, a Yom tov, when we celebrated the liberation of the Holy City in 1967and remembered those who gave their lives in Zion’s defence in
1967. Let us never forget that freedom has a painful price. Forty years ago Jerusalem was a divided city, a border city, with sniper […]

An extraordinary find

Friday, May 26th, 2006

An extraordinary recording was recently found of the survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp singing Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, at the time that the camp was liberated. Some of the words are different to those sung today but are from the original Inbar poem. The narration is from a BBC broadcast in […]