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

Operation “Prayer Shield” for Israel

Friday, May 26th, 2006

by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
What a difference a few minutes can make.
That thought must surely be running through the minds of dozens of parents and teenagers at the HaNativ HaYeshivati high school in Sderot, after a Palestinian Kassam rocket slammed through the roof of a classroom there this past Sunday.
The day had started like any […]

Stop the ISM activists

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

It looks like an innocent social gathering in Massachusetts, but this particular social gathering is of a support group associated with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an organization that sends volunteers into Israel and the West Bank to act as “human shields” against Israeli attempts to counter violence and terrorism from Palestinians.
In 2003, Lee Kaplan […]

Apocalypse Soon?

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

This talk was given to The Freedom Association on 23rd May 2006 by AFI patron Revd Dr Peter Mullen.
A few years ago – certainly before 9/11 – I was at a US Liberty Fund conference and we were discussing the Cold War. In the final session someone tried to bring together the various strands of […]

Church of Scotland rejects boycott

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

We are pleased to announce that the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has accepted a motion which calls upon the Foreign Secretary to use her influence both as the representative of Her Majesty’s Government and in co-operation with her colleagues within the EU to encourage HAMAS to issue a statement accepting […]

AFI acts against BBC bias

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

A letter to Mark Thomson, Director-General of the BBC, from Simon McIlwaine of Anglicans for Israel:
Dear Mr Thomson
I wish to complain about the outrageous allegation on the BBC website that: “All Israeli settlements within land occupied during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war are judged illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. ”
This is utter rubbish! […]

Liberation Theology in the Middle East

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

by Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine (links in original)
“Liberation Theology” was the theological justification for Western church groups that backed Marxist revolution 20 and 30 years ago. Its influence waned with those failed revolutions, especially in Latin America, but it continues to shape intellectual life in the Middle East, as a tool against Israel.
The Jerusalem-based […]