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

New weblog by Irene Lancaster

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Regular readers will know that Dr Irene Lancaster is one of our advisors and helps us particularly on interfaith issues and matters concerning the academic community. Those working in universities in the UK may know that there are similar anti-Israeli moves to those being undertaken in the Church, with repeated attempts to gather support […]

American suicide bombing victim dies

Monday, May 15th, 2006

From Jerusalem Post
Daniel Wultz, the 16-year-old American tourist who was critically wounded in the Pessah suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, died of his wounds on Sunday, the Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital) in Tel Aviv said.
Wultz’s passing brings the death toll in the attack to 11, only two days after another victim, 26-year-old Lior […]

David and Goliath

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

by Asaf Romirowsky, FrontPageMagazine
The perception of Palestinians as victims has become the most powerful marketing tool Palestinians have and no one uses it more effectively. Time after time we have seen Palestinian figureheads like Michael Terazi and Hanan Ashwari plead the Palestinian cause and point to the Israeli “occupation” as the root cause of all […]

New U.K. attempt to boycott Israeli universities, professors

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

More drivel from the UK’s academic community:
The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
The boycott motion, which was drafted by the southeast region […]

Anglican Documentation Website On Holy Land

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

A new section of the Anglican Communion website has been established. This seeks to collect together statements by a range of official Anglican bodies relating to the situation in the Holy Land (Israel/Palestine). It also includes resources and documentation relating to Anglican-Jewish relations. Clare Amos, the Director of Theological Studies, who has taken responsibility for […]

Thought for the Week Audio Link

Friday, May 5th, 2006

A number of people have asked us if we have an audio recording of Dr Irene Lancaster’s Thought for the Week broadcast on the BBC last week. You can listen to it via the BBC site here (requires RealPlayer).