Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


June, 2006

Anti-Israel Divestment Campaign Stalls

Friday, June 16th, 2006

by Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine
The campaign to divest in firms doing business with Israel largely failed to gain traction on U.S. university campuses. It then moved to U.S. mainline churches, gaining victory in 2004 when the 3 million member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to divest in corporations, like Caterpillar Tractor, that sell to or […]

Iran’s “nuclear defense”

Friday, June 16th, 2006

The Jerusalem Post reports that the Iranians are making plans to defend themselves:
Iran’s defense minister on Thursday vowed that his country would “use nuclear defense as a potential” if “threatened by any power.”
Forgive us for pointing out the obvious, but Iran is a country that is supposedly not developing nuclear weapons. How is it […]

So who is really responsible?

Friday, June 16th, 2006

The facts about who was responsible for last week’s incident in which a family was killed on a Gaza beach are disputed. The Israelis argue that it could not have been one of their shells and may have been caused by Hamas placing mines on the beach. But Charles Krauthammer seeks to identify […]

Rescind anti-Israeli resolutions

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

From the Simon Wiesenthal Center:
Ever since the infamous Durban UN Conference on the eve of 9/11, the international campaign to delegitimize and demonize Israel through one-sided and unfair resolutions by churches, academicians and by non-governmental organizations continues unabated.

Just last year, many joined our petition campaign protesting to the United Church of Christ (UCC) over the […]

Presbyterians for Israel

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

As the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly begins tomorrow, here is a list of Presbyterian Church USA bloggers who are decidedly pro-Israel (with thanks to Larry Rued):
Classical Presbyterian— http://classicalpresbyterian.blogspot.com/
Truth in Love Network— http://blog.pcusaelders.org/
Moral Science Club— http://moralscienceclub.blogspot.com/
Full Court Presby— http://fullcourtpresby.blogspot.com/
Quotian Grace—- http://www.quotidiangrace.blogspot.com/
Noel K. Anderson— http://web.mac.com/noela/iWeb/GA%20upbeat/Blog/Blog.html

False reporting

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Will this story from Palestinian Media Watch get as much coverage as the original story about the deaths of a family on a Gaza beach?
PA TV falsifies video of Gaza deaths
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, June 12, 2006
Palestinian Authority TV has been repeatedly broadcasting a falsified video clip of the events surrounding the deaths […]