Panoramic view of Tel Aviv

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


General

Ghana’s Israeli flag waver provokes fury

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Many soccer fans following the World Cup will have seen Ghanaian player John Pentsil celebrate his teams goals against the Czech Republic on Saturday by waving the Israeli flag (see report and picture in Haaretz). Pentsil plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv and is one of three Ghana squad members who play for Israeli soccer […]

Books: Now they call me infidel

Monday, June 19th, 2006

We take a slight detour today to recommend that you go from Anglicans for Israel to Arabs for Israel. Nonie Darwish is a brave Arab Muslim woman who has stood up for Israel, and her new book is now available for pre-order.
Now They Call Me Infidel : Why I Rejected Jihad for America, Israel, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Three Seminars on Interfaith Dialogue in the 21st Century

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

In the wake of 9/11, 7/7 and recent decisions taken by the Anglican Church in England about Israel, is there a future for interfaith dialogue? In this series of three dialogues, one Jew and two Christians discuss this very important question and ask whether dialogue without dogma is possible and whether it can contribute to […]

NATO’s new mission

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

From Melanie Phillips’s Diary:
A splendid piece by the former Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Avnar, reminds us of what a tragic day it was for both Spain and the defence of the free world when the Spanish buckled under the threat of terror and replaced him by an appeasement-minded government. Avnar is one of the […]