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


United Nations

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! […]

The UN and Terrorism: Moral relativism at its worst

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

by Anne Bayefsky, Eye on the UN, 22 May 2006
Tomorrow President Bush will host Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House at the same time that former President Jimmy Carter will host UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour in Atlanta. The difference between the two envoys, both traveling under the banner […]

UN envoy: It’s all the Jews’ fault

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

by Ryan Jones, Jerusalem Newswire
Almost completely disregarding Palestinian Arab aggression against Israel’s Jews, a United Nations envoy has sought to lay the blame for regional conflict at the doorstep of the Jewish state by misrepresenting and exaggerating Israel’s defensive measures and isolated acts of frustration.
In a special report prepared for next week’s annual meeting of […]

UN response ‘inadequate’

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

From the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA):
New York - The ZOA has described as unacceptable the official response of the United Nations to a letter from the US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, posing questions to the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, regarding the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” held last November in […]

Eliminating Israel politely

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, 13 December 2005
There is a right way and a wrong way, strangely, to call for the elimination of Israel.
The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, provided an example of both ways in recent weeks. When the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated on October 26 that "the regime […]

Israel wiped off the map at UN

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

From Naomi Ragen:
While the head of Iran openly talks about wiping Israel off the map, the UN already has. Check out the UN solidarity day with Palestinian terrorists: http://www.eyeontheun.org/. Anne Bayefsky of Eye on the UN has asked the US to withhold funding from the UN. The time has come for Americans […]