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Campaign against anti-Semitism, or else

A petition telling Amnesty International to focus on “anti-Semitism” is pushed by The Israel Project, which published a 116 page propaganda manual to cover up Israeli crimes… Stuart Littlewood, Shoa.org.uk – Here’s a petition that just landed in my Inbox: Amnesty International’s annual conference has rejected a motion to fight the rise of violent anti-Semitism […]

Introducing Birthright for Evangelical Christians

Participants in the trip were transformed into enthusiastic pro-Israel advocacy messengers… Nathan Guttman, Forward – Conservative Jewish funders and Christian donors of Hobby Lobby fame have joined forces to launch a Christian Birthright trip, modeled after the successful program that has taken thousands of Jewish young adults to Israel for the past 16 years. Covenant […]

The Nakba: A Crime Watched, Ignored and Remembered – Ilan Pappe

The people were driven out, many of them long before the Arab units entered Palestine, but the houses, shops, schools, mosques and hospitals were still there. What could not have escaped the UN observers is the sound of the tractors flattening these buildings…… Israeli bohemians, yuppies and desperate newly arrived Jewish immigrants “saved” some of […]

Amnesty International: Imperialis​t Tool, By Francis Boyle

While on the Amnesty International Board I once saw the itinerary drawn up by Amnesty USA for the visit to the United States by the then Amnesty Secretary General coming from London. On the list was almost every major pro-Israel group in New York and Washington and about one Arab Group. Given their standard operating […]

Reassessing US aid to Israel – Allan C. Brownfeld

The new Justice minister, Ayelet Sheked, justified the burning alive of a Palestinian teenager by Israeli youths in East Jerusalem…. Rabbi Eli  Ben-Dahan, the new deputy defense minister, declared: “(Palestinians) are beasts, they are not humans” and  “A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.” CommDigiNews […]

Jews, Non-Jews, and the New Israeli Government—by Peter Eisenstadt

The Birthright group leader made the following statement. He said he had Italian neighbors “and they’re wonderful, but if I had to decide whether to save their lives or the life of one Jew, I would choose to save the Jew. If I had to choose to save 100 non-Jews or one Jew, I would […]

Allen West thought he was the victim of “Sharia Law” at Walmart (He wasn’t)

Unlike West’s prejudiced conclusion, the actual reason the clerk couldn’t sell him alcohol was because the clerk was under the age of 21, a Walmart policy. MediaMatters – Fox News contributor Allen West went to Walmart and thought he was the victim of “Sharia law” because a checkout clerk under the age of 21 couldn’t […]

Setting the Record Straight: The Greenhouse propaganda—How Gazan history was rewritten to dehumanize Palestinians

Two months prior to the withdrawal, in July of 2005, Israeli settlers demolished about half of the greenhouses…. By Justin Schweigel –According to the history being written by Clinton and Krauthammer, Ariel Sharon made the decision to pull out of Gaza as a goodwill gesture toward peace and left the greenhouses behind so that Palestinians […]

AIPAC-backed amendments add to trade bill turmoil

Critics say provision discouraging boycotts of Israel could legitimize West Bank settlements. Politico – The trade legislation being debated on Capitol Hill is already highly contentious. Amendments added about Israel are raising the rancor even more.The trade bill amendments aim to discourage foreign governments — in particular European ones — from boycotting, divesting from or […]

Meet Robert Shillman, the Tech Mogul Who Funds Pamela Geller’s Anti-Islam Push

In 2002, Shillman pulled funding from WBUR, an NPR station in Boston, for what he perceived as anti-Israel sentiment…… His Shillman Foundation has funded a number of conservative and pro-Israeli groups, including the Zionist Organization of America… The Forward/Reuters, May 9, 2015 – By Tim McLaughlin and Mark Hosenball Robert Shillman heads a publicly traded […]

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