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| May 16, 2013
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Boycott Israel event in Jerusalem funded by UK & promoted by UN employes

British MP: “It’s a fringe campaign that is…anti-peace, the government shouldn’t be directly or indirectly funding this movement.’

Member of the European Parliament: “It’s equally unacceptable a UN official should be promoting this event through his official email address,”

By JONNY PAUL, BENJAMIN WEINTHAL JERUSALEM POST

 

 

LONDON/BERLIN – A British-funded institute in Jerusalem has come under fire for hosting an event supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel (BDS), along with a UN staff member who circulated its details in an official email to co-workers.

A sign in Sweden calls for Israel boycotts.

A sign in Sweden calls for Israel boycotts. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

In March, the Kenyon Institute, also known as the British School of Archaeology, hosted an event titled “The emergence of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement” – a campaign led by radical anti-Israel activists also known as BDS – at its East Jerusalem headquarters.

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| May 16, 2013
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J’lem Post REVEALED: British gov’t funds Israel boycott activists

Shocking new information as Israel’s English daily, The Jerusalem Post reveals that the British gov’t actively funds anti-Israel organizations & speakers.

by The Commentator

 

 

New information has come to light about British government funding for anti-Israel activists who promote boycotts, divestment (BDS) and sanctions against the State of Israel – a country which Britain maintains a close relationship with.

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From The Commentator

 

The news, which has surfaced following an investigation by the Jerusalem Post, shows that the British Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is providing funding to an organisation which promotes anti-Israel speakers and encourages the boycott  movement around the world. Continue Reading »

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| May 15, 2013
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‘Picture of the Year’ a photoshopped fraud, ‘underwent massive manipulation’

Tech site claims lab investigation exposes World Press Photo’s picture of year as digitally modified out of number of photos, seriously enhanced.

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Swedish photographer Paul Hansen’s photo, called “Gaza Burial” and portraying a Gaza funeral procession for children killed during Operation Pillar of Defense, is inspiring controversy worldwide in recent days, but this time for artistic – and not political – reasons.

תמונת השנה בעולם. התערבות מוגזמת של הצלם? (צילום: AFP)

Gaza Burial. Hansen – Photo: AFP

The reason, tech blog Extremtech claims the picture underwent massive manipulation and was put together from a number of different photographs with the help of photoshop.

Despite the fact the Operation Pillar of Defense ended with a considerably low number of civilian fatalities in comparison to Operation Cast Lead four year earlier; upon publication, Hansen’s picture hit Israeli hasbara missions hard. Continue Reading »

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| May 3, 2013
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Column One: Dershowitz & Current Realities

Dershowitz apparently does not think that it is important to focus on the nature of things in the Islamic world, the realities, rather, he places his faith in his power to shape the future through his intellect & his willingness to compromise.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

 

 

 
There are two main reasons that many leftists who are viscerally supportive of Israel have difficulty understanding and defending the Jewish state today. First, the storyline about Israel is deeply distorted.
Alan Dershowitz at Jpost Conference

Alan Dershowitz at Jpost Conference – Photo: Screenshot

For instance, this week, Freedom House released its annual report on press freedom around the world.

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| April 10, 2013
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Jews Still Planning to Sue Jimmy Carter over Anti-Israel Book

“It is, indeed, a sad day for all of us as Americans, when a former President demeans the dignity of his office by intentionally misstating critically important facts concerning events of great historic significance and public interest, simply to advance a personal anti-Israel animus and to foster the agenda of the enemies of Israel who pump so much money into the Center which bears his name.”

By: Yori Yanover

 

Asserting that no individual has done more than former President Jimmy Carter to defame Israel and to challenge its right to exist, a group of readers filed a class action suit against Carter and the Simon & Schuster publishing company, back in February, 2011, alleging that Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” contains numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised. Continue Reading »

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| March 7, 2013
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Terra incognita: Separating Facts from Fiction on ‘Palestinian bus line’

Every published story about the ‘segregated Palestinian only’ bus line was a spin, based on ignorance or meanness, of the true situation.

 

The Twainist witticism of the “lie traveling halfway round the world while the truth puts on its socks” was never more true than with regard to this week’s story about Israel inaugurating “segregated bus lines.”
התור לאוטובוסים ביום הראשון להפעלתם (צילום: גור דותן)

Commotion on the bus lines – Photo: Gur Dotan

is story began with Israeli media reporting Sunday: “Israel introduces ‘Palestinian only’ bus lines, following complaints from Jewish settlers” (Chaim Levinson, Haaretz). The mainstream newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported on “Separate but equal bus lines?”

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| February 16, 2013
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Intelsat Removes Iran’s Channel PressTV from U.S. & Canada

Iran’s national Press TV has a history of notoriously promoting Holocaust denial & giving air-time to neo-Nazi propaganda.

By Gil Ronen

 

Pro-Israel media activist group HonestReporting Canada welcomed news on Saturday that global satellite communication provider Intelsat had removed Iran’s state-funded propaganda mouthpiece PressTV from its broadcast platform in Canada and the United States.

PressTVThe NGO expressed its concern, however, that PressTV is still accessible over Intelsat’s Galaxy 19 platform.

HonestReporting Canada Executive Director Mike Fegelman issued the following statement:

“Intelsat’s move falls directly in line with other important domestic and international efforts to sanction, isolate, and impede the Iranian regime’s efforts in procuring nuclear weaponry. Continue Reading »

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| February 7, 2013
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After being ridiculed, reporter apologizes for suggesting Israel bribed Bulgaria

Daragahi, a correspondent for the Financial Times only apologized after a harsh statement concerning his comment by HonestReporting.

By JTA

 

A correspondent for the Financial Times apologized for suggesting that Israel may have bribed Bulgaria to frame Hezbollah.

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“Sincere apologies and regret for ill-conceived tweet yesterday about Israel and Bulgaria,” Borzou Daragahi, the London-based newspaper’s Middle East and North Africa correspondent, wrote Wednesday on Twitter.

The previous day Daragahi had tweeted, “I don’t doubt Hezbollah/Iran could be behind Bulgaria bombing, but also think Israel could pay Sofia to say anything.” He included a URL of a Reuters article quoting Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov as blaming two Hezbollah operatives for the July 18 bus bombing in Burgas in which six people were killed, including five Israeli tourists. Continue Reading »

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| February 5, 2013
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Education Minister Says Study Claiming Palestinian Textbooks Don’t Vilify Jews “biased & unprofessional”

In contrast to the cold Israeli reaction, the office of Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad released a statement saying that he “expresses his satisfaction with a main finding of a study … that confirms that Palestinian textbooks do not contain any form of blatant incitement, which is based on contempt towards the ‘other’.”

 

By Nathan Jeffay

 

Controversy quickly engulfed a new study that said Palestinian textbooks do not incite hatred for Jews with Israel blasting the report — with some members of the report’s advisory panel claiming they were blindsided by its release.

Gidon Saar – Levy dudy/Wikimedia

Bar Ilan University Talmud professor Daniel Sperber, a member of the panel, slammed the decision to release the report when Israeli-Palestinian relations are strained and when Israel is in-between governments. Continue Reading »

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| January 30, 2013
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Cartoonist of anti-Israel illustration apologizes for timing of publication

“I am not, and never have been, anti-Semitic.” declares Gerald Scarfe

By JTA

 

The illustrator of an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement apologized for the timing of its publication.

This anti-Israel cartoon that appeared in the Sunday Times of London on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was called a 'modern day evocation of the ancient blood libel charge.' (From Sunday Times)

Anti-Israel cartoon appeared in the Sunday Times of London on Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day

In a statement printed on his official website, Gerald Scarfe emphasized that “I am not, and never have been, anti-Semitic.”

He said the drawing, published Jan. 27 — International Holocaust Memorial Day — in the Sunday Times, was “a criticism of Netanyahu, and not of the Jewish people: there was no slight whatsoever intended against them.” Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2013
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Israeli ambassador appalled at ‘Der Spiegel’ columnist

German envoy says comparison of Gaza to concentration camp, “shameful.” He warns of “rising left-wing anti-Semitism”.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST CORRESPONDENT

 

BERLIN – Israel’s Ambassador to Germany,Yaakov Hadas-Handelsman, weighed in on the heated row over the alleged anti-Semitism of Der Spiegel columnist Jakob Augstein and growing left-wing anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic.

Jakob Augstein

Jakob Augstein Photo: Wikimedia Commons

“That is shameful,”said Hadas-Handelsman of Augstein’s comparison between the Gaza Strip and a concentration camp. The Israeli ambassador gave a wide-ranging interview on Saturday to the daily Rheinische Post, a regional paper in Düsseldorf.

When asked whether Augstein is an anti-Semite, Hadas-Handelsman said he could not delve into the psyche of anti-Israel authors and journalists like Guenther Grass and Augstein to determine if they are anti-Semites. Continue Reading »

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| January 13, 2013
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Arab cartoonists bash Israel, the U.S. & fellow Arab Countries

Arab caricaturists never held back criticism for the Jewish state.

Assault on Gaza returned Israel to media’s center stage after Arab spring stole its spotlight.

By Roi Kais

 

Political cartoonists across the Arab world have never spared criticism for Israel, but the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip this past November has spurred them to step up the satirical reproach of the Jewish state.

קריקטורה בזמן עמוד ענן. ישראל אוכלת את הפלסטינים במזלג אמריקני ובסכין שעליה כתוב "השתיקה הערבית"

Cartoon published during Gaza hostilities. Caption on knife: Arab silence

“Operation Pillar of Defense has regained Israel its traditional spot in the caricature arena, after it lost the center stage to the Arab Spring,” one prominent cartoonist, who asked to remain anonymous, told Ynet. Continue Reading »

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| January 6, 2013
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UK publishing firm apologizes for ‘wiping Israel off the map’

“This was a serious editorial error and was subsequently corrected. The book in question has not been in print for several years.” from the publisher, Garnet Education.

By JTA

 

A British publishing firm reportedly apologized for replacing Israel with an entity called “Occupied Palestine” in a textbook.

British textbook erases Israel

British textbook erases Israel

According to The Commentator, a British website and blogging platform, the apology came in an unsigned email from the publisher, Garnet Education.

“Unfortunately the map was mislabeled ‘Occupied Palestine,’” the email said. “This was a serious editorial error and was subsequently corrected. The book in question has not been in print for several years.”

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| December 31, 2012
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UK English textbook erases Israel

Not only in the Middle East, students are taught that Israel has no right to exist. The more students around the world are fed this brand of propaganda, the more remote prospects for any true peace to happen.

By Ryan Jones

 

A popular textbook used by institutions and teachers to teach English as a second language to students in the UK has been found to have a serious anti-Israel bias.

British textbook erases Israel

British textbook erases Israel

“I teach English as a foreign language in a further education college in Nottingham, England. I came across the attached map and couldn’t believe my eyes!” Continue Reading »

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| December 26, 2012
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Lee Habeeb on Arabs Like Me

Despising Israel the way Israel is despised in much of the Arab world is all about anti-Semitism. And most anti-Semitism anywhere in the world has its origins in envy.

Maybe, just maybe, Arabs can break out of their self-destructive hatred and envy.

By Lee Habeeb

 

There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who don’t. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter.

I am not proud to say that. Arabs will not like me for admitting it. But it is true. And it is something I wish the Obama administration understood. Continue Reading »

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