Another University of California, Irvine (UCI) week of hate against the Jewish state of Israel has wrapped up, and I would like to add a few post-mortem thoughts. Several of my friends have remarked that the steam seems to have gone out of the Muslim Student Union’s (MSU) Israel Apartheid, Continue Reading »

Israeli diplomats say Ireland one of the top three countries in Europe in terms of anti-Israel hostility; Irish Justice Minister accuses activists of ‘cyberbullying.’ Irish writer Gerard Donovan has attacked the pro-Palestinian boycott movement for trying to “bully” him to abstain from visiting Israel and take part in the International Continue Reading »

A United Church of Canada minister has started a campaign to get rank-and-file members to reject a proposal from the church’s hierarchy to launch an economic boycott against Israel. “I really want to believe this is the workings of a very active minority in the church,” said Andrew Love, a Continue Reading »

Op-ed: Anti-Israel campaign identifies Jews as immoral, Jewish state as historical fraud It’s Jew-hating time, again. No cross-burnings or bomb-wearing psychos screaming for Allah. It’s sophisticated, draped by UN and EU glitz, banal reports about Israeli atrocities, and Palestinian liberation. It’s so holy, so morally pompous, and fashionable. Criticizing Israel Continue Reading »

National squad can’t afford new uniforms after Arab ministers call for boycott on sportswear firm following Jerusalem Marathon An Arab boycott of Adidas, ordered because the sportswear firm sponsored a race in Israel last month, has knitted Egypt’s national soccer team into a corner. The head of the Arab Council of Continue Reading »

In the past few months, the Tufts campus has seen its fair share of debate about the Israel/Palestine issue. On Friday, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) brought University of California Berkeley professor and anti-Zionist advocate Judith Butler to speak. Excluding the content of her speech, her self-identification as Continue Reading »

On tonight’s Daily Show, reporter Samantha Bee traveled to Park Slope, Brooklyn to get some first hand accounts of the fight over a proposed ban on Israeli products being waged within the Park Slope Food Coop. As expected, her report highlights the ridiculousness on both sides of the issue and Continue Reading »

In Syria, the Assad regime continues to rain artillery on rebel positions in the city of Homs, killing journalists and innocent civilians alike. Iran’s mullahs are set to execute a Canadian citizen for the crime of operating a website they don’t like. The new Libyan regime is torturing Gaddafi loyalists. Continue Reading »

Op-ed: Israel Apartheid Week agitators could not care less about promoting Mideast peace Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called “Israel Apartheid Week.” With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are Continue Reading »

Although BDS activists have convinced many to cancel performances here, the movement has not been able to exert the economic pressure on Israel it wishes to achieve. American jazz musician Cassandra Wilson who decided at the last minute to cancel her planned performance at the Holon Women’s Festival today joins Continue Reading »