Here’s the latest installment in our monthly round-up of BDS fails. (When debating those who contend that BDS is succeeding, consider citing some of these examples.) Economic BDS Fails: Florida becomes 5th […]
Earlier we posted about a Guardian report which legitimized baseless accusations that Israeli police are planting knives on innocent Palestinians after summarily executing them. Additionally, a new Amnesty International report on Israel buttresses this Palestinian […]
Here’s the full-page ad which appeared in the print edition of today’s Guardian. (The ad was signed by 343 “scholars”, or less than one a quarter of 1% of the roughly 195,000 academics working in […]
Robert Tait of The Telegraph published a story on April 13th based on a new 74-page report by Human Rights Watch (Israel: Settlement Agriculture Harms Palestinian Children) claiming that Palestinian children “as […]
A rocket attack that killed 11 Gazan children and hit a hospital during the summer war was the work of Palestinian terrorists, not an IDF strike, according to a report by Amnesty […]
A British lawyer named Roy Amlot wrote an op-ed for The Times, ‘West Bank: justice in the military courts‘, Nov. 14, recounting his recent experiences visiting the West Bank “to observe the military […]
There is little debate that the continuing international phenomenon of child marriages represents a serious human rights violation. Indeed, it is estimated that more than 142 million girls will be coerced into […]
A guest post by Gidon Ben-Zvi Poor Harriet Sherwood, missing the big picture while obsessively reporting about the latest round of Middle East peace talks that promise to end the six-decade-old Israeli-Palestinian […]
A guest post by Joe Geary There is a country in the Middle East which makes a great play of being a democracy and about espousing Western ideals regarding human rights, and […]
In late February, the Guardian devoted six separate news items (three stories and three photo posts) to the death of a Palestinian – named Arafat Jaradat – in an Israeli jail. The stories, […]
This post goes out to Israel’s critics. Take the Dershowitz challenge. Name one country in history with a better human rights than Israel when faced with comparable military and strategic threats.
Dear Harriet, Recently you and some apparently intrepid ‘human rights operatives’ went out for a sail with a fleet of Gazan fishermen to experience for yourselves how Israeli ships patrol the sea off […]
This essay was written by Hadar Sela, and published in The Propagandist The recent incidents on the streets of countries as far apart asLibya and Bahrain, Tunisia and Iran have riveted the […]
Earlier this week the Guardian reported on the sentencing of a British student to 32 months of imprisonment after he was found guilty of throwing an empty fire extinguisher during a protest […]
(This is a guest post from Peter Lancz, son and agent of the late Paul Lancz, renowned artist, activist and one of the thousands of Jews saved from war-torn Budapest by Swedish […]
There are days when even a card-carrying optimist like myself can only despair of the absolute insanity which sometimes manages to pervade the world’s view of Israel. This is one of them. […]
Famous human rights activist, Board member of the Muslim Canadian Congress and International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) Representative Raheel Raza confronts Tariq Ramadan and the Pakistani Ambassador representing the Organization of […]
This is cross-posted at FresnoZionism I and others have often written that many ‘critics’ of Israel who purport to be concerned with issues of human rights, fairness, racism and so on actually […]
In tomorrow’s JC, the Guardian says “We reject completely the charge of antisemitism”. Calling Israel “racist” is antisemitic. Here is “Ilan” (Pappé?) doing precisely that on CIF a few hours ago. The […]
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