French museums deny tour by Israeli art students
From Liberation:[In May,] Professor Sefy Hendler, a specialist in Italian Renaissance, was preparing a trip to Paris for late June with a group of twelve students of art history at the University of...
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Israel hosted 14,000 tourists from Arab countries so far this year
Palestine Press Agency reports that Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has released figures on tourism for the first five months of the year.While tourism altogether has declined from last year, the...
View Article06/15 Links Pt1: Ten Ways Israel Is Treated Differently; Report Reveals Hamas...
From Ian:Ten Ways Israel Is Treated DifferentlyIt’s appalling to see how Israel is treated by a totally different standard than other countries in the international system. Of course, Israel deserves...
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"My Jew-hatred is copyrighted!"
“Jews actually intend to conquer the world...by palmediawatchFrom Palestinian Media Watch:A Palestinian teacher from the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is situated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, taught in...
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Palestinians see a conspiracy behind UNRWA budget woes
UNRWA has frozen and cut back some of its programs because Arab countries have not paid their pledges - but some Palestinians see a much more nefarious reason.Political economic expert Dr. Adel Samara...
View Article06/15 Links Pt2: You can’t win a PR war, fighting on the enemy’s side; 24...
From Ian:You can’t win a PR war by fighting on the enemy’s sideI can’t think of another conflict in history where one side devoted so much time and energy to selling the world the other side’s...
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A Hamas truce with Israel? Fatah doesn't seem too happy at the idea
Times of Israel reports:Leading members of Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas convened in Qatar over the past several days to discuss a proposal for a long-term ceasefire with Israel, the Palestinian...
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CNN bias, definitively explained
Last month, CNN - under the headline "Israeli settlers reportedly chop down 800 Palestinian olive trees" - parroted absurd Palestinian allegations without bothering to do a modicum of fact checking....
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Sarkozy: "There are schools in France where you cannot teach the Holocaust"
Arab media over the past day have reported a bizarre story claiming that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking in Israel, said that the Jewish state should be exclusively for Jews and the...
View Article06/16 Links Pt1: Instead of investigating IDF, UN should probe itself; UNRWA...
From Ian:UN-believable:Israeli Organizations Working Against Israel at the UNIm Tirtzu’s latest report reveals how three Israeli organizations, which have consultant status at the Economic-Social...
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Setting the Left Right regarding BDS (Daphne Anson)
"When you educate people to boycott only Israel, when you tell them that all Israelis are responsible for human-rights abuses, when you mobilise a global campaign to say that Israel is uniquely racist,...
View ArticleRockets being shot from/to civilian areas in Ukraine doesn't seem to bother...
Hmmm....Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Several hundred Ukrainians in the country's war-torn east demanded Monday that pro-Russian insurgents remove scores of rocket launchers from crowded city...
View Article06/16 Links Pt2: The Bigotry of Our Time; Kay Wilson's revenge
From Ian:Douglas Murray: The Bigotry of Our TimeThe letters page of The Guardian in the UK is regularly filled with letters, jointly signed by "correct-thinking" people who hope that in so doing, they...
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Peter Beinart says BDSers hear "the voice of Sinai"
Assuming that this Mondoweiss account of a program at the 92nd St Y is accurate:At the end of the discussion, [Peter] Beinart challenged the hall filled with 500 mostly older folks (and surely almost...
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Muslims claim Mount of Olives is ancient Islamic cemetery "loaned" to Jews
JPost reports:The police must increase its presence around the the Mount of Olives Cemetery in east Jerusalem, where Jewish visitors are often attacked, MKs and activists said at a Knesset Interior...
View ArticleHamas whines over its impotence in the "unity government"
Maan reports:An attendee of the 15th Fatah Revolutionary Council conference led by President Mahmoud Abbas told Ma'an Tuesday that the council will form an entirely new unity cabinet rather than...
View Article06/17 Links Pt1: UNRWA Chief: Hamas Hid Weapons in Facilities; Oren:...
From Ian:UNRWA Chief Admits Hamas Hid Weapons in FacilitiesPierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the UN body tasked with aiding "Palestinian refugees," admitted on Wednesday that Hamas...
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Local BDS Group Votes To Boycott Israeli BDS Supporters (PreOccupied Territoory)
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page.Aberdeen, Ireland, June 17 - Students at the University of Aberdeen who seek to isolate Israel voted this...
View ArticleAbbas reportedly bans PalArabs from traveling to Israel for Ramadan
Times of Israel reports:For the first time in at least a decade, the IDF will let Palestinian buses bring West Bank worshipers into Israel during the month of Ramadan, which begins Wednesday, a senior...
View Article06/17 Links Pt2: Pierre Rehov - Beyond Deception Strategy; Evil spirit of BDS...
From Ian:Pierre Rehov - Beyond Deception StrategyBeyond its deception strategy, BDS has one goal : the destruction of Israel and, on the long run, the extermination of Jews. Among BDS supporters,...
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