A few days after the 9/11 attacks, a friend of mine in London sat across from me at a dinner table. Sipping a bewitchingly good Chateauneuf du Pape, she volunteered the information that when she saw the twin towers burned to a shell, her first impulse was to rush to the Israeli Embassy and demonstrate. “Why?” I asked her, genuinely bemused. “To tell them that THEY are responsible for what’s happened,” she replied.
Michael Ignatieff, leader of Canada’s Liberal Party and the author of several books on international politics and human rights (including the highly recommended Virtual War), has written an op-ed for the National Post slamming Israel Apartheid Week.
Continue reading ‘Michael Ignatieff: Israel Apartheid Week is Demonization’
This article by Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi appears in the Open Forum section of the San Francisco Chronicle.
For those who haven’t heard, the first week in March has been designated as Israel Apartheid Week by activists who are either ill intentioned or misinformed. On American campuses, organizing committees are planning happenings to once again castigate Israel as the lone responsible party for all that maligns the Middle East.
Continue reading ‘Israel Apartheid Week: Hypocrisy and Betrayal’
In recent weeks, the courageous Nicholas Kristof, accompanied by George Clooney, has been revisiting the hell on earth that has enveloped Darfur and eastern Chad. In one of his searing columns, he wrote about a 27 year-old woman named Suad Ahmed.
Just a note to signal a further small development in the case of the AMIA massacre, a bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires which cost 85 people their lives on July 18, 1994.
Continue reading ‘More Assets Freezes for AMIA Case Fugitive’
Here’s a letter in the Irish Independent signed by six US labor leaders - including Jack Ahern, President of the AFL-CIO in New York - challenging the campaign by some in the Irish labor movement to boycott Israel.
Continue reading ‘American Labor Leaders Take Stand Against Boycott’
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This is a guest post by Point of No Return.
The Daily Telegraph, Britain’s centre-right mass-circulation newspaper, today carries a review of Rachel Shabi’s new book - unpromisingly titled ‘Israel’s humiliating discrimination against Arab Jews’ - about the discrimination faced in Israel by Jews from Arab countries, Not the Enemy.
Having made no effort to rein in those of its own supporters who fomented recent antisemitic episodes in Argentina, the government decided to win some cheap brownie points for itself by expelling the Holocaust denier Lefebvrist bishop Richard Williamson from the country.
Karl Pfeifer draws my attention to this statement demanding the removal of Hamas from the EU terrorism list. Among those appending their signatures are New Left dinosaur Tariq Ali, King of the Not-In-My-Name Jews Ronnie Kasrils and uncomplicated antisemites like Greta Duisenberg, James Petras and Gilad Atzmon.
Viva, comrades, viva! I do hope none you forgot to send comradely greetings to Robert Mugabe on the occasion of his 85th birthday.
The Economist is always a useful journal to visit if you need a reminder that the Middle East is much more than just the Israel-Palestinian conflict. “As Shia clerics weighed in with calls for an end to what they called systematic persecution, Sunni extremists accused the rafida, an abusive term for Shias, meaning rejectionists, of acting as a fifth column for Iran. ‘Today they besiege the religious police,’ howled one website commentator. ‘Tomorrow they will encircle the Eastern Province along with the Shias of Bahrain and with Iranian backing.’”
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