Monthly Archives: March 2016

Insights into Advocacy for Israel – in Ottawa and in Washington D.C.

Insights into Advocacy for Israel - in Ottawa and in Washington D.C. with David Bedein, Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research and The Israel Resource News Agency. David Bedein will present a...

To Dr. Cary Nelson, who chaired the anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem on Monday

Attn: Dr. Cary Nelson Author, The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel Dear Cary, Good to meet you and good to see you at the conference. This is how you were quoted by journalist Judy Maltz HAARETZ “Nelson,...

Why We Do What We Do

​I  got on the Jersualem Light Rail today.​​ It was there that I saw Dana Weissman, a young man whom I knew when I was a community social worker in Tzfat more than 30 years...

The social networks as a source of inspiration and imitation for terrorists: The case...

1. On February 18, 2016, Two Palestinian adolescents went to a supermarket in the Sha'ar Benyamin commercial area, north of Jerusalem, and stabbed two Israeli customers. An armed civilian shot them. One of the...

Encouragement for the Palestinian Terrorist Campaign through Financial Support

Iranian Financial Aid: Objectives and Significance 1.   On February 24, 2016, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon held a press conference in the Iranian embassy where he announced Iran's intention to give financial support to the...
Assyrian Christians (background), who fled advancing Islamic State group jihadists in the Syrian province of Hasakeh, wait to receive humanitarian aid supplies. (Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

This Easter, Stop the Crucifixion of Assyrian Christians

During the holiday of Easter, Christians throughout the world commemorate the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yet for one group of Christians in Iraq and Syria, this Easter will not be celebrated with chocolate...

REPORT FROM JORDAN: MY CONVERSATION WITH HAMMAD IS THE SEA OF GALILEE IN ISRAEL...

In Um Qais, a remote rather obscure Northern town of Jordan, made up of approximately 5000 Moslems, I met a Jordanian man named Hammad (not his real name) who, like everyone else in the town...

US gov’t fabrication​: ​that PA/UNRWA school books meet standards of peace education

1. Last July, our agency met with U.S. State Dept officials who supervise school books for the PA and UNRWA, who assured us that new PA/UNRWA school books will now reflect principles of peace,...

Purim shpiel…writes Michael Kuttner

At this time of the year as Jews worldwide celebrate the deliverance of the ancient Persian Jewish Community from the threat of genocide, one of the customs is to stage a “shpiel” which translated...

Biden vs Bedein on the subject of PA/UNRWA education

סגן נשיא ארה"ב ג'ו ביידן טען לאחרונה כי הרשות הפלסטינית ערכה שינויים מרחיקי לכת בטקסטים הנלמדים בבתי הספר ברשות ומיתנה רבים מהם - זאת בתשובה לשאלה שהפנו אליו מספר סנאטורים בעקבות דו"ח שהוגש לפני...