Interview with Rabbi Arik Asherman, director of the RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Allan: Tell me a little about yourself. Asherman: Sure, my name is Rabbi Arik Asherman. I'm the executive director of Rabbi's for Human Rights. I also, on a part time basis am the Rabbi for...

Journalist Pressured not to Report Jewish Dimension of Balkan War

Budapest, Hungary - I'm a journalist and a Jew, but it was only recently that I became a Jewish journalist. Not by choice, mind you. It was thrust upon me. And larded with Jewish guilt,...

Palestinian Reflections on the Kosovo Crisis

As a Palestinian who was born a quarter of a century after and spared the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 that galvanized Palestine and sent most of our Palestinian people then fleeing to nearby later-hostile...

Official Fatah Website: Clinton Letter Not Balfour Declaration – 181 & 194 Basis

The following editoral from the official Fatah website www.fateh.org/e_editor/99/300499.htm has several important statements: 1. The Clinton letter is not a 'Balfour Declaration'. 2. Rather than 242 and 338, the PLO will base future demands on 181...

Letter to the World from a reporter in Jerusalem, June 1967

The Westinghouse Radio correspondent in Israel in 1967 - the first foreign correspondent to report Israel's capture of the Temple Mount during the 1967 war, when he was stationed on the roof of the...

The Revival of UN Resolution #181

Resolution 181's Revival In the May 9, 1999, edition of Al-Ayyam, Journalist Tawfiq Abu Bakr reported on the Palestinian Central Council meetings that discussed Palestinian measures on May 4th 1999: "Minister Nabil Sha'ath said... that...

Shimon Peres: Overthrow Saddam. Mideast’s Villain: It’s Not Islam; It’s Saddam

President Clinton deserves every praise for "Desert Fox." Yet it, too, did not resolve the Iraqi dilemma: Iraq is still controlled by a pathological despot who initiated bloody battles with his neighbors (Iran in...

From Bastion of Balance to Defamation of Israel

As a matter of policy, ADL's office in Jerusalem had always fought to cope with any media coverage of Israel that would reflect any hint of either anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism. The ADL office in Israel...

Al-Ahram Weekly: 1st-7th April, 1999

Corruption Cover-Up in UNWRA? by Zeina Khodr Heading: "An UNWRA report proves that some officials have been mishandling funds. But, as Zeina Khdor reports from Beirut, Palestinian officials are worried that delays in tackling the scandal could...

Recorded Interview with Jeff Halper, Head of the Israel Committee for House Demolitions (ICHD)

Media analyst Allan Polak conducts recorded interview with Jeff Halper on March 24, 1999. (Halper, an anthropologist, is the head of the ISRAEL COMMITTEE FOR HOUSE DEMOLITIONS and a candidate to be the new...