Sharansky Quits Israel's Cabinet
Steven Erlanger (New York Times) - Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky resigned on Monday because he opposes Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, he said in an interview.

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Chelsea soccer coach as unofficial peace envoy
This week the Peres Centre for Peace saw Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho and Brazilian football star Ronaldo work for the Soccer Schools project to bring Israeli and Palestinian children from poor backgrounds to play football together

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Video
Tikun Olam
Israel caring and sharing

 

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The New anti-Semitism

"The second great mutation of anti Semitism in modern times"

“What we are witnessing today is the second great mutation of anti Semitism in modern times, from racial anti Semitism to religious anti-Zionism with the added premise that all Jews are Zionists. It uses all the medieval myths… The mutation is this; that the worst crimes of anti-Semites in the past-racism, ethnic cleansing, attempted genocide, crimes against humanity-are now attributed to the Jews and the state of Israel”
- The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks

The perpetrators of this “ new “ anti-Semitism
“The perpetrators of this “ new “ anti-Semitism are the Palestinian and Arab political leadership, Islamic fundamentalists, political opportunists,
neo –Nazis, extreme fascists, parts of the media, Arab influenced international institutions and self hating Jews.” - Manfred Gerstenfeld

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The moral high ground or just plain racism, anti-Semitism and self-hating Jews against Israel?

The AUT academic Boycott of Israel

On Friday 23rd April 2005, the eve of the Jewish Passover, Delegates of the 40,000-member United Kingdom Association of University Teachers, meeting in Eastbourne England, voted Friday to boycott Haifa University and Bar Ilan University. The moral high ground or just plain racism and self-hating Jews? cont'd...

Academic boycott may be annulled before it takes effect
By Tamara Traubman, Haaretz Correspondent
The controversial decision by Britain's Association of University Teachers (AUT), to boycott Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities, may be annulled before it actually takes effect. Members of the association who oppose the boycott are attempting to collect 25 signatures of AUT's council to force a special meeting that will overturn the decision.

British lecturers to reopen debate on Israeli boycott
by Tamara Traubman, Haaretz
Some 10 days after Britain's Association of University Teachers (AUT) decided to impose an academic boycott on Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities, lecturers in Britain who are opposed to the move have man-aged to collect the required number of signatures for reopening the decision to a debate.

An academic boycott of Israel would lead to lives being lost:
Baroness Greenfield, "Israeli scientific achievements are absolutely mindboggling,"... if efforts underway in some British academic circles to boycott Israeli scientists succeed, ultimately lives will be lost, she explained.

Israeli doctors have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.

 

Vanunu A traitor to his country, his people and and a harbinger of death to his co-workers...The details he chose to reveal had the effect of setting up the reactor and its workers for military
or terrorist attack. A stain on the reputation of the University of Glasgow

Christian Aid's recent campaigns and attacks on Israel are further evidence that the goals of its leadership are primarily political, and not charitable. The barrage of reports, campaigns, press releases and expensive advertisements all presenting strong pro-Palestinian positions, and minimizing terror and corruption, are clear evidence of this obsession.

The STUC Annual Conference,
APR 18 – 20, 2005, ... the Glasgow Trades Union Council has in a cringing motion No 104 again proposed the suggestion that any future Palestinian state should have Jerusalem (note; not just East Jerusalem) as its capital. If carried, this would become STUC policy. cont'd...

The moral high ground or just plain racism, anti-Semitism and self-hating Jews?

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Church Plans Divestment Vote Over Israel Issues
The 1.4-million-member United Church of Christ will vote this summer on whether to divest from certain U.S. firms doing business with Israel, a protest against the Jewish state's occupation of Palestinian territories, church officials said.

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The Political Intifada. Afif Safieh, Palestinian delegate to the United Kingdom.

- EU economic boycotts probably won't work but keep the pressure on.

- Portray the Palestinians as wanting peace, the Israelis as dissident.

- NGO's coordinate activities.

 

Arab/Palestinian Press

Palestine News Agency (PLO)

RAMALLAH, May 2, 2005 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas met in Ramallah on Sunday with the former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who has been appointed the Quartet's coordinator to support the Palestinian economy after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Abbas Meets Turkish Premiere in Ramallah RAMALLAH, May 2, 2005 (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas urged Turkey on Monday to play a more important role in the Middle East peace process.... more......

Dar Al-Hayat [Saudi Arabia]
Israel Jailed a Soldier for Urging Comrades not to Remove a Settler Outpost
Reuters 2005/01/5 - Israel jailed a soldier for 28 days on Wednesday for urging comrades to refuse orders to remove a Jewish settler outpost, which raised fears of revolt in the ranks over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan.

 

Mitchell G. Bard author Myths and Facts
Israel and the Diaspora: a Humpty-Dumpty relationship.
Does the Media's anti-Israel bias matter? ...while the media may play a role in shaping the views of future decision makers, a more neglected influence is the academy. For at least two decades the Arabs have funded anti-Israel chairs and Middle East centers that have created a hostile campus environment and distorted teaching about Israel.

Melanie Phillips
The lethal pathology of the Jews I took part in an Intelligence Squared debate on Zionism. This was a more than usually disturbing experience. It wasn’t just that the motion, ‘Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews’, blamed Jewish self-determination for the current threat to Jewish existence. cont'd...

Have You Heard...

SCOTTISH TRADES UNION ANNUAL CONGRESS 2005
Palestine

“That this Congress records its respect to Yasser Arafat..."