January 27, 2014 16:54 by Alex Margolin Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky says the BDS campaign against SodaStream shows that the movement is less concerned with the Palestinians and more concerned with harming Israel. “BDS claims it wants only what is good for Palestinians, no matter how many of […]
The White House’s recent policies against Israel do not reflect the will of the American people, according to a recent poll. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) released the results of a nationwide survey this month revealing that the vast majority of Americans support Israel on nearly every major issue addressed in peace talks between […]
A top European Union official warned on Wednesday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have a “price to pay” if US-led peace talks collapse, according to AFP. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, the EU’s ambassador to Israel, also rebuffed the evidence noted by both Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Europe was […]
Member of Knesset Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) had a narrow escape this week when terrorists threw a large concrete block at his car. The attackers struck late on Sunday night, as Kalfa was making his way from Jerusalem to the pre-military academy in Yatir, in the Hevron region. The attack took place near El Aroub […]
Terrorist attacks nearly doubled in frequency in 2013, according to new data released by the IDF. There were 62 terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) in 2013, compared to 35 the year before. The IDF website quoted senior sources as saying that the violence is still nowhere near “Intifada” levels. “There is a significant […]
January 16, 2014 15:17 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop comes out hard against the BDS Movement, calling it anti-Semitic and hypocritical in an exclusive interview with The Times of Israel. She strongly condemned […]
January 15, 2014 16:23 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Rock legend Neil Young and hitmaker Justin Timberlake announced plans to perform in Israel in setbacks for the BDS movement. At the same time, a petition to boycott the […]
Documented evidence doesn’t stand in the way of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s claims regarding the attempted lynching of 25 Jewish residents of Samaria by an Arab mob from Kusra last Tuesday. In talks with Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem on Saturday, Abbas declared “the residents (of Kusra) caught settlers and besieged them, and they […]
January 13, 2014 15:30 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. BDS Stories: 1. Modern Language Association (MLA) proposes an anti-Israel resolution but stops short of calling academic boycott. The proposed resolution, reached after hours of raucous debate, calls on the US State Department to […]
Governmental sources report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is behind the European boycott threats on Israeli products and companies operating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The EU published its guidelines last July, boycotting Israeli companies operating over the 1949 Armistice lines. John Kerry Flash 90 At the moment, Kerry […]
