H/T Elder of Ziyon This story is infuriating. According to The JC: The UK branch of Israeli cosmetics store, Ahava, is moving from its central London shop after years of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. […]
Facebook and the “Third Intifada”: The Aftermath
This is cross posted by Dr. Andre Oboler, who is the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Community Internet Engagement Director on technology, digital diplomacy and anti-Semitism 2.0. This essay originally appeared in the Jerusalem […]
“Orwellian” list of journalists nominated for 2011 Orwell Prize includes Guardian’s Rachel Shabi
H/T Judy “From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE […]
British, Muslim, and pro-Israel!
H/T Melanie Phillips We recently posted on the creation of an important new organization in the UK, British Muslims for Israel (BMI) – a project of Institute for Middle Eastern Democracy- and its […]
Guardian Readers’ IOCD (Israel Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) in One Image
The essay by Daniel Machover, chair of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, titled “Arrest warrant plans make a mockery of universal jurisdiction” March 30, about changes to the UK’s laws regarding the issuing […]
A case study in anti-Semitism within British academia
Here at CiF Watch we, like many others, have for some time been following the very worrying events taking place with alarming regularity in too many British universities. From the cancellation of […]
Israeli Druze Diarist
The Druze religion is a monotheistic faith which emerged during the 11th century from Islam and incorporated several elements of Gnosticism, Greek Philosophies and other ideologies present in that era. Worldwide there are […]
A Rare Glimpse of Reality in the Guardian
An obituary about a gentleman named John Watson –written by one of his former commanders and appearing in the Guardian on March 29th – contains an interesting paragraph. “His battalion was posted […]
What the Guardian’s Michael Tomasky won’t report: New study debunks myth of American Islamophobia
H/T Elder of Ziyon Of course, those who believe, with an almost religious intensity, that the United States is a hotbed of anti-Muslim bigotry won’t be moved by this study. However, anyone […]
Facebook shuts down “Third Intifada” page
This is cross posted from Backspin, the blog of Honest Reporting (See original CiF Watch post on the issue, here.) Despite previous statements saying they would monitor but not remove the controversial […]
Hamas’s Karma
Karma Nabulsi has a lively imagination. While this imagination is most haunted by a crude, ugly caricature of Israelis – who she has literally accused (in a CiF entry from 2006) of blowing […]
Norway Socialist Left’s moral tradeoff for bombing Libya: Use armed force against Israel
This is cross posted by Prof. M. McGonagall at the blog: Norway, Israel, and the Jews The SV [Norway Socialist Left Party] annual convention goes to vote. The deranged junior partner in the […]
Reductio ad Jew: CiF contributor engages in thinly veiled anti-Semitic attack
Cengiz Çandar’s defense of Turkey’s increasingly illiberal prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (CiF, March 28), included – for anyone possessing even a modicum of understanding regarding the popular tropes and lexicon employed by […]
What the Guardian won’t report: Palestinian PM Honors terrorist bombers, then condemns terror bombing
This report, by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik at Palestinian Media Watch, about a Palestinian leadership which often condemns attacks on Israelis while speaking in English to the Western media, but routinely glorifies […]
UN Human Rights Council Invents Some Human Rights Abuses, Ignores Real Ones
This essay was written by Hadar Sela, and published at The Propagandist The United Nations Human Rights Council addressed the subject of the dire state of the human rights of Syrian citizens […]
The moral strength of Haim Fogel
There was a story in the Jerusalem Post recently about Israeli President Shimon Peres’s visit with the parents of Ehud and Ruth Fogel – the couple who, together with three of their […]
2008 or 2011? Video of IDF Spokesman, during Cast Lead, lecturing Al-Jazeera broadcaster on simple lessons they clearly still haven’t learned
Here is a newly translated interview with Capt Avichay Adraee on Al-Jazeera which took place during or right before Cast Lead. Unfortunately given the current situation, practically all of his points are […]
Post Script to ‘Palestine Papers’: Guardian grossly misrepresented so-called Palestinian “concessions”
The renowned Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini of Ma’ariv has an interesting post on his blog which can be filed under the category ‘post script to the ‘Palestine Papers’. It speaks for itself, […]
Melanie Phillips on Israeli TV: On Itamar, and UK media’s role in legitimizing terror & anti-Semitic incitement
Here’s Melanie Phillips‘ interview yesterday on Israeli television, where you’ll see her doing what she does best: Speaking truthfully, fearlessly and delegitimizing the delegitimizers.
Israel’s critical security needs for a real and sustainable peace
One of Israel’s diplomatic challenges in arguing their position vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is that it is difficult to explain their requirements in a pithy sound bite. While Palestinians can simply say […]
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