Pro-Israel hawks clash over history of "Independence Day"
26 April 2012
Email exchange shows that two of Israel’s most ardent supporters in Brussels disagreed this week over whether Palestine was a British colony.
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Michigan professor named in "Nazi" ad hits at New York Times for "aiding and abetting environment of fear"
26 April 2012
Earlier this week, The New York Times published an ad accusing a number of named US college professors of inciting the murder of Jewish children because they’ve supported the boycott of Israel. One of those named shared this response.
New York Times ad accuses BDS movement, college professors of inciting murder of Jewish children
24 April 2012
In a sign of growing desperation among anti-Palestinian groups, a full-page New York Times ad published today likens the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement to the Holocaust.
NGO Monitor uses fake Martin Luther King Jr. quote in latest "anti-Semite" smear
15 March 2012
Extreme anti-Palestinian group NGO Monitor is disrespecting the late US Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. and perpetrating a fraud by disseminating a fake quote in an attempt to smear people as anti-Semites.
Revealed: Israel hires lobby firm to win Euro-MPs' backing for trade deal
14 March 2012
Kreab Gavin Anderson tasked with convincing MEPs to approve accord on increasing Israel’s exports.
Apartheid conference goes ahead in Paris despite university ban
28 February 2012
The University of Paris 8 is traditionally one of the more left-wing third-level institutions in France. Alas, its current president Pascal Binczak is seeking to negate this legacy.
Zionist group fails to disrupt Ilan Pappe's tour at California state universities
18 February 2012
The California State University (CSU) system has sent a letter to a Zionist group rejecting their claim that Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and a frequent contributor to The Electronic Intifada, should not receive CSU sponsorship during his upcoming campus tour.
Paris university pulls plug on "Israeli apartheid" talk
17 February 2012
CRIF, the leading Israel lobby group in France, is once again seeking to deny the right to free speech.
Presbyterian church body hits back hard at JCPA's "anti-Semitism" smear over support for Palestinian rights
8 February 2012
The Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has hit back strongly at a smear campaign from a major pro-Israel group aimed at portraying it as “anti-Semitic.” In responding to allegations from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), IPMN stated:
BDS is Nazism and Omar Barghouti is Hitler says UPenn professor in shocking smear
1 February 2012
In the latest shot against the upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference at the University of Pennsylvania next weekend, the movement is being openly compared to Nazism.