Tag Archives: UN

Good News Friday

Posted on 10 May 2013 by

Once again, despite the amount of bad news in the media, there is always a spot of good news to be found if one only looks hard enough. (And believe me, I looked very hard this week!). So here is … Continue reading →

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Richard Falk and John Kerry’s wrongful statements about Israel

Posted on 24 April 2013 by

The terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon last week and the attempted thawing of relations between Israel and Turkey were exacerbated by outrageous and idiotic statements by diplomats and politicians, people who really ought to know better but it seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Antisemitism, International relations, Terrorism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

The twisted logic of Anti-semites

Posted on 15 March 2013 by

Two incidents in recent days, one minor and one making rather a louder splash, highlight the twisted logic that anti-Semites have to use in order to make any sense of their anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. The first incident, (via Mum) which … Continue reading →

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IDF boosts forces on the Golan after UN kidnapping, threats from Syrian rebels

Posted on 10 March 2013 by

As I’ve written previously here, the civil war in Syria is approaching perilously close to Israel’s border and sometimes even spilling over into Israel with stray tank shells and mortars.  This danger was just ratcheted up a notch over recent … Continue reading →

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More Israel bashing from the usual suspects

Posted on 1 March 2013 by

Remember Turkey? The country to whom everybody is urging Israel to apologize for defending itself against their terrorists who sent a flotilla to break Israel’s legal blockade against Hamas? Well, their outspoken Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan just went and … Continue reading →

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The Legal Case for Israel

Posted on 13 February 2013 by

Further to my earlier post about the use of human rights in lawfare against Israel, Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has brought us a brilliant video by Professor Eugene Kontorovich, an international law expert, who explains the legal case … Continue reading →

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