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Muslim, Zionist and Proud

May 3rd, 2012

Op-ed: His father praised Hitler, but Kasim Hafeez writes about love for Israel, Jewish people Kasim Hafeez, Ynetnews.com, 25/4/2012 I am a Zionist, a proud Muslim Zionist, and I love Israel, but this was not always the case. In fact, for many years I was quite the extreme opposite. I experienced the high levels of [...]

Apartheid? Think Again

April 8th, 2012

Op-ed: Why is Israel considered racist for seeking to protect itself against hostile, murderous Arabs? Dan Calic, YnetNews, 4/3/2012 The term “apartheid state,” as applied to Israel, gained traction largely as a result of former US President Jimmy Carter’s 2006 book “Israel: Peace Not Apartheid.” The term “apartheid” refers to the conditions that formerly existed in [...]

Israeli Attorney Addresses Palestinian Rights Abuses

March 25th, 2012

by Tzippe Barrow, CBN News, 3/27/2011 JERUSALEM, Israel — Israeli attorney Calev Myers hand delivered a report to the European Parliament in Brussels Thursday detailing the human rights record of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas governments. The 35-page report provides meticulously researched documentation of human rights abuses in Palestinian-controlled areas in Judea and Samaria (the [...]

JIJ’s Report on the Status of Human Rights in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

March 22nd, 2012

The Jerusalem Institute of Justice presented the following briefing before the European Parliament in Brussels on March 22, 2012: Status of Human Rights in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

UN takes Aim at Israel over Palestinian Women’s Rights

March 15th, 2012

Israeli Government Must Restore Dignity to Women

February 17th, 2012

Calev Myers, Haaretz, 17.2.12 No society that I am aware of has succeeded in completely eradicating prostitution, but that should not deter us in our efforts to diminish it in Israel. Trafficking in human beings has been a crime in Israel for several decades, but while empirical data suggests that nearly all people (and they [...]

Stopping Prostitution

February 17th, 2012

JPOST Editorial, 12.2.12 Logic dictates that if demand for prostitution can expand, it can also contract.     Prostitution is violence against women. Everything should be done to diminish, if not completely eradicate, this horrible phenomenon, dubbed inappropriately “the world’s oldest profession,” as if its long history somehow gives it respectability. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation took [...]

Plain and Simple: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism

January 8th, 2012

Posted By David Solway on January 6, 2012 in Homeland Security,Israel,Legal,Middle East,Religion,US News It is easy to see that many critics of Israel are unquestionably anti-Semitic in outlook and feeling and are merely using a political argument to camouflage a religious, racist, or ethnophobic sentiment.Under cover of “legitimate criticism of Israel” and the condemnation of [...]

Knesset Caucus Formed to Combat anti-Semitism

December 1st, 2011

LAHAV HARKOV, 30/11/2011 Christian Zionist leaders attend opening ceremony of new group in Jerusalem  MK Danny Danon (Likud) and activist Calev Myers founded a caucus in the Knesset to battle international anti-Semitism this week. “Today, anti-Semitism disguises itself as anti-Israel and denying Zionism, and we must put an end to it,” Myers, founder of the [...]

Abbas Glorifies Terrorist Prisoners

November 2nd, 2011

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, 1/11/11 Since the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly honored and glorified the released prisoners. On the day of their release, Abbas greeted each one at a general ceremony in Ramallah and has since then publicly [...]