Archive for the ‘Israel Advocacy’ Category
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The video below, produced by young Canadian advocates for Israel, has been making the viral rounds. Some find it too sexy - what do you think?
Posted in Israel Advocacy | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
An Unholy Alliance With the Chávez Regime? by Sara Saber-FreedmanExecutive Vice President, CIC Even those who are critical of Israeli policies may find it hard to understand why any organization with the word “Jewish” in its name would be encouraging its members to participate in a rally supporting the Chavez ...
Posted in Israel Advocacy | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 14th, 2009
This excellent blog post from the Jewcy website takes on the Zionists-as-colonialists mythology:
The Myth of Jewish Colonialism
by Bataween, December 14, 2009
In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to ‘colonise' and 'steal ...
Posted in Israel Advocacy, Israeli History and Archaeology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
The Nov. 29 BUYcott Israel Action in support of Mountain Equipment Co-op's Ethical Sourcing Policy was an outstanding success right across Canada. Every city reported that many friends of Israel visited their local MEC outlets to enthusiastically purchase memberships in the co-op and Israeli produced goods.
Our team in Vancouver partnered ...
Posted in Israel Advocacy | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
In a piece for Hudson New York (affiliated with the Hudson Institute think tank), Jerusalem Post writer (and Israeli-Arab) Khaled Abu Toameh looks at how many "pro-Palestinian" activists do nothing to actually help their cause:
In recent years there has been a significant rise in the number of non-Palestinians who describe ...
Posted in Israel Advocacy, Middle East, Palestinian affairs | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Français
MYTH:
"Amnesty's water report fairly portrays Israel.
FACT:
Amnesty International released a report in October 2009 condemning Israel's water-usage policy in the West Bank. Before the report's release, the Israeli Water Authority offered to issue a report or presentation to Amnesty, but was refused. 334 Given the unwillingness to hear Israel's side, as ...
Posted in Israel Advocacy, Israel science & technology, Israeli Foreign Affairs | No Comments »
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Purchase an MEC Membership Today!
Already a member? Give a Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) Membership as a Chanukah or Christmas gift.
Let the MEC Board know that you support their ethical sourcing policy. Defeat efforts by anti-Israel groups to impose their views on the purchasing practices of MEC.
Background
Anti-Israel activists tabled a ...
Posted in Israel Advocacy | No Comments »
Friday, October 16th, 2009
We want to advise all of our CIC Scene readers that Independent Jewish Voices is announcing the cancellation of an SPHR (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights) fundraiser for Gaza that was scheduled for this evening in Toronto. While they cite “unforeseen circumstances”, we suspect that the level of interest in ...
Posted in Community, Israel Advocacy, Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Michael Elterman, chair of the Canada-Israel Committee Pacific Region, wrote this commentary for the Georgia Straight in response to ‘Gaza shocks Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire’, published in the Straight Sept. 24.
Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire's good intentions promote anti-Semitism
by Michael Elterman
Georgia Straight, Oct. 6, 2009
There are people with good intentions who ...
Posted in Gaza conflict, Hamas, Israel Advocacy | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Here's a press release from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
15 September 2009
The Operation against Hamas in Gaza: The Israeli Perspective
On December 27, 2008, after enduring an 8-year-long barrage of 12,000 rockets and having exhausted all other options, Israel launched a military operation against Hamas in Gaza.
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
Posted in Hamas, Israel Advocacy, Israeli Foreign Affairs | No Comments »