New Advocacy Video: Size Doesn’t Matter
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The video below, produced by young Canadian advocates for Israel, has been making the viral rounds. Some find it too sexy - what do you think?
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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?
An Unholy Alliance With the Chávez Regime?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010An 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 ...
The Myth of Jewish Colonialism
Monday, December 14th, 2009This 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 ...
BUYcott Israel Update: Huge Success for MEC Initiative
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009The 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 ...
What Does “Pro-Palestinian” Really Mean? by Khaled Abu Toameh
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009In 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 ...
Myths and Facts: Amnesty International’s Water Report
Monday, November 9th, 2009Français 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 ...
BUYcott Israel Alert: Purchase an MEC Membership Today!
Friday, November 6th, 2009Purchase 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 ...
Independent Jewish Voices Cancels Palestinian Fundraiser
Friday, October 16th, 2009We 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 ...
CIC’s Michael Elterman: Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Good Intentions Promote Anti-Semitism
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Michael 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 ...
Gaza Facts Website Launched by Israel
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Here'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 ...
