A betrayal of this man's name
Melanie Phillips.
4:41pm 
Breaking the Silence is an Israeli NGO which makes often totally specious accusations of atrocities against Israeli soldiers. It demonises Israel for daring to defend its citizens against murderous attack, presenting such military defence as offences against ‘human rights’. It is thus itself an accessory to the potential denial of the human rights of Israelis to live free from attack. Yet Breaking the Silence is one of the three nominees short-listed for this year’s Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament's human rights award named after the great Soviet dissident and the winner of which will be named tomorrow.
As the Wall Street Journal rightly says, Andrei Sakharov must be spinning in his grave:
...The problem is not so much the organization’s work, which makes sweeping accusations against Israeli soldiers. The real insult is that an award meant to honor those
Tuesday, 19th October 2010
The silencing of Professor Alderman
11:54am
The 2010 Belfast Festival, held under the auspices of Queen’s University Belfast, convened a panel discussion last night on the topic ‘Conflict in the Middle East’. Last September, the Festival’s director, Graeme Farrow, invited Professor Geoffrey Alderman, a British Jewish commentator and defender of Israel, to take part in this panel, an invitation he accepted. To Alderman’s astonishment, last Friday afternoon he received an email from Farrow informing him that ‘a mistake’ had been made in inviting him, and that although he could join the audience the event was to go ahead without his panel participation.
The other members of this panel were Professors Avi Shlaim of St Anthony’s College, Oxford and Beverley Milton Edwards, of Queens University, Belfast. Shlaim, an Israeli by birth who hasn’t lived in Israel for years, has made a career out of demonising Israel. Milton...
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