Israel Apartheid Week: Women’s Safety Advisory
Posted by Bill Levinson
Please download, copy, and circulate the attached Women’s Safety Advisory for Israel Apartheid Week
ISRAEL APARTHEID WEEK
WOMEN’S SAFETY ADVISORY
To: All female students, faculty members, and guests of this university
Universities around the world are hosting Israel Apartheid Week, whose purpose is to condemn Israel as an apartheid state. Participants at this event may include students or visitors from other cultures that are unfamiliar with or do not share your culture’s attitudes toward women and the right of women to control their own bodies. Examples are as follows.
(1)Rape is the fault of women. Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali of Australia said, “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it—the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home,...
Obama and Jewish leadership
The “closed” meeting between President Barack Obama and 50 representatives of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations last week was hailed by the chairman Alan Solow and executive vice chairman Malcolm Hoenlein as an “extraordinary session,” providing “open lines of communication with President Obama and his administration” and an “opportunity to articulate the views of American Jews on issues that face the country.”
In a similar vein, the White House said the meeting reaffirmed “America’s unshakable support for Israel’s security, opposition to any effort to delegitimize or single it out for criticism, and a commitment to achieve a peace that will secure the future for Arabs and Israelis alike.”
In contrast to the 2009 meeting, J Street was not invited.
From all reports, Obama went out of his way to persuade participants that he was committed to Israel. More...
Women of the IDF
How Israel’s Peacemaking Endangers Itself and the Stability of the Region
By Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish
When Israeli leaders embarked on peace negotiations with the Islamic-Marxist terrorists who called themselves representatives of the “”Palestinian people”, they hoped to improve relations with the Muslim world. But not only did Israel not succeed in improving relations with the Muslim world, but its bid for peace has actually destroyed its old relationships which were built on a certain respect for Israel’s staying power.
The more Israel has traded land for peace, the more its staying power has diminished. There is no better place to see that shift than in Turkey, formerly Israel’s closest ally in the Muslim world. That relationship was built not on mutual friendship, but mutual respect.
Today Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu envisions a region in which Israel ceases to exist and is replaced by a Muslim-Jewish protectorate of Turkey. In 1986 that vision would have gotten him laughed off the podium when...
Rep King is right, the public wrong
Peter King vs. the American public
By Robert P Jones, WaPo
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will begin holding hearings Thursday on “the extent of the radicalization of American Muslims.” Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has characterized the hearings as “a witch hunt.” Are they?
King also has said he believes the “self-radicalization” of American Muslims represents “a very small minority” of the overall community. What are the potential consequences of singling out one religious group?
As the congressional hearings on the alleged radicalization of Islam approach, one key question is how Rep. Peter King’s justifications for holding the hearings stack up to what the American public thinks about Islam and the place of American Muslims in society. The recent PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey, to date the only barometer for public opinion on the...
Natalie Portman donates $50 million to Hadassah Hospital
Hadassah Hospital received a $50 million donation last week from a woman who was born there – famed actress Natalie Portman
Portman’s donation is earmarked for an improved and expanded emergency trauma center. The Hadassah Women’s Zionist movement is behind the project. The expansion will enable three times as many victims to be treated at once.
At a ceremony last week at the Jerusalem Theater, Dr. Kobi Assaf, Hadassah Hospital’s director of surgery and shock trauma, said the expansion of the trauma center will save many lives. “One of the most crucial things we can do for trauma patients is treat them quickly,” he said. “The new unit is arranged specifically to do that; everything we need to treat them is right here.”
The old center could handle 23,000 admissions a year, but demand has risen to 73,000 in recent years.
Natalie Portman, whose family name is Hershlag, was born in 1981 in Jerusalem, where her father worked as a...
Netanyahu invites National Union to join government
Netanyahu invites extreme right-wing politicians to join coalition
Effort met with surprise in light of Netanyahu’s intention to announce far-reaching diplomatic initiative in U.S., including transfer of West Bank territory to PA.
By Yossi Verter, HAARETZ
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to have some members of the right-wing National Union Party join his coalition and the cabinet.
The proposed move comes shortly before the prime minister is expected to deliver a major diplomatic policy speech in the United States in May or even earlier, either to a joint session of Congress or at the convention of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Netanyahu has been engaged in talks recently with National Union faction chief Yaakov Katz over the prospect of Katz joining the coalition along with party colleagues Uri Ariel and perhaps Aryeh Eldad.
The prime minister did not ask the National Union’s fourth MK, Michael Ben...
MK Danon to Netanyahu: Do Not Concede Land to Arabs
by Elad Benari and Hezki Ezra, INN
MK Danny Danon (Likud) has begun collecting signatures from heads of the local Likud branches for a letter in which he calls on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to announce any territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.
Danon’s initiative comes amid reports that Netanyahu is planning to make a new policy statement on PA demands.
“We all heard of the intention of the Prime Minister to deliver a speech in May in Washington in which he will declare the creation of a Palestinian state and will announce that he will give land in Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians,” Danon said on Wednesday. “This is unacceptable. This is not the Likud policy. We were not elected to implement the ideology of Ehud Barak and the Labor party. We have to be very clear and I have started, together with the heads of the Likud branches in Israel, to put pressure on the Prime Minister and to tell him that if he goes in the direction...
Jew-Hatred Week
By Howard Rotberg
My father, now 90 years old, living in a retirement home, is a survivor of Auschwitz, where his parents and then 8 year old sister were exterminated in the gas chambers.
Dad has told me of growing up in Lodz Poland, a textile city of some 600,000 population pre-War, of whom some 180,000 were Jewish, mostly working class. Most were rounded up into the notorious Lodz ghetto from which they were shipped, squeezed into cattle cars, to Auschwitz or other concentration/death camps.
The worst time of the year for Jews in Lodz was Easter week. The then anti-Semitic Roman Catholic priests would sermonize about the vile People who killed, even tortured, the Lord, Jesus Christ, their Saviour. That, on top of the long standing anti-Semitism of the Eastern European and Russian masses, resulted in increased anti-Semitic incidents, including violence, for the week around Easter. Allegations ranged from the Jews using the blood of Christian children to bake the ceremonial...
Israel wins int’l ice hockey tournament
By Viva Sarah Press, Israel 21C
An amazing achievement for the Israeli peewee hockey team of 10-13 year olds: they beat out 92 other teams to take gold at an international hockey meet in Quebec City. The fact that the Israeli youngsters play roller hockey most of the year and only rarely practice on real ice makes the win even more astounding.
It was the second year in a row that the Israelis stunned the peewee hockey world and snagged gold at the Bernières-Saint-Rédempteur (BSR) International Peewee Tournament.
The Israeli team called itself the “Bat Yam Hockey Club” even though it is made up of players from Bat Yam, Rishon Lezion, Nes Ziona, Maalot and Kfar Saba, which all have clubs that play in the Ice Hockey Federation of Israel championships. Peewee is the youngest level of organized hockey in Israel and because it is still in its infancy there were not enough players from just one club to send to the tournament.
The Israelis were considered the underdogs...
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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