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BoD’s Arkush: The Consequences of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘antisemitic views’
31 May, 2018
By Anna Mikhailova, Telegraph, 30.05.18 Jeremy Corbyn has been accused by one of Britain’s most senior Jewish leaders of holding “anti-Semitic views” which could drive Jewish people out of Britain if he becomes Prime Minister. Jonathan Arkush, the outgoing President of the Board of Deputies, said British Jews were for the first time asking “do […]
Read MoreSociologist David Hirsh Digs Deep to Explain Antisemitism and The Left
3 May, 2018
Sussex Jewish News, February 2018, p. 14 Book Review by Winston PickettSometimes the first two sentences of an author’s work explain everything. At other times they offer hints of what’s to come. In David Hirsh’s case, they do both.“This book is about antisemitism in social spaces which think of themselves as anti-racist and democratic,” writes Hirsh, a […]
Read MoreJeremy Corbyn can’t pretend he has only just noticed
27 March, 2018
The Labour leader refers to ‘pockets’ of antisemitism in his party but fails to say that for 30 years he was in them too Hugo Rifkind, The TIMES, 26 March 2018 Did you know that Jeremy Corbyn’s mother fought at the Battle of Cable Street? I know it’s a well-kept political secret, a […]
Read MorePalestinians, Israelis work together to clear medicines from water
By Sharon Udasin The Jerusalem Post Published 08/20/2013 00:21 Joint Israeli-Palestinian research team is working to eradicate pharmaceutical materials from treated waste-water. For a group of Palestinian and Israeli researchers investigating methods to completely purify water from medicinal materials, working together is nothing short of critical. “It is a must,” Dr. Rafik Karaman, of Al-Quds […]
In role reversal, Beijing businesses looking label ‘Made in Israel’
From the Jerusalem Post September 3, 2013 Visiting Chinese trade reps tout Israel’s “world-class products.” The ubiquitous “Made in China” stamp that for years could be found on cheap manufactured goods in Israel and around the world is gradually giving way to a new economic reality. On Monday, representatives from Canton Fair, China’s largest trade […]
Letter to the Sussex Express regarding Southern Water
The Editor Sussex Express Temple House, 25-26 High Street, Lewes East Sussex BN7 2LU 3 September 2013 Dear sir Sussex Friends of Israel Congratulate Southern Water Southern Water should be roundly congratulated for its unprejudiced commercial decision to source the technologically advanced Arad Technologies water meters from Israel for its universal metering programme, safeguarding water […]
Israeli drip system pioneer honored with top water prize
By David Shamah The Times of Israel Netafim nabs Stockholm Industry Water Award for helping farmers in developing countries live better Netafim, the Israeli company that invented drip irrigation, has been awarded what is considered the most prestigious honor in the world of water conservation and protection, the Stockholm Industry Water Award. Netafim won the […]
Did your Mother ever tell you… St George’s parish church, Belfast
By nifriendsofisrael on 03/09/2013 he parish magazine of St George’s in Belfast recently published an article reminding the Israeli Jews that two wrongs didn’t make a right. They had suffered the Holocaust but were now visiting something similar on a blameless people, the Palestinian Arabs. The editor graciously gave NIFI’s Steven Jaffe a right of […]
Israel’s population hits 8-million mark on Jewish New Year
By Danielle Ziri The Jerusalem Post Since last year, the population has grown by 142,000 or by 1.8%. On the eve of Rosh Hashana Israel’s population is estimated at approximately 8.081 million, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics’ annual population report released on Monday. According to the data presented, the Jewish population in the […]
Wounded Syrians find sanctuary in Israeli hospital
By Geraint Vincent, Correspondent, NBC News As the conflict in Syria continues, the number of injured Syrians reaching Israel to receive treatment is rising. The Syrian regime is a longtime Israeli enemy, and its citizens are banned from travel to Israel. Meanwhile Israelis citizens, worried about a possible chemical attack, are lining up at gas […]
Pro-Israel Christians stage anti-bias protest at festival
By Simon Rocker, August 29, 2013 The Jewish Chronicle More than 100 Christian supporters of Israel staged a demonstration outside a religious festival on Sunday in protest at its stance on the Middle East. Waving Israeli flags and banners, they read biblical texts on the Jewish link to Israel at the entrance to the annual […]
Dialogue Between Christians and Jews is Vital
International Council of Christians and Jews Responding to Mark Braverman REVD. DAVID GIFFORD; ICCJ BOARD MEMBER | 29.08.2013 ICCJ Board member Revd David Gifford responds to a book written by Dr. Mark Braverman, in which Braverman argues that Christians involved in dialogue with Jews, on the Palestine issue, have sold out to an agenda of […]
Roger Waters and BDS Movement are an Embarrassment
By Ben Cohen Algemeiner August 29, 2013 JNS.org – Back in 1976, when the burgeoning punk movement began transforming the rock’n’roll landscapes of London and New York, a young man named John Lydon scrawled the words “I Hate…” on his Pink Floyd t-shirt. With this one stroke, Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, the lead singer of […]
Where Muslims Can Speak Freely in the Middle East
http://tinyurl.com/o6jz6vw Today it has become evident that that leaders and members of the Islamic Movement in Israel enjoy more freedom and rights than the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan, and even — under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank — Hamas. Arab journalists and columnists in Israel have been expressing their views about the […]
Open Letter to Southern Water from Sussex Friends of Israel
Mr Matthew Wright Chief Executive Southern Water Yeoman Road Worthing BN13 3NX Dear Mr Wright Southern Water contract with Arad Technologies I would like to congratulate Southern Water on its continuing contract with Arad Technologies in Israel, for the supply of the latest and most technologically advanced water meters, for your universal metering programme across […]