Briefly: L’Shana Tovah U’Metukah – a happy and sweet New Year to all. Making New Year resolutions? We suggest: resolve for the year 5778 to use your shofar to expand your pro-Israel voice through media and political advocacy, and volunteering […]
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Lannan Foundation 2017-2018 Schedule of Speakers – finally not anti-Israel
The Lannan Foundation just announced its line-up for speakers and moderators for the 2017-2018 season. While in prior years they have always had an anti-Semitic speaker ranting against Israel (and often the US – see our documentation of these speakers […]
Read moreUpdated resources
We’ve recently updated two of our resource pages. “Indigenous Peoples” There are two relevant questions related to “indigenous peoples” designations for the Land of Israel. The first asks, “are Jews an indigenous people in Israel?” The unequivocal answer to this […]
Read more(1) New Mexican Letter Writer Gets It Wrong; (2) BDS Seems Ineffective on Israeli Tourism
Mark Davis “Off-the-Mark” in New Mexican Letter to the Editor On July 10, 2017 Mark Davis wrote a New Mexican letter-to-the-editor (see full text of letter below) complaining that Suki Halevi’s op-ed (see here for a copy of Suki’s work) excoriating […]
Read more1. Next Meeting – This Thursday; 2. Yasher Koach to Suki Halevi
Happy Birthday, America Santa Fe Middle East Watch membership meeting: Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the home of Halley and Ruth Anne Faust, 1260 Vallecita Drive, Santa Fe at 7:00 pm. Directions can be found here. Please come fragrance […]
Read moreBill Stewart in the New Mexican May 6 – Unhinged Again
Bill Stewart’s False Facts In a thinly veiled response to SFMEW’s blog critique of his last anti-Zionist article, and Susan Goldstein’s subsequent letter to the New Mexican’s editor, Stewart produced another inaccurate and extraordinarily biased column in the New Mexican on May 6, […]
Read morePropaganda, BDS, CNN, Fareed Zakaria – all wrapped into one
Have you ever felt that what you hear on many programs from Palestinian speakers is just plain propaganda? Well, your intuition is likely correct. Often it is insidious, using techniques that are subtle but effective. We’d strongly recommend that you take […]
Read morePropaganda by Palestinians
Propaganda is different from persuasion. Persuasion uses legitimate facts and arguments to support claims. Propaganda uses illogical techniques to try to bolster false claims, yet the arguments often appear either logical or they call upon your emotions to acquiesce to an […]
Read moreManny Marczak, Rich Lieberman, and Jacob Amir in New Mexican; France Funds NGOs that support BDS
Recent op-eds and letters from our members Yasher Koach to three of our active writers, each of whom has had a letter or op-ed printed in the Santa Fe New Mexican in the past week. 1. Manny Marczak writes in an […]
Read moreAnti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Is anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism? What is anti-Semitism anyhow? How do we differentiate criticism of Israel’s policies/actions from anti-Semitism? Many have struggled with this question since the beginning of the settlement of the Land of Israel. Those who wish […]
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