Three items in this newsletter for your information: AJC’s “Governors United Against BDS” initiative update SFMEW speaker (June, 2016) Bassem Eid’s Times of Israel Editorial Beit Tikvah Cantor Ephraim Herrera Concert, June 4, 3:00 pm 1. AJC’s Governors United Against […]
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Bill 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 moreAction Alert: (1) Ask Our Senators to Co-Sign the Rubio/Coons letter; (2) About Marwan Barghouti; (3) Yom HaShoah update
We hope your Passover or Easter was meaningful for you. Unfortunately, the anti-Israel bashing continues worldwide. (1) In the Senate – update 4/28/17 – **all 100 senators signed onto the Rubio/Coons Letter!** 85 senators have co-signed a letter to UN […]
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 moreThe Confusion over Jerusalem in the Media; the role of the Ambassador-Designate, David Friedman
1. The US Embassy in Jerusalem Should we move the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv? Every presidential candidate since Bill Clinton (except for Hillary Clinton this year) has claimed (s)he would do it unilaterally, unrelated to any particular peace […]
Read moreAmbassador Dennis Ross, February 15, 2017
You can watch Ambassador Ross’ talk just below. It is also available on Youtube. Thanks to Ron Duncan-Hart and Gaon Video for recording and editing the evening. [Please note that this recording works well on a computer, iPad, TV, or other […]
Read moreUN Resolution 242 of 1967
There are many misinterpretations of UN Security Council resolution 242. The most common one is the assertion that Israel has to give back all of the territories gained from the 1967 Six-Day War. To the contrary, the wording of this […]
Read moreThe History of the Term “Palestine”; Has There Ever Been a Sovereign Arab State in Palestine?
Origins of the Name “Palestine” from: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/palname.html Though the definite origins of the word “Palestine” have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. […]
Read moreYour Tax Dollars Fund Palestinian Terror – David Feith 8/11/16
Many of you are aware that there has been a sign on Old Pecos Trail that disparages Israel and has complained about US Funding for Israel. The sign message changes from time-to-time depending on whether anonymous folks paint over it and […]
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