This comprehensive survey describes the hateful messages of those who defame Israel, explains how these messages are transmitted to the public, and proposes innovative ideas to combat BDS.
One of the major Palestinian Arab arguments regarding the establishment of the state of Israel is that the West facilitated its founding out of guilt over the Holocaust.
Introduction In the summer of 2014, Hamas fired more than four thousand rockets, and assaulted Israel using a vast underground network of attack tunnels that reached well into Israeli territory. The Israel Defense Forces responded by targeting the terrorist infrastructure of Gaza, triggering scores of pro-Hamas demonstrations in European and North American cities in […]
Overall, the cultural boycott of Israel appears to be losing ground.
Since the late 1990s influential human rights NGOs such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International have been at the forefront of attempts to delegitimize Israel. These international NGOs often work in concert with the Arab League and the Islamic bloc in UN frameworks, as well as with Israeli and Palestinian NGOs, promoting false […]
Blaise Pascal once observed that “people…arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof, but on the basis of what they find attractive.”1 Today this is confirmed by science, and it explains why Palestinians have won the media war. In 2011 – an age of abundant and verifiable information – opinion polls found that […]
BDS promotes values that are in opposition to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Is the scenario of a full-scale EU boycott of Israel at all realistic?
Dr. Dan Diker – President Dr. Dan Diker, Senior Fellow and longtime Director of the Counter-Political Warfare Project at the Jerusalem Center, is former Secretary-General of the World Jewish Congress and Research Fellow of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism at Reichman University (formerly IDC, Herzliya). He has written six books exposing the “apartheid antisemitism” […]
For Students The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is committed to helping students of Israel and Middle Eastern studies achieve their academic and career goals. You are invited to explore the wealth of material related to Israel’s security needs available from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. One of the Jerusalem Center’s journals, Jewish Political […]
In the struggle for hearts and minds, imagery is more compelling than dry, defensive arguments.
After civilians were murdered in Syria with chemical weapons, where is the international community?
In spite of its constant use of belligerent, violent, and deceitful tactics, the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement against Israel has very little to show in the way of success.
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Israel’s Basic Rights Ten False Assumptions Regarding Israel Amb. Alan Baker, August 15, 2016 Israel is inundated with one-sided international resolutions, declarations, “peace plans,” and advice from governments, international organizations, leaders, pundits, and elements within the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities. Most of the above rest on widely-held, false and mistaken assumptions regarding preconceived notions […]
