Following a recently broadcasted conversation with Fleur-Hassan Nahoum, current Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and co-founder of the UAE — Israel Business Council, I found it essential to narrow down concrete examples of the changing climate in the Middle East following the Abraham Accords, notably taking into account both the financial...
J Street and the Myth of “Creeping Annexation”
Photo: Almon Roth/Wikimedia Commons When organizations or activists report on the Arab-Israeli conflict, instead of relying on the facts, many choose to construct a false narrative that casts Israel in a poor light. J Street, a self-proclaimed pro-Israel and pro-peace organization, resorts to this tactic as well. On April 18th-19th,...
Apartheid Libel is a Cover to Target Jews
Israel is not an apartheid state per any definition of the word. Apartheid refers to the legal, political and societal structure of discrimination that the white minority of South African citizens imposed on the black and Asian South African citizens from 1948 to 1994. Disenfranchisement was followed by segregation, violence,...
The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli ‘Pinkwashing’
Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli Pinkwashing By: Austin Pellizzer On March 8, 2021, the so-called ‘human rights group’ Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, launched an “Israeli Pinkwashing” campaign on its Facebook page targeting the Jewish State with...
Academic Antisemitism: In the Name of Palestine, Let’s Fail Some Jews
Photo: John D’Alembert/Wikimedia Commons Surprise, surprise: another case of academic discrimination against Jewish students. This time, the culprit is a chemistry teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University named Rasha Anayah. It seems her hatred for Israel has morphed into the potential abuse of her academic power. In late November, she posted a...
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine – Noura Erakat Misrepresents History
Photo: Israel Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons Noura Erakat, assistant professor at George Mason University, claims in her new book “Justice for Some: The Question of Palestine,” that international law operates under the settler-colonial framework, and as a result has historically favored the State of Israel. According to Erakat: International law...
Abraham Accords are not a Betrayal of Palestinians
For the first time since 1994, several Arab countries have fully normalized their diplomatic relations with Israel. This wave of normalization started with the Abraham Accords, a joint statement between the United States, United Arab Emirates and Israel that marked the beginning of normalized diplomatic relations between the UAE and Israel. Over the...
Witnesses Dispute Claims Made by Breaking the Silence’s Joel Carmel
Photo: Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons “Everyone was against us. Everything in the MSM [mainstream media] was anti-Israel, and we had a responsibility to show the other side,’” Joel Carmel, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier and now English content coordinator for the Breaking the Silence NGO, said of the zeitgeist characterizing...