mww_admin Any Palestinian children detained by Israel are held by the Israel Prison Service, which is civilian-run. Reasons for the detainment of Palestinian children include violent acts such as rock-throwing, Molotov cocktail attacks, and even murder. Palestinian media, government officials, and religious leaders frequently encourage their youth to take violence against Israeli civilians.
The Amnesty Report, which came out in January 2022, is yet another travesty of a report that feigns concern for human rights. It makes several outlandish claims against Israel and omits crucial information to support their case. Check out our amazing resources to help you counter claims that Amnesty International has any leg to stand … Read more
BOSTON, February 28th, 2023 – In the Spring term, a disinformation campaign attempts to take root on college and university campuses. Widely advertised as “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW), the effort promoted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), and Palestinian Societies (PalSocs) spread the libelous assertion of “Israeli apartheid”— … Read more
Apartheid Week is an annual event on college campuses, featuring mock checkpoints, fake eviction notices, and problematic speakers meant to intimidate and harass students. SJP and its supporters design the campaign specifically to alarm students and increase hostility for Jews and Zionists, all under the guise of “awareness” of Palestinian struggles. However, bringing terrorists to … Read more
Those with firsthand knowledge of US-Israel police exchange programs have thoroughly refuted this libel. As CAMERA’s Ricki Hollander has noted, “the [Deadly Exchange] campaign is built entirely on fabrications brazenly promoted by Israel’s antagonists whose main goal is to stir up hatred against the Jewish state and Jewish organizations in the U.S.” When Deadly Exchange … Read more
In its recent report alleging Israeli war crimes in the May fighting with Hamas in Gaza, Human Rights Watch (see analysis here) repeatedly questioned Israel’s claims that the IDF was targeting Hamas tunnels and underground command centers, saying that HRW’s investigators could find no trace of these supposed tunnels. But now comes a report from … Read more
The Guardian published an op-ed length letter by dozens of Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals (including PLO official Hanan Ashrawi and Guardian contributors Raja Shehadeh and Rashid Khalidi) taking aim at the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. The letter (“Palestinian rights and the IHRA definition of antisemitism”, Nov. 29) begins with a variation … Read more
The Guardian continued its assault on the legitimacy of the International Holocaust Rememberance Association’s Working Definition of Antisemitism today by publishing a letter full of distortions about the definition. The IHRA definition, we should note, has been adopted or endorsed by 30 (democratic) countries, the EU Council, EU Parliament, EU Commission, EU Council, the UN … Read more
National Geographic magazine has an unfortunate habit of regularly publishing inaccurate and intemperate articles about Israel, which have falsely blamed Israel for expelling Palestinians, for being responsible for declines in the Arab Christian population (which has actually increased in Israel), for discriminating against Israeli Arabs, and for oppressing Bethlehem. To this list of false accusations … Read more
In recent years press accounts have charged Israel with unfairly and illegally draining water from “Palestinian aquifers,” enabling Israelis to enjoy green lawns, clean cars and full swimming pools, while leaving Palestinians with barely enough to drink. Thus, the New York Times reported last year that: In the West Bank, water allocation is a zero-sum … Read more