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Are storm clouds over Rhodes campus as ugly as they were over Cambridge?

Steve Apfel — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:32:08 +0000

The Cambridge fiasco is one more battle anti-Zionists will chalk up. They have won a few – too many – but never for bigger loot than Professor Stephen Hawkins who got snatched for the academic boycott with nary a shot fired. If a pro-Israel vanguard exists it was stuck in barracks. On a different battlefield [...]

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Does it matter if a boycott campaigner addresses a Jewish audience?

Steve Apfel — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:51:55 +0000

What great principle is violated when a Jewish academic, unexceptional without his vocal support for boycotting Israel, speaks on some tepid topic at the South African Union of Jewish Women? What makes it wrong? Or, how is it wrong? A strong minded Zionist would brand him a traitor and have the man sent to Coventry. [...]

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Obama’s peace broker and the great peace blocker

Steve Apfel — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:57:27 +0000

For the mired Middle East peace process the opposing camps vicariously blame four things: (1) The antipathy of Arab leaders to a Jewish flag in the neighborhood (2) Israeli settlement building in the West Bank; (3) Israeli occupation; and (4) Palestinian insistence on the Right of Return. US Secretary of State John Kerry will no [...]

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Passover and the modern day Moses

Steve Apfel — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:18:14 +0000

The liberation of a people from slavery. No wonder Passover is a time when aficionados of human rights feel drawn to play a modern day Moses. ‘Let my people go!’ The festival, they think, comes around to prod Israelis to realize they’ve become the Pharaoh their prophet once entreated. Let the persecuted Palestinians go free. [...]

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The International Community: It is what it is

Steve Apfel — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:33:23 +0000

‘In two words we trust.’ If the Left – BDS – NGO – Arab axis has a backbone it would be a bodiless power called the ‘international Community.’ That its proportions and makeup are ill-defined hardly matters, and even may help, considering that a notional body can pack a punch above its weight. With power and [...]

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Possible that a famous journo can hate Israel but not Jews?

Steve Apfel — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:12:54 +0000

Two protagonists of Zionism start off in concert. One is a million man marcher and American Islamist; the other is a long-in-the-tooth British-turned Lebanese journo. The name of the one is Louis Farrakhan; and the other is Robert Fisk. There seems to be an unwritten law that Israel and Jews cannot be criticized, especially by [...]

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Apartheid for the papparazzi

Steve Apfel — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:34:39 +0000

Conjure if you will, a Greek who sets out to make his reputation by defaming the Greek people. If that’s worth only a chuckle, what to make of the Gideon Levy’s of Israel? Levy, you may recall, is the journalist for Ha’aretz who took the results of a poll and contorted them into the libel [...]

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Jewish and Muslim: A tale of two treatments

Steve Apfel — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:32:30 +0000

The serial mayhem and murder visited upon American facilities and staff is meant to coerce the free world into censorship out of respect, perversely for a religion that respects and tolerates no other. From the time the riots broke out on the anniversary of 9/11, Muslim leaders took no pains to hide that coercive goal. [...]

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Zionists, Jews and Israel: Are they different for Israel-bashers?

Steve Apfel — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:42:38 +0000

Soviet bashers Under Stalin and then Kruscheff, the Soviets weaved Zionism, Jews and Judaism into one motif. Judaic sermons are the sermons of bourgeois Zionists. (Ukrainian broadcast, Korovograd, December 1959.) The character of the Jewish religion serves the political aims of the Zionists. (Paul Johnson. A History of the Jews, 2001): Zionism is inseparably linked to Judaism [...]

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How anti-Semites protect themselves

Steve Apfel — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:13:25 +0000

In the mendacious media haunts of anti-Zionists it’s worse to accuse somebody of being anti-Semitic than to be anti-Semitic. That extends to Holocaust deniers who coattail on ‘middle-of-the-road’ anti-Semites, like Sheikh Adel Bin Ahmad of Jiddah. The Jews disseminate everywhere the lie of the Holocaust and claim that Hitler killed six million Jews in gas chambers. Although [...]

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Book Review by Chairman of Likud SA

Steve Apfel — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:22:09 +0000

HADRIAN’S ECHO: THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF ISRAEL’S CRITICS By Leon Reich We may have given up looking for a fresh take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When not prescribing policy, commentators either make a case for Israel or tweak, twist and invent its faults, and on every count hand down their target market’s demand for [...]

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Don’t buy arguments for not buying goods made in Israel

Steve Apfel — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:53:18 +0000

Even if they’re the arguments of a former Israeli ambassador, don’t buy them. Alon Liel is an archetype figure spawned by an industry without parallel. I mean that – industry. Who would dispute the economic dimension to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, looking at the employment and income generated, the information fabricated, the rivalry [...]

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Alice the purple color Hebrew-hating chicken Walker

Steve Apfel — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:18:56 +0000

Alice Walker won’t allow her book, The Color Purple to be read in Hebrew. Secreted off the forbidden record of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Cape Town, November 2011 Counsel for the Hebrews Your Honor, learned members, a belief in the inherent evil of the Hebrews can plunge even intelligent men and women to depths of [...]

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IS the media anti-Semitic?

Steve Apfel — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:56:56 +0000

We’ve seen how the media conditions people to be anti-Israel. But does that have to mean the media is anti-Semitic? Already that’s the wrong question to pose because, if you think about it, the media has two living thinking parts: the corporate and the human. Therefore should we not address two corresponding questions: 1. Is it [...]

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How media condition people to be anti-Israel

Steve Apfel — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:48:30 +0000

Consider this lofty statement on media conduct from Jovial Rantao, editor of The Sunday Independent in Johannesburg: Credibility is the lifeblood of our profession. Without it we are nothing. Without it, not one person will believe a single word that we write. One of the basic tenets of our profession is to ensure that the [...]

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