Overview Background of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute The lengthy and continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has evolved, over the years, through various phases or cycles of terror on the one hand, and attempts at peace-making on the other. These cycles have ranged from sporadic, individual, and organized acts of violence, terror, and armed conflict […]
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has become one of the largest UN programs, with over 30,000 personnel operating in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. It remains the only UN agency whose area of operation is not global but regional, and […]
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 […]
In the struggle for hearts and minds, imagery is more compelling than dry, defensive arguments.
About Research Areas Subscribe Back Issues Special Issues Article Subjects Volume 29, Numbers 3–4 Freedom Denied: A Firsthand Look at Kurdistan’s Referendum Debacle, One Year On by Zach Huff No Arab Demographic Time Bomb by Amb. Yoram Ettinger Verses and Reality: What the Koran Really Says about Jews by Israel Shrenzel The Arab-Muslim Slave Trade: […]
A Sampling of Jewish Political Studies Review Articles Europe and Israel International Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Arab World Israeli International Relations Israeli National Identity American Jewish Community Jewish Political Tradition Europe and Israel Holocaust Remembrance in the Council of Europe: Deplorable Victims and Evil Ideologies without Perpetrators The […]
Volume 24, Numbers 3–4 (Fall 2012) Message from the Editor Building the Positive Peace: The Urgent Need to Bring the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Back to Basics Kobi Michael and Joel Fishman The Zionist Message Hidden within Antique Pictures of the Holy Land Lenny Ben-David Intelligence Failure or Paralysis? Amnon Lord Could French Reporting on Israel Reflect […]
It is one of the bitter ironies of the dialectics of modernity that the very sphere of science and academia, the purpose of which is to enlighten mankind, has provided intellectual cover to modern Jew-hatred. It was in Germany of all places that scientific discovery and academic discourse were subject to the utmost perversion, contributing intellectually and technically to the Holocaust.
Anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli manifestations reached post-Second World War highs during Israel’s recent Gaza campaign. A number of new hate thresholds were crossed. There were much-increased public expressions of equating Israel with Nazi Germany. Calls for the murder of Jews abounded for the first time in demonstrations in Germany, as well as in the United States. A number of actions by various independent Muslim bodies in several Western countries manifested their desire to conquer the public
European states over the past decades did not understand that the threats Israel was encountering in those years were essentially precursors of the menaces they would face as well. Had leading European politicians realized that a broader assault by radical Islam was underway – ultimately directed at their countries rather than at Israel alone – they likely would not have made the major errors they committed – particularly in the area of immigration – that have undermined European security today.
The Perpetrators, the Anti-Semitic Hate Motifs Used, the War’s Methodology, the Hate Distribution Mechanisms, and a Strategy for Countercombat
The relationship between Europe and Israel is complex, tense, and historically loaded. A growing gap has developed between their political outlooks. European political actions can continue to cause Israel so many problems and harms that these in the longer run may increasingly dominate all other aspects of the relationship.
In the wake of the Holocaust, as human rights norms have come to the fore, NGOs have become major actors in international politics in general and in the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. These organizations and their leaders form an extremely powerful “NGO community” that has propelled the anti-Israeli agenda in international frameworks such as the UN Human Rights Commission and the 2001 UN Conference against Racism in Durban. Through their reports, press releases, and influence among academics and diplomats, these NGOs propagated false charges of “massacre” during the Israeli army’s antiterror operation in Jenin (Defensive Shield) and misrepresent Israel’s separation barrier as an “apartheid wall.”