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California Governor Signs Anti-BDS Bill into Law

[ Ed. note – Hardly a surprise.] Times of Israel California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a measure that prevents companies that boycott or discriminate against any sovereign country, including Israel, from doing business with the state. Brown signed Assembly Bill 2844 on Saturday afternoon. The State Senate approved the bill by a vote …

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Heroic Swedish Foreign Minister Again Speaks the Truth About Israel

[Ed. note – Less than a month after the last tide of Zionist outrage unleashed against Margot Wallström, the Swedish Foreign Minister  is once again coming under fire for critical comments about Israel. Obstinate gal. Clearly she didn’t learn her lesson. ] Press TV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized the Swedish foreign minister, who had …

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Have Pillaged Iraqi Artifacts Ended Up in a Museum in Israel?

By Richard Edmondson With ISIS carrying out rampages through archaeologically sensitive areas of Iraq, a pertinent question to ask now is what group’s cultural heritage in the Middle East is being preserved, and whose is being destroyed. Over the past couple of weeks shocking reports have surfaced concerning mass destruction of Iraq’s cultural heritage at …

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Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights

By Alison Weir An article in Middle East Quarterly, a pro-Israel publication, reports that support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent currently stating support for Israel above Palestinians. This trend is even more pronounced among youth, according to an article by David Brog, Jewish-American executive director of “Christians United For Israel (CUFI), …

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Israel Losing Support From Its Biggest Ally: US Evangelical Christians

A Shift Among Evangelicals … Especially Among the Young We documented yesterday that the biggest supporters of Israel are American evangelical Christians … Protestants or – to a lesser extent – Catholics. But that support base is slipping … Buzzfeed reported in January: Figures with deep roots in America’s religious right have launched a quiet effort aimed at pushing …

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Now It Is Official: Israeli Campaign to Control Wikipedia Content

Wikimedia has struck a deal with Israeli officials to promote students’ multi-lingual writing and re-writing of history, geography and science topics in Wikipedia. Unwitting readers of Wikipedia likely take accounts of Middle Eastern history at face value, not realising the extent of manipulation occurring behind the seemingly authoritative guise of an encyclopaedia.  From word choice, to basic information given …

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