A lot has been written on the Valerie Plame twitter debacle. Just google her name and you’ll find pages of links to analysis, ridicule, irony, and exposé. Probably the best (and longest) analysis of the situation is by Vox Tablet […]
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Urge our senators to co-sponsor the Israel Anti-Boycott Act; Zach Benjamin’s Op-Ed in the New Mexican
Take Action: Ask Senators Heinrich and Udall to Co-sponsor the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720). The Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720) has 48 senate co-sponsors. Unfortunately neither of our two senators has signed on to co-sponsor. Here’s your chance to […]
Read moreKristina Harrigan in the New Mexican – Yasher Koach!
Briefly: L’Shana Tovah U’Metukah – a happy and sweet New Year to all. Making New Year resolutions? We suggest: resolve for the year 5778 to use your shofar to expand your pro-Israel voice through media and political advocacy, and volunteering […]
Read more(1) Meeting Reminder – Monday, Sept. 18; (2) Faust on KVSF 101.5 FM; (3) Dershowitz in WSJ
(1) Meeting Reminder – Monday, Sept. 18, 7:15pm. We need your input on such areas as anti-Israel graffiti posters showing up around Santa Fe (see below for one on the corner of Don Diego and Cordova), enacting an anti-BDS legislative […]
Read more(1) Meeting Reminder; (2) Want to improve your Hasbara – CoHaV
Meeting Reminder: Monday, September 18, 7:15 pm, Home of Marcia Torobin After a relatively quiet summer we have a full agenda for discussion including anti-BDS legislation, political advocacy, “graffiti” posters around town, scheduling speakers for 2017-2018, our educational media program, […]
Read moreLannan Foundation 2017-2018 Schedule of Speakers – finally not anti-Israel
The Lannan Foundation just announced its line-up for speakers and moderators for the 2017-2018 season. While in prior years they have always had an anti-Semitic speaker ranting against Israel (and often the US – see our documentation of these speakers […]
Read moreMedical Ethics Obligation or Chutzpah?
What do you think? If someone calls for boycotting Israel, conforming to the BDS call, and disseminating films slandering Israel with the specious blood libel of “massacre,” is there a moral obligation to provide this person with a precious, resource-scarce […]
Read more(1) A Rabbi’s Response, published on Tish’a B’Av; (2) Iran fomented Palestinian Temple Mount Riots
Yashar Koach to Rabbi Levertov, in the Letters to the Editor in the Santa Fe New Mexican, August 1, 2017, as we remember on this Tish’a B’Av: A grandfather, his son and daughter, Yosef, Elad and Chaya Salomon, are butchered to death in […]
Read moreUpdated resources
We’ve recently updated two of our resource pages. “Indigenous Peoples” There are two relevant questions related to “indigenous peoples” designations for the Land of Israel. The first asks, “are Jews an indigenous people in Israel?” The unequivocal answer to this […]
Read more(1) Misleading Headlines; (2) Populism; (3) “Words=Violence?”; (4) Jewish Federation of New Mexico
Misleading Headlines and the Temple Mount: “3 Palestinians and 3 Israelis die in new violence.” We’ve seen it before in the Santa Fe New Mexican – headlines that attempt equivalency when none really exists. The text in this article from July […]
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