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, […]
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Lannan 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 […]
Read more(1) New Mexican Letter Writer Gets It Wrong; (2) BDS Seems Ineffective on Israeli Tourism
Mark Davis “Off-the-Mark” in New Mexican Letter to the Editor On July 10, 2017 Mark Davis wrote a New Mexican letter-to-the-editor (see full text of letter below) complaining that Suki Halevi’s op-ed (see here for a copy of Suki’s work) excoriating […]
Read moreSupport Israel Bonds – Sunday, July 16, ABQ
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Read more1. Next Meeting – This Thursday; 2. Yasher Koach to Suki Halevi
Happy Birthday, America Santa Fe Middle East Watch membership meeting: Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the home of Halley and Ruth Anne Faust, 1260 Vallecita Drive, Santa Fe at 7:00 pm. Directions can be found here. Please come fragrance […]
Read moreMeeting Reminder SFMEW Thursday, July 6, 2017, 7:00pm
The next Santa Fe Middle East Watch membership meeting is on Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the home of Halley and Ruth Anne Faust, 1260 Vallecita Drive, Santa Fe at 7:00 pm. Directions below. We want your input on […]
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