Young Israel of East Brunswick

Photos taken at local stores during "Buy Israeli Goods" Day on March 30, 2011, to counter the anti-Israel boycott

Photos taken at local stores during "Buy Israeli Goods" Day on March 30, 2011, to counter the anti-Israel boycott.

Sarah Naus, Kathy Brody & Leah Weinberger

with the department manager at Costco, and with

the cashier at Harmon's on Route 18.

Sarah Naus, Kathy Brody & Leah Weinberger with the department manager at Costco

Sarah Naus, Kathy Brody & Leah Weinberger with the cashier at Harmon's on Route 18.

Belfast Guards Save Israeli Speaker from Pro-Arab Attackers

Arutz Sheva

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Pro-Arab hecklers at Belfast’s Queen’s University recently threatened an Israeli speaker, who was rescued by security men, but his taxi was attacked as he fled.

Solon Solomon, a former member of the Knesset’s legal department, had been invited to speak to law students at the university, but Palestine Solidarity Society (PSS) and Sinn Fein hecklers forced him to abandon the lecture hall. They surrounded the room where he had fled, until security men rescued him.

Meanwhile, members of the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel ran into another room until they could leave safely.

After security guards ushered Solomon into a taxi, the anti-Israeli mob attacked the vehicle and tried to break its windows. The taxi ran over the foot of one of the protesters who was attempting to stop the vehicle.

The Belfast Herald noted that Israel Professor Geoffrey Alderman had been invited to join a panel at a Queen’s Festival event but the invitation later was rescinded without explanation.

The newspaper wrote of the incident at Queen’s University, “This is not actually an issue about being pro or anti Israel. It’s about being pro-freedom of speech."

"We have been told that disciplinary proceedings are a matter for the university authorities," reported the student newspaper The Gown. "Offenses of misconduct [at the university] include criminal damage, nuisance behavior and disorderly behavior. If an individual is found to have carried out an offense it could result in a £150 fine or expulsion from the University.”

University official Sarah Wheeler said, “It’s very sad really, I suppose in 25 years as an academic, I’ve never seen anyone shouted down after five minutes speaking.”

A Sinn Fein member told the student newspaper, “It’s a disgrace we invited a war criminal. There was meant to be a debate but they only invited one side.” Sinn Fein during its extreme terrorist days received assistance and training from Palestinian terror groups. Although it has "renounced" terrorism the organization continues to be partisanly anti-Israel.

Hamas fights UN's 'poisonous' Holocaust lessons in Gazan schools

Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian, February 28th, 2011

Hamas has vowed to stop the United Nations teaching children in Gaza about the Holocaust, saying it will poison their minds.

The history of the Holocaust is planned to be included as part of a human rights curriculum in schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees. More than 200,000 children attend UNRWA schools in Gaza.

Hamas, the Islamist organisation that runs Gaza, has said it will do all it can to stop the teaching of Holocaust studies.

"We cannot agree to a programme that is intended to poison the minds of our children," said a statement from the ministry for refugee affairs.

"Holocaust studies in refugee camps is a contemptible plot and serves the Zionist entity with a goal of creating a reality and telling stories in order to justify acts of slaughter against the Palestinian people."

It said UNRWA should focus on the human rights of Palestinian refugees.

Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the agency, said: "We teach the universal declaration of human rights and UN resolutions as part of our human rights curriculum, which has been taught in UNRWA schools since 2002."

John Ging, the former director of UNRWA in Gaza who left to take up a new role this month, was a key proponent of including the Holocaust in the human rights curriculum, arguing that all the factors that led to the universal declaration at the end of the second world war must be covered.

Ging, a passionate advocate of the rights of Palestinian refugees and a vocal critic of Israel's policies towards Gaza, said Palestinian children needed to understand the great injustices of the 20th century, including the Holocaust, in order to fight legitimately for their own cause.

He was aware of Hamas objections to the plan, but told the Guardian last December: "There is a competition for influence here [in Gaza]. We have to rise to that challenge."

UNRWA has extensively consulted parents and civil society organisations in Gaza on the inclusion of the Holocaust in its human rights curriculum.

A project to take Gazan schoolchildren on trips abroad to learn about struggles for human rights has also come under fire from Hamas.

The Islamist organisation asked UNRWA to stop exposing Palestinian children to the Holocaust after a film about a trip to the US showed boys from Gaza at an exhibition on the Jewish genocide.

Farrakhan: Jews are pushing the US into war

By LAHAV HARKOV
Reprinted from the Jerusalem Post 03/02/2011 10:10

Nation of Islam leader says his comments on Jews are meant "to pull the cover off Satan" and "Zionists dominate the US government and banks."

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war" and are a cover for Satan, at the group's annual meeting near Chicago on Tuesday.

“President Obama," Farrakhan said, "if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Gaddafi and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I’m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves.” Farrakhan called Muammar Gaddafi "my brother" and "my friend."

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He also accused American Zionists of attempting to push Israel into war with Iran, adding that "Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system."

One panel at the conference, titled "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," claimed that Jews were disproportionately involved in the slave trade and accused them of controlling the media.

“Some of you think that I’m just somebody who’s got something out for the Jewish people," Farrakhan said. "You’re stupid. Do you think I would waste my time if I did not think it was important for you to know Satan? My job is to pull the cover off of Satan so that he will never deceive you and the people of the world again.”

In response, ADL National Director Abe Foxman said: "Anti-Semitism has suffused the Nation of Islam's message, and Farrakhan is the standard bearer and bigot in chief....Perhaps what's more disturbing is that despite his anti-Semitic rants, he has not been made a pariah in his own community. What does it take for him to stop being a pied piper of hatred?"

In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council

The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.

But the Palestinians rejected the American offer following a meeting late Wednesday of Arab representatives and said it is planning to press for a vote on its resolution on Friday, according to officials familar with the issue. The decision to reject the American offer raised the prospect that the Obama adminstration will cast its first ever veto in the U.N. Security Council.

Still, the U.S. offer signaled a renewed willingness to seek a way out of the current impasse, even if it requires breaking with Israel and joining others in the council in sending a strong message to its key ally to stop its construction of new settlements. U.S. officials were not available for comment, but two Security Council diplomats confirmed the proposal.

To read the complete article in Foreign Policy click here.