Tuesday, October 9, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NGOs and Birthright Unplugged: Plugging into anti-Israel campaigning - 'Birthright Unplugged--partnered with a number of radical NGOs, some of which receive EU funding-- advances an extreme anti-Israel narrative via its “alternative†tours. The groups meet with officials from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), ICHAD, and Allegra Pacheco from UN OCHA; and receive materials from the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, and Badil. The goal is to deny the legitimacy of Israel and of “the concept of a birthright for Jewish people in this land that Palestinians were displaced from." On this basis, Birthright Unplugged prepares the small number of participants as “Palestinian solidarity†activists and to promote boycotts and demonization in the media, universities and other venues...'
