We continue to examine the lies collated by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre that are commonly presented by Israel’s opponents.
Lie # 8
Israeli policies are the cause of worldwide anti-Semitism. Simon Wiesenthal Centre response
From the Inquisition to the pogroms to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by th…
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Although Jews living in Europe today appear to be successful and secure, there is nevertheless an underlying sense of unease. Anti-Semitism is growing. A survey recently commissioned by the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has found that Jews have experienced anti-S…
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Sixty years after the foundation of the State, Israel still identifies its citizens in terms of their country of origin or ethnic affiliation, but not as ‘Israelis’. Passports, identification cards and other official documents in Israel, identify citizens as ‘Spanish’, ‘French’, etc, but…
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Documents recently released by the British National Archives have revealed the extent of debate among British diplomats over the fate of “Jewish refugees fleeing the ashes of post-war Germany” (‘Documents reveal historic debate over Jewish refugees,’ Israel National News, 14 May 2008 http://…
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The inscription from the tunnel king Hezekiah dug to secure the water supply of Jerusalem during the siege of the Assyrians is to be loaned to Israel by the Turkish government (“Hezekiah Inscription to return to Israel”, Jay Bushinsky, Washington Times, 5 September 2007, http://washingtontimes.c…
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In Deuteronomy the land of Israel is described as “a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (8:7), which “drinketh water of the rain of heaven” (11:11). Today, however, Israel’s natural water sources are no longer able to meet the increasing …
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While we see modern Israel as a token of the coming Kingdom of God and a sign of Christ’s return, the Jewish state is really no different from any other contemporary country. Israel is a modern, progressive nation, interested in the development of its resources and the well-being and p…
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Jews from India, who believe that they are one of the ten so-called lost tribes of Israel, have settled at Kiryat Arba near Hebron, reports the BBC News’ Jerusalem Diary[1]. The Hebron region is, of course, in the territory occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six Day War and therefore a controversia…
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Israel’s first large-scale sea wave power plant has been built on the Jaffa port’s breakwater near Tel Aviv (Honey Garcia, “Wave power unit installed in Israel’s Jaffa port”, EcoSeed (29 July 2010)[1]). Constructed by Tel Aviv-based SDE Energy Limited, the wave power plant is an initial st…
According to Dr Avi Shapira, the chairman of Israel’s inter-ministry steering committee for earthquake preparedness, a strong earthquake can be expected in Israel within the next fifty years, reports Amiram Cohen (“Before the next big shake-up”, Haaretz.com, 17 December, 2010[1]). “Israel is…
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