israeli apartheid

NYC LGBT Leader Screws BDS Movement. LMAO

February 23rd, 2011

The weird alliance between the anti-Israel Boycott-Divest-Sanction crowd and certain members of the LGBT community just got f*cked hard by New York-based gay adult-film producer Michael Lucas:

Lucas emerged victorious in a battle with Manhattan’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center over its support for an “anti-Semitic” group.

On Tuesday morning, Lucas — ne Andrei Bregman — issued a press release calling for a boycott of the Center over its hosting “a party by Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), scheduled for March 5th.”

Lucas went on the attack. “I’m preparing to organize a boycott that would certainly involve some of the Center’s most generous donors,” he said in the release. “It was an inexcusable decision on the Center’s part to associate itself with a hate group like Israeli Apartheid Week.”

Less than eight hours after Lucas drew his line in the sand, the Center relented. “We prevailed!” Lucas crowed in an e-mail to supporters at 8:34pm. “According to an e-mail I just received personally from Glennda Testone, executive director of New York’s LGBT Center, it has been determined that ‘this event is not appropriate to be held at
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Israel Through (Genuinely) Liberal Eyes. Part 1

August 10th, 2010

The Propagandist is proud to welcome Ben Cohen, editor of the AJC's Z-Word Blog, to the growing ranks of our contributing writers.

Cohen’s ambitious four-part series examines the philosophy and motivations behind international delegitimization campaigns against the state of Israel. His starting point is a sympathetic critique of Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony’s essay, Israel Through European Eyes.

We are in this thing for the long haul.

By this thing, I mean the tripartite assault upon Israel emanating from "the media... the campuses and in the corridors of power - a smear campaign of a kind that no other nation on earth is subjected to on a regular basis," as Yoram Hazony puts it.

Hazony makes this claim in "Israel Through European Eyes". In this popular essay, the Israeli scholar launches an enquiry into why this smear campaign is happening and what might be done to confront it.

Hazony's explanation of the intellectual origins of Israel's current, woeful predicament robustly counters the typical platitudes one encounters in discussions of how Israel should respond.

"Change your policy," insists the...More >>