Posts Tagged: Breaking the Silence
American Jews ‘Dismayed’ by Israel
Of the writing of books critical of Israel by American Jews, invariably liberals, there is no end. All that has changed is that women have...
StandWithUs Counters Breaking the Silence Billboard Targeting Eurovision Tourists
The Israel education and advocacy group StandWithUs said it was placing a billboard advertisement on a main Israeli highway to counter another erected by the group...
The Well-Financed War on Birthright Israel
JNS.org - The war on Birthright continues. IfNotNow protested outside of Birthright’s New York City headquarters on April 5, demanding that Birthright make institutional changes to its programming. These events follow weeks of...
Swiss Ambassador Issues Lukewarm Apology to Hebron Jews After Activist Slaps Child
JNS.org - Switzerland’s ambassador issued a half-hearted apology to the Jewish community of Hebron in Judea on Friday, two days after a Swiss man from a...
Bashing Israel Is a Big (State-Sponsored) Business
A recent report by NGO Monitor revealed that between 2012 and 2016, 39 Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) received NIS 515.8 million ($142.6 million) from foreign donors. Just over 60%...
Roger Cohen’s Shame
A distinguishing trait of New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, as it was for his predecessor Anthony Lewis, is Jewish shame. Lewis frequently lamented that...
Why Does Europe Support Breaking the Silence’s Radical Anti-Israel Agenda?
JNS.org - Last week, the Israeli State Attorney’s office closed its investigation into Breaking the Silence’s (BtS) spokesperson. The official determination that the BtS official had...
Israeli Education Minister Bans Anti-IDF Group Breaking the Silence From Schools
JNS.org – Representatives of Breaking the Silence -- an NGO that publicizes testimonies of former IDF soldiers in order to spread criticism of the Israeli military...
Pro-Israel Advocacy Group Kicks Off College Speaking Tour to Oppose Breaking the Silence
JNS.org - Reservists on Duty (RoD), a pro-Israel organization founded to combat antisemitism on college campuses and elsewhere, will begin a two-week speaking tour called “Arabs...
Why Doesn’t ‘Breaking the Silence’ Fear Palestinian Terrorism?
The anti-Israel organization Breaking the Silence (BtS) offers two tours, where its members routinely lie about alleged Israeli and IDF war crimes. One of the tours...
Donations to Controversial New Israel Fund Plummet by $6 Million in 2016
JNS.org – Donations to the controversial New Israel Fund (NIF), which has been accused of supporting anti-Israel groups, have dropped nearly 20 percent in 2016, according...
Anti-IDF Group Breaking the Silence Faces Wave of Event Cancellations in Israel
JNS.org - An event featuring Breaking the Silence, an organization that promotes criticism of the IDF, was canceled at Kibbutz Neve Ur in northern Israel Monday...
Creative Writing: Breaking the Silence’s Book Project
Kingdom of Olives and Ash, edited by fiction writers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman and prepared in cooperation with the highly controversial (understatement) Israeli NGO “Breaking...
The Truth About Breaking the Silence
Whenever someone tells me that they want to improve Israeli society, I’m all for it. I get excited about helping the Jewish state better itself. There’s...
