Broader View: Israel Resource Center

New on Broader View: January 2016

• BDS: A Threat To Us All, Not Just Israel by Adam Milstein, Huffington Post, January 1
• Gaza: How to Spot a Fake Siege by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 25
• Law & Lawfare: Double Standards in the Territories by Alan Baker, JCPA, January 21
• Palestinians: Is Abbas Losing Control? by Khaled Abu Toameh, January 26
• Public Diplomacy: Tell Better Stories by Alexandra Markus, Algemeiner, January 3
• Terrorism: Man’s Search for Meaning by Stuart Chesner, Times of Israel, January 26

In the News

• Israeli Arab kills 2 at Tel Aviv pub; shooter killed after week-long manhunt
• Dafna Meir (39), nurse and mother of six, stabbed to death in her home, allegedly by  Palestinian teen motivated by Palestinian TV incitement; Shlomit Krigman (23) killed in separate stabbing attack
• U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, accuses Israel of having a “double legal standard” in the West Bank; after outcry, he apologizes for the timing of his remarks.
• U.S., UK spied on Israeli Air Force
• Historians’ academic association, New York and Florida senates, a Spanish court, Univ. of Waterloo students, and the World Medical Association reject Israel boycott; Methodist Church divests from 5 Israeli banks.
• Israel designates as “state land” large tract near Jericho
• Israel strengthens ties with China, India, Hong Kong, Colombia, Indonesia, Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Ukraine, Islamic Republic of Gambia, and potentially even Sudan
• Israeli venture capital firms raised over $1 billion in 2015; 104 companies were acquired or went public, returning over $9B to the firms and their investors
• Israelis win international awards and honors for iPhone apps, consumer electronics, recipes, “Most Powerful Countries,” “Best Hotels” and “Best Cities of the World.”
• Recent visitors to Israel include India’s foreign minister, Ukrainian president, Albanian prime minister, 8 U.S. Senators and 4 Representatives, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Texas governor, 200 emergency-medicine professionals, thousands of cyber experts, international chamber music ensembles, food bloggers, and Muslim-American “viral Zionist” Farhana Rahman.