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Articles
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Israel’s Image
New perspectives through Arab Eyes
By David E. Kaplan
With an eye out to what Arab journalists in the Middle East are writing about Israel, this writer’s antennae picked up refreshing ‘signals’ in an illuminating piece by veteran Kuwaiti journalist that reveals a changing narrative of the Jewish state’s place in the region.
Israel’s Image
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South African Government Boycotts Miss South Africa
Boycotting its own Miss Universe contestant because host country is Israel
By Rolene Marks
Endowed with beauty and brains, law-degree graduate and South Africa’s entry to the Miss Universe pageant to be held next month in Israel is not sitting well with her ANC government. Instead of trying run the country effectively – starting with providing basic electricity – South Africa’s ‘bright sparks’ prefers to ruin a beauty queen’s future because of its misguided perspective of the Jewish state.
South African Government Boycotts Miss South Africa
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Shades of Shylock
Attack on Israel’s Ambassador at London university exposes imbedded British antisemitism
Written by Lay of the Land UK correspondent
The complex character of Shylock crafted in Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ pervades the British perception of its Jews. After a millennium of demonising Jews as “money-grabbing, murderous and world-domineering”, there remains in British society, a persistence to silence their voice as tried at London university on Israel’s Ambassador to the UK.
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