It's Israel Apartheid Week again on college campuses around the world. The blatant and biased agenda for this series of events that kicked off March 1 continues its attempts to delegitimize Israel through a proposed package of crippling boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
Where will it end? And what can we, as English speakers in Israel, do to stop this increasingly troubling international phenomenon?
Former Canadian Justice Minister and international human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler spoke last week in Israel at a briefing for members of Hadar-Israel, a new grassroots organization that aims to provide the tens of thousands of people who have made aliya from English-speaking countries the information and tools we need to fulfill our Zionist aspirations.
Hadar-Israel has now published an exclusive video of Professor Cotler explaining how the "real" apartheid starts with the rejection of the legitimacy of a Jewish state and ends ultimately with the notion of a Middle East without Israel.
If you are concerned about Israel's future, now is the time to act. Please watch the video, then forward this email to a friend. We must counteract the lies that are hijacking the human rights agenda and labeling Israel as an international outlaw.
To view this critical video, please click here.
Professor Cotler spoke on February 24 at a packed Hadar forum on Lawfare: Fighting False Legal Actions that Demonize Israel. He was joined on stage at the Begin Center in Jerusalem by IDF Lieutenant Colonel (res.) David Benjamin and D.J Schneeweiss, Israel's coordinator of anti-boycott strategy in Europe. The presentation was moderated by David Horovitz, Editor of the Jerusalem Post.
All three speakers agreed that groups like Hadar-Israel, which mobilize "citizen engagement," are of vital importance in "delegitimizing the delegitimizers." As one of the speakers at the Hadar-Israel evening so eloquently put it: "Israel needs to change the rules of the game and apply a 'full court press' in challenging delegitimization."
