9 February 2012
Update to Israeli Apartment Week
Laugh at Israeli Apartheid Week
Israeli Apartheid Week is upon us. How fast does a year go? In keeping with Five Minutes for Israel tradition I have stripped their outreach materials bare in lo-res (Internet) and hi-res (printable) versions so Israel advocates that parody and annoy IAW to their hearts’ content.
Action Items:
- Share and distribute this material widely.
- Create your own parodies.
- Photograph your efforts in situ, preferably next to theirs.
- Send me links to your efforts so we can publicise them further.
My hat is off to Elder of Zionfor being so quick of the mark with this. Time to get ready for the annual Israel hatefest “Apartheid Week”
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Hi-res for printing (PDF format) Be patient large (~14MB) files may take a little time to open.
 Parody of the IAW website graphics
7 February 2012
Annual hate-fest is back
The 8th Israel Apartheid Week which I have renamed Israeli Apartment Week as part of my ‘If you can’t beat them, LAUGH AT THEM’policy is scheduled for February-March.
If your Israel Advocacy group isn’t ready – they should start NOW!
Judging by the resource materials the Israel Hatershave stopped pretending that they promote non-violence.
I guess we can forget about any mention of Syrian casualties. Projected Dates (a week can mean anything if facts don’t bother you):Action Items: Start preparing
| Europe |
February 20 – March 10 |
| Palestine |
March 12-19 |
| United States |
February 26 – March 3 |
| Canada |
March 5-9 |
| Arab World |
March 5-11 |
| South Africa |
March 5-11 |
 11 January 2012
ISRAEL: AN INTRODUCTION,
FORTHCOMING JANUARY 24th, 2012
Five Minutes for Israel doesn’t usually do recommendations but knowing the GLORIA Center and without yet reading a word I can definitely say that this will be something that every one serious about the Israel/Palestine/Arab/Muslim/Super Power conflict will want on their shelves or on their hard drive or e-book reader, or whatever. I was going to say every Israel advocate but I confidently predict that if you are not one now you will be (or too nutty to be reached). Knowing Professor Rubin, this will be a good read.
(Herzliya, Israel) – Israel: An Introduction, a project by the Global Research in International Affairs Center (GLORIA), of the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya, and published by Yale University Press will be in stores on January 24th, 2012.
Continue reading Introducing Israel
 2 January 2012
Review Palestine’s admission as a member of UNESCO
SIGN this petition
Nothing is more likely to lead to violence and bring a negotiated settlement even further away than the Palestinian Authority using the ‘authority’ of UNESCO to deny Jewish access to joint holy sites under the excuse that they are protecting them.
Why This Is Important
Palestine’s admission as a member of UNESCO on 31 October 2011 is illegal – since the two-thirds majority of members required to admit Palestine under articles II(2) and II (3) of UNESCO’S Constitution is 129 – not the 107 member States that actually voted for Palestine’s admission.
The decision will cost UNESCO over $100 million per annum in funding and seriously affect UNESCO’s ongoing programs for the universal benefit of humankind.
UNESCO has failed to rebut this claim or accede to my† request that it urgently obtain an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice
† The ‘my’ in this case is not Five Minutes for Israel but the creator of this petition Sydney lawyer, David Singer.
20 December 2011
Remove Syria Now
from Unesco Human Rights Committees
When the campaign reaches 10,000 “Likes,” this will be submitted as a formal petition to UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova.
Action items: Remove Syria Now from Unesco Human Rights Committees
Appeal for UNESCO to Cancel Its Election of Syria to Human Rights Committees
Shocked that the UNESCO Executive Board, on 11 November 2011, elected the Syrian Arab Republic to two committees dealing with human rights—the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations, which examines communications relating to the exercise of human rights, and the Committee on International Non-Governmental Organizations, which is charged with overseeing the work of civil society and human rights groups within UNESCO;
Having considered the recent findings of United Nations Human Rights Council investigators that the Syrian regime has in the past year committed crimes against humanity, including the murder of 5,000 of its citizens, the torturing of children and rape;
Recalling that earlier this year, after United Nations Watch revealed that Syria had cynically submitted its candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, a global protest campaign emerged with the support of Human Rights Watch, the Syrian Human Rights Committee, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and numerous other NGOs and UN stakeholders, helping to successfully defeat the candidacy of the Assad regime;
Guided by the principled opposition expressed by the UNESCO Director-General herself, Ms. Irina Bokova, who has stated that she “does not see how the Syria can contribute to the work of the committees”;
Declaring that each day that the Syria continues to sit on the aforementioned UNESCO human rights committees constitutes an affront to the memory of the innocents who continue to be killed by the Assad regime, and casts a shadow upon the reputation of UNESCO, and of the United Nations system as a whole;
We, the undersigned Members of Parliament, human rights organizations, civil society representatives and pro-democracy dissidents and activists, do hereby appeal to the UNESCO Executive Board to urgently remove the Syrian regime from the aforementioned human rights committees, and to publicly apologize to the victims of the Syrian regime for having elected it in the first place.
19 December 2011
Dry Bones† – Out of the box thinking
We have often stated that the world doesn’t hate Israel. Most of it either doesn’t know we exist or doesn’t care as they have more immediate problems. Yaakov Kirschen, is calling for assistance in approaching 1.3383 Chinese … The Dry Bones Project (DryBonesProject.com) needs funding to carry out its unique strategic plan … a way to use graphic novels to engage and enlist the Chinese in a common struggle; the battle to reject the willful denial of history, and to strengthen China/Israel relations.
If you could be the fairy godfather/mother please contact. If you donate have thousands of dollars lying around but can donate to a unique ‘thinking outside the box’ project in Israel advocacy don’t be shy.
 Dry Bones China Project
† We are honoured that Israel’s iconic cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen of Dry Bones fame permits us to use the cartoons that embellish every Five Minutes for Israel.
  27 November 2011
Like for Israel: <Hackathon>
- What: Bringing developers and designers together to contribute their magic and creating pro Israel mobile and web applications.
- Where: The Junction, 32 Schocken St.,Tel Aviv.
- When: December 2-3,2011
- Who:
Guest Speakers
- Dr. Eitan Eliram, New Media Director Prime Minister’s Office
- Sacha Dratwa,Head of the New Media desk,Spokesperson’s Unit
- Enon Landenberg,Chief Interaction Officer,Publicis Incubator
- Tzvi Kopetz,Chief Operations,Applicasa
- How:More details at Like for Israel: Hackathon
- Why: Oh come-on. You know why!
Like for Israel,a new media initiative that made its first steps in June 2011 is producing a 48hr Hackathon in Tel Aviv. The purpose of this weekend is to build pro-Israel apps formobile devices (iOS,Android),mobile web and browsers (Firefox,Chrome).
The products need to be simple-but-great so they are used by people around the world,to help advocate Israel by making information,tools and ideas accessible to as many people as possible.
- Simple means they need to be ready for launch when the weekend is finished.
- Great means awesome. Read the full guidelines.
- By products we mean iOS and Android apps (mobile and tablet),browser plug-ins,toolbars and web-apps.
- Teams,individuals,ideas:
- Teams: teams will group two programmers and one designer total. The team needs to already knowhow to work with the technologies it’s going to use;there won’t be much time to learn in the weekend.
- Individuals:take into consideration that you won’t be working alone on this unless you’re a magician.
- Ideas: it’d be best if each group comes with a great idea for a product (great+simple). If you don’t have an idea,we’ll team you up with other people with an idea. Think simple,limit your idea to one or two features. We will run elevator pitches in the first morning to get immediate feedback from the otherdevelopers.
- Start cooking your ideas with user workflows,UX,mockup designs etc.
- Contact:Send your ideas to:likeforisrael@gmail.com (#subject:“like for Israel app idea”)
- Production and Media:Niv Calderon nivcalderon@gmail.com, +972-54-6969278
- Tech:Gil Megidish gil.megidish@gmail.com, Adi Avnit adiavn@yahoo.com
Two significant life-changing (?) events for me this week. It’s the 30th anniversary of my aliya to Israel AND my first SMART phone should arrive†. I’m stretching this dubious connection to put in a plug for the Hackathon. Geeks,nerds,activists,mobile developers,you are all invited.
My minor contribution is working on a database for all pro-Israeli blogs! Check it out on Five Minutes for Israel as a table when I’m done. Hopefully,never done –new and previously undiscovered blogs every day.
† Samsung Galaxy SII. Thank you for asking.
 
12 November 2011
France 24 recognises Palestine
France 24 advertises programs to viewers in the Middle East as Palestine Time. Not real states as Israel, Lebanon or Jordan†. Not even the Palestinian Authority. It has taken upon itself to pre-empt the United Nations and recognise Palestine. How many actual viewers it has among Abbas and Haniyah’s unfortunate population is not known but I doubt it’s enough to pander to them.
Five Minutes for Israel has often felt not nearly enough attention is paid to the foreign language (i.e. foreign to the broadcaster) transmissions, particularly on television. There are a number of ‘foreign’ channels broadcasting in English. They also frequently broadcast in other languages, particularly Arabic. Examples are Russia’s RT – Russia Today (see my post We’re back – in the USSR for my thoughts on why we shouldn’t ignore the little ones).
How influential these stations are, given that they fly under the radar of most analysts and critical blogs, can only be guessed. Given that France 24 is known for the hottest news readers the numbers could be much higher than we think.
Action item: France 24 doesn’t have a complaint department (if you know of one please contact me and I’ll revise the details.
Contact them at:
FRANCE 24
5, rue des Nations Unies
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux France
Tel. : + 33 1 73 01 24 24
Fax : + 33 1 73 01 24 56
Mail : webdesk@france24.com
† Nor Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey or the United Arab Emirates which are at least real states.
10 November 2011
Katsav sentenced to 7 years
In Israel no one is above the law.
Supreme Court: Former president Katsav raped Aleph
About the only response we can and should make to this disgrace is to comment that in Israel no one is above the law.
Action items:
- Israel court upholds ex-president’s rape conviction, Reuters, 10 Nov 2011
- Israeli Supreme Court upholds 7-year-sentence for ex-President Katsav on rape conviction, Associated Press, Washington Post, 10 Nov 2011
- Israel top court rejects ex-president’s appeal, AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press, Seattle PI, 10 Nov 2011
- Israel court upholds Katsav’s rape conviction: media, The Daily Star, Lebanon, 10 Nov 2011
- Israeli Supreme Court upholds 7-year-sentence for ex-President Katsav on rape conviction, NewsOK, 10 Nov 2011
- Ex-Israeli president to serve 7 years for rape, AMY TEIBEL; ASSOCIATED PRESS, News Tribune, 10 Nov 2011
- Supreme Court: Former president Katsav raped Aleph, JOANNA PARASZCZUK AND JPOST.COM STAFF, Jerusalem Post, 10 Nov 2011
- Court: Katsav’s rape conviction stands, Aviad Glickman, Y net, 10 Nov 2011
6 November 2011
Not even a bandaid
Who says the Destroy Israel Lobby don’t learn? They learnt with the Mavi Marmara that aid boats don’t actually have to carry any aid but Israel will still be blamed for stopping humanitarian aid reaching Gaza
‘No humanitarian aid found onboard Gaza flotilla’
Action item: When any mention is made of Israel stopping two flotilla ships comment that the ships were purely for propaganda. They were carrying no aid not even a a bandaid. Link to the above article.
- Quilcene resident aboard Gaza-bound ship intercepted by Israel, Web reporter and Allyn Fisher-Ilan Q13 FOX News Online and Reuters, My Fox Spokane, 5 Nov 2011
- Israel Begins Deportation of Gaza Flotilla Activists, Voice of America, 5 Nov 2011
- Israel: Flotilla Challenges Gaza Blockade, Huffington Post, 5 Nov 2011
- Freedom Waves to Gaza Boarded by Israeli Military, Salem-News.com, 5 Nov 2011
- Israeli Forces Commandeer Gaza Boats, Kansas City InfoZine, 5 Nov 2011
- Crew of MV Saoirse Hope to Return to Ireland, 98FM, 5 Nov 2011
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