Tag Archives: Im Tirtzu

Press Release New EU Project Invites Photographers to “Occupied Palestinian Territory” A new project by the European Union offers European photographers an all-expenses-paid trip to “occupied Palestinian territory” in order to “tour areas across the West Bank to capture different aspects of Palestinian life.” “Do you want to be part …

Press Release Left-Wing Activist Detained Overnight by Police Left-wing activist and former head of “Rabbis for Human Rights,” Arik Ascherman, was detained overnight by the police last Thursday after refusing to agree to the terms of a police-sanctioned restraining order against him. Ascherman was issued a 15-day restraining order following …

Press Release Report: New Bezalel Academy Institute “Hotbed for Anti-Zionism” A new government-funded institute in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is a hotbed for anti-Zionism, charges a new report by the pro-Israel watchdog Im Tirtzu. The report examines a year since the founding of Bezalel Academy’s “Institute for …

Im Tirtzu Press Release. In Ramallah Speech, Israeli Prof. Accuses Israel of Robbery, Violence and Oppression. “Robbery, violence and oppression have become the norm” in Israel, said Israeli professor Dr. Yaela Raanan this past Thursday during a speech in Ramallah. Raanan, who teachers in Sderot’s Sapir College, was one of …

Press Release. Bereaved Families Protest Against EU: Your Money Is Murdering Our Children A group of bereaved families staged a protest today (Sunday) against the European Union over its funding of Israeli NGOs that defend terrorists and their families in Israeli courts. Families from the Choosing Life Forum of Bereaved …

Press Release: Fox News Reporter in Gaza: Amnesty International Lied About Israeli Rocket Attack. Amnesty International lied yesterday (Tuesday) when it accused Israel of violating international law for bombing the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights building in Gaza, said Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. Yingst, reporting from Gaza, …

Press Release In Response to Rocket Fire, Pro-Israel Group Im Tirtzu Launches Campaign: “The People Demand Victory“ In response to the recent escalation in southern Israel, the pro-Israel organization Im Tirtzu has launched a new campaign calling for victory over Hamas. The campaign, titled “The People Demand Victory,” is calling …

Dozens of demonstrators gathered today outside the Haifa Magistrate’s Court to protest the sentence handed to terrorist Amjad Jabareen, an Arab-Israeli accomplice to the 2017 terror attack on the Temple Mount. Jabareen was sentenced by the court to 16 years in prison for serving as an accomplice to the terrorists …

Press Release. Professor Eyal Sivan, a lecturer in Sapir College’s graduate program for film making, signed an open letter last week calling to boycott the international Berlin Pop-Kultur Festival due to its sponsorship by the Israeli embassy. The festival, to be held from August 21 to August 23 in Berlin, …

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court rejected a restraining order request filed by far-left activist Guy Hirschfeld against the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu who has been filming Hirschfeld’s interactions with IDF soldiers. Hirschfeld, a vocal member of the far-left organization Ta’ayush, frequently films and harasses IDF soldiers and Jewish residents living in …

Al Jazeera has recently taken aim at Im Tirtzu and published a feature article on our “Know Your Professor” website, which exposed dozens of radical Israeli academics who are engaged in promoting boycotts and defaming Israel. Im Tirtzu says “It seems that the propaganda arm of Qatar is not so …

Press Release Arab MK Urges Boycott of Israel at Pro-BDS Conference in London Member of Knesset Yousef Jabareen (Hadash-Ta’al) publicly called to boycott Israel in a speech he gave over the weekend at a pro-BDS conference in London, Kan news reported. “The international community has all the tools to deal …

These students are turning into some of Israel’s best ambassadors in one of the largest and most influential countries in the world.’ ========= This week, dozens of visiting Chinese students marked the end of the largest extra-curricular academic program for visiting Chinese students in Israel. The program, run by the …

It was supposed to be just a quiet getaway. For our anniversary, my wife and I decided to spend Shabbat at the Ein Gedi guesthouse, a place we have visited many times before.  Waiting for Kabbalat Shabbat services to begin, I struck up a conversation with a retired French industrialist …

Press release – Two hundred and forty Israeli and Jewish Academics Urge German Government To Reject “BDS is antisemitism” Law   Two hundred and forty Israeli and Jewish academics sent a letter to the German government urging them to reject its recently passed “BDS is antisemitism” law. In an open …

If professors in their classrooms were spewing a doctrine of white supremacy, black inferiority, or inherent Arab villainy, how do you think this would be received?  Would they be ignored because, after all, there is, thankfully, academic freedom in the West? Or would there be an outcry against their points …

Watch our latest video (in English) about the Jewish People’s rights to the Land of Israel! Promoting Israel’s Legal Rights. The video was created within the framework of a joint initiative between Im Tirtzu and Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights to educate the Israeli public about the legal rights of …

I was contacted today by a representative of Im Tirtzu advising me, and asking me to share with the community and readers, the  initiative that Im Tirtzu are doing ahead of Tu Bshvat (on January 21) in the event that it might be of interest. Tu Bshvat is the ‘New …

Im Tirtzu Press release: Jerusalem’s Chief Rabbi: Israel Has Obligation to Help Free Palestinians Imprisoned for Selling Land to Jews The Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Jerusalem, Aryeh Stern, issued an unprecedented halachic ruling that Israel has an obligation to help free Palestinians who have been imprisoned for selling land to …

Last week, the nation of Israel came together to mourn the loss of Amiad Yisrael, the three-day-old infant murdered in the terrorist attack near the community of Ofra. Amiad Yisrael z’l was delivered via an emergency C-section, after his mother Shira, 30 weeks pregnant, was badly wounded during the attack. …