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Defining Delegitimization: My Response to Naomi Klein

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Several weeks ago I was interviewed on the CBC’s morning radio show about the danger of the trend to delegitimize Israel. In this context I was asked to refer to Toronto, in which we at Reut believe there is turbulent anti-Israel activity that stretches far beyond legitimate criticism of Israeli policy. Among a few other things, I [...]

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Israel Apartheid Week: The Strategy of the Delegitimizers

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , on March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

An article by one of the organizers of Israel Apartheid Week in Toronto University sheds light on the coordinated and broad attack being waged against Israel, and reflects one of the strategies behind the movement’s growth – forming wide alliances with progressive organizations by framing the Palestinian struggle in the context of anti-racist and anti-colonialist [...]

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Israel Apartheid Week: Delegitimization not Criticism

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today signals the launch of the Sixth International Israeli Apartheid Week, which is due to take place in over 40 cities across the globe. While the organizers contend that the events do not constitute delegitimization, anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism, many thinkers believe that referring to Israel as an apartheid regime is a central aspect of demonization [...]

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FAQs: Reut report on Israel’s delegitimization

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Reut Institute’s paper on Israel’s delegitimization challenge has generated widespread reaction to an issue traditionally insufficiently featured on the agenda of decision makers and in public discourse.
Much of the response to the report has taken place in international media, despite the fact that the report has yet to be translated into English. It follows [...]

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Reut Launches Comprehensive Report on Israel’s International Delegitimization

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Reut Institute’s political-security team launched Version A of its report analyzing the dynamics of a global campaign to delegitimize Israel and offering comprehensive principles to respond to the global threat.
The report is the culmination of a year-long knowledge-development process that began with assessing the changing reality and contrasting it with the prevalent mindset of [...]

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ReView: Eroding Israel’s Legitimacy in the International Arena

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , , , on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Reut ReViews map a collection of events that constitute a trend, which may render an element of a policy of the governmen t irrelevant.
Israel is facing a dramatic assault on the very legitimacy of its existence as a Jewish and democratic state. The groups promoting this delegitimacy aim to isolate Israel and ultimately turn it [...]

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Gidi Grinstein in Haaretz: Israel delegitimizers threaten its existence

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on January 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Writing in Haaretz, Reut Institute Founder and President Gidi Grinstein describes an “unholy alliance” aiming to turn Israel into a pariah state and recommends a comprehensive policy approach to address the challenge:

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Branding Israel on campus

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Promoting Israel studies on campus and ‘branding Israel’—a strategy aimed at associating Israel with positive characteristics unrelated to the Arab-Israeli conflict—are central to improving Israel’s international standing and countering delegitimacy.

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Reut and Fundamental Delegitimacy in the Media

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In the past couple of weeks, several articles have been published which discuss Reut’s current project on identifying the threat of fundamental delegitimacy against Israel and creating a conceptual framework to deal with it.

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Strange Bedfellows? LSE Twins with a Hamas affiliated institution

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The London School of Economics (LSE) students union voted in November in favor of twinning with the Islamic university of Gaza.  This recent decision provides more evidence of the increasing radicalization of the liberal mainstream in Britain, and the growing trend within its ranks of supporting elements that are directly affiliated with Hamas.

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