Curated Israel Readings: Cyberwar, Missiles, BDS

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling

Center for Israel Education

Our friends at the Center for Israel Education (www.israeled.org) have complied a list of recent articles about Israel worth reading from all over the world:

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• Yaakov Amidror, “Cyberspace, the Final Frontier,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Aug. 30, besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/cyberspace-final-frontier.
• Alan Baker, “Ten False Assumptions Regarding Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Aug. 15, jcpa.org/article/ten-false-assumptions-regarding-israel.
• Peter Beaumont, “Gaza Becomes Social Media Warzone Ahead of Palestinian Elections,” The Guardian, Aug. 24, www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/gaza-becomes-social-media-warzone-ahead-palestinian-elections.
• Coral Braun, “Israeli Directors Win MTV Award for Coldplay’s ‘Up&Up’ music video,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 29, www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-directing-pair-wins-MTV-award-for-Coldplay-music-video-466309.
• Hannah Brown, “Israeli Movies Abound at This Year’s Toronto Film Festival,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 21, www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-movies-abound-at-this-years-Toronto-Film-Festival-464687.
• Niv Elis, “Israeli-Chinese Hardware Incubator Launches in Tel Aviv,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 30, www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Israeli-Chinese-hardware-incubator-launches-in-Tel-Aviv-466382.
• Matti Friedman, “The Ideological Roots of Media Bias Against Israel,” Fathom, January 2015, fathomjournal.org/the-ideological-roots-of-media-bias-against-israel.
• Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli Lab Proves Stephen Hawking’s Theory,” Israel21c, Aug. 18, www.israel21c.org/israeli-lab-proves-stephen-hawkings-theory.
• Tal Kra-Oz, “Shai Tsbari Storms the Heavens, From Bat Yam to New York,” Tablet, Aug. 22, www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/211136/shai-tsabari-storms-the-heavens.
• Arye Mekel, “Turkey, the Refugee Crisis and Brexit: Concerns and Opportunities for Greece,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Aug. 12, besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-the-refugee-crisis-and-brexit-concerns-and-opportunities-for-greece.
• Mazal Mualem, “Why the Sabbath Crisis Didn’t Topple Netanyahu’s Government,” Al-Monitor, August 2016, www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/israel-third-sabbath-coalition-crisis-netanyahu-katz.html.
• Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe, “The Anti-Israel Movement’s ‘Anti-Normalization’ Campaign,” National Post, Aug. 3, www.romirowsky.com/19081/israel-anti-normalization.
• Max Singer, “The New Threat of Very Accurate Missiles,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Aug. 9, besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/new-threat-accurate-missiles.
• Joseph S. Spoerl, “Whitewashing Palestine to Eliminate Israel: The Case of the One-State Advocates,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 12, jcpa.org/article/whitewashing-palestine-eliminate-israel-case-one-state-advocates.
• Benjamin Weinthal, “In Germany, Israelis Help to Launch Anti-BDS Group,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Aug. 27, www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-in-germany-israelis-help-to-launch-anti-bds-group.
• Michael Yudkin, “Lies, Damned Lies and the Academic Boycott of Israel,” Fathom, Spring 2016, fathomjournal.org/lies-damned-lies-and-the-academic-boycott-of-israel.