Word: pro-israel
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Indeed, Islams voice has been soft in comparison to other religions on the Harvard campus. In the case of last Spring, when violence flared again around Israel, Islams voice and the Arabs voice was literally nonexistent. While a pro-Israel rally was held on the steps of Memorial Church, scores of individuals clad in black and holding signs of Palestinians killed in the recent fighting held a silent vigil directly across from them, on the steps of Widener library...
...wave of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has jolted the complacency of European Jews. In France and Britain, home to Western Europe's two largest Jewish populations, Jewish groups are borrowing tactics used by America's powerful Jewish lobby to persuade their governments to adopt a more pro-Israel stance and to combat what many see as persistent anti-Israel media bias...
...plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, but for the most part Sharon has had a pretty free ride and warm reception. That had certainly raised concern among a lot of Arabs, who had expected a more evenhanded policy from the Bush administration, having seen Clinton as too pro-Israel. But Powell appears to have decided that the situation was threatening to get out of hand. And at some point, to stay in the middle, you have to lean to one side. A previous set of comments on the violence from the Bush administration had criticized both sides...
...makes clear the shortcomings of the American media in reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I have heard both the American Jewish and the American Arab communities complain loudly of the hatefully unfair reporting of The New York Times, CNN and others. Yet if the reporting is so overtly pro-Israel as Doshi describes it, one is hard pressed to understand what the American supporters of Israel are complaining about. If the reality on the ground is really so one-sided, it is a wonder that Jews and supporters of Israel around the world do not hide their heads...
...little uneasy, in light of Burger King's experience in the region last year: The company was forced under threat of a boycott throughout the Islamic world to withdraw its Whoppers from a food court in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, but then found itself denounced by pro-Israel groups...