News from and about Israel. February 17

Campus activists across America are staging Israel Peace Week in an effort to combat the annual festival of anti-Israel vitriol. Rutgers Hillel gets a good word from Hasbara Fellowship.

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Last week, Tzvi Raviv, Director of Rutgers Hillel Center for Israel Engagement, published an article about the need to focus our resources disproportionately on the campus-hubs for anti-Israel activity. Stephen Kuperberg, Executive director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, responded to Tzvi's article. 

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The Israeli people sent some 130 mobile housing to Turkey. This will now house 800 students in Van district which was ravaged by earthquake last October.

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The David Project covers the Talk Israel weekend retreat. Rutgers students and Rutgers Hillel Center for Israel Engagement staff will join students from across New Jersey in a weekend of Israel advocacy, fun and networking.

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Norman Finkelstein, the guru of the anti-Israel movement, goes against the hypocrisy of anti-Israel activists.

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Finally, a nice video from AISH.