Myths & Facts: Exclusive Videos

AICE Executive Director Dr. Mitchell Bard discusses the major issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict

Delegitimization **NEW**

• Campus Delegitimization of Israel is Successful

1948 & Israeli Independence

• Jews have no claim to Israel
• Palestine was always an Arab land
• The partition plan gave the Jews most of the land, and all of the cultivable area
• Israel usurped all of Palestine in 1948
• The Jews started the first war with the Arabs
• The Jews had no intention of living peacefully with their Arab neighbors
• Zionism is racism

United Nations

• The United Nations unjustly partitioned Palestine
• Resolution 242 clearly requires Israel to return to its pre-1967 boundaries
• Resolution 242 recognizes a Palestinian right to self-determination
• U.N. Resolutions call for Israel to repatriate all Palestinian Refugees
• Israel's annexation of Jerusalem violates U.N. Resolution 242

Jerusalem

• Israel attacked Jordan to capture Jerusalem
• Jerusalem is an Arab city
• Under Israeli rule, religious freedom has been curbed in Jerusalem
• Jerusalem should be the capital of a Palestinian state

1967 Six Day War

• After the 1967 war, Israel refused to negotiate a settlement with the Arabs

Peace Process

• Syria is willing to trade land for peace
• Arabs cannot be anti-Semitic because they themselves are Semites
• Israel's treatment of Palestinians is similar to the treatment of Blacks in Apartheid South Africa
• Israel discriminates against its Arab citizens
• The Palestinian question is the core of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Right of Return is a pre-requisite for final settlement
• Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal
• Israeli and Palestinian peace agreements prohibit settlements

Terrorism

• Violence is an understandable and legitimate response to Israel's policies
• America's support of Israel is the reason it was attacked on September 11th, 2001
• Groups like Hezbollah and Hamas should be excluded from the U.S. war on terrorism because they are freedom fighters and not terrorists
• Palestinians are driven to terror by desperation
• The Palestinians educate their children about co-existence with Israel
• A Palestinian state will pose no danger to the State of Israel.