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Alan Baker

Amb. Alan Baker is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

Every state has the sole right to determine who is entitled to enter its territory and to set immigration quotas based on security, public interest and other relevant considerations.
Despite any honest and noble intentions that you may have, and whether you intend it or not, you are unavoidably labeling yourselves as an openly anti-Israel company.
Reopening the former consulate in Jerusalem is politically and legally problematic in light of the new legal situation created by the formal acceptance by the U.S. in 2017 of Israel’s sovereignty in the city.
The unique challenges Israel faces, when accompanied by an inherent lack of fairness and integrity in global media coverage, has serious implications for the Jewish state.
It is incumbent upon the international community and the United Nations to respond with commensurate measures to Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor’s claim that Israel has committed a war crime by “facilitating the transfer of Israeli civilians into the West Bank since June 13, 2014” fails to meet central criteria set out in the court’s statute, for gravity, relevance and seriousness.
The term has become a useful slogan, a political declaration by leaders in the international community, and is often mere lip-service.
The current wave of criticism and hostility against the Jewish state is based on patently false claims and has the nature of a literal blood libel.
The “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization is actively working to undermine the interests, legitimacy, security and international standing of the Jewish state, as well as its democratically elected government.
BtS’s adoption of extreme political and ideological anti-Israel bias and abandonment of legal or historic substantiation undermine any credibility it or its founders might once have had.
Belgium is encouraging the Palestinian leadership to undermine the Oslo Accords and violate international agreements.
As the tragic realities of years gone by are being replaced by a new Middle East, it is high time for the United Nations to seriously review its annual Israel-bashing parade.