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Friday, February 12, 2010

Think tank: Israel faces global delegitimization campaign

Ha'aretz
Israel is facing a global campaign of delegitimization, according to a report by the Reut Institute, made available to the cabinet on Thursday. The Tel Aviv-based security and socioeconomic think tank called on ministers to treat the matter as a strategic threat. 

...Reut lists the network's major hubs - London, Brussels, Madrid, Toronto, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley....

...The delegitimization network sees the fight against the former regime in South Africa as a success model. It believes that like the apartheid regime, the Zionist-Israeli model can be toppled and a one-state model can be established... 

.......... [Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador in London] has told his people to increase their campus activity.

"What is now happening in London universities will happen, at most, in five years at all the large universities in the United States," he says. 


...Reut recommends setting up a counter-network, in which Israel's embassies ... would serve as "front positions."

The report says the intelligence service should monitor the organizations' activities and study their methods....  Full story