The Confronting Anti-Semitism workshop provides students with the tools and builds skills to confront anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist incidents on campus, including harassment, political protests/demonstrations, speakers, divestment campaigns, inside and outside the classroom. In working to create a more respectful and inclusive environment on campus, it also focuses on building coalitions with student organizations, enlisting the support of faculty, administrators and national organizations.

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Free Chop Chop (Kosher Chinese) will be provided for the first 15 people to sign up on the link above. There will also be snacks/refreshments for everyone else.

Courtesy: TOV! Taalservice

How would you feel if 8,000 rockets have been aimed at your town?

What if these rockets killed your friends and family?

Do you think you have the right to defend yourself?

Come and hear Noam Bedein, the director of Sderot Media Center, speak about daily life in Sderot, a town in Israel that has suffered OVER 8,000 ROCKET ATTACKS from Gaza by Hamas for the past eight years. Listen to the stories of human suffering at the hands of terrorism. Understand both Israel’s need and right to defend itself.

Co-sponsored by LionPAC and CAMERA.

Noam Bedein directs the Sderot Media Center, founded three years ago. Noam, a native of Tzfat, grew up in Efrat, Israel. Mr. Bedein served for three years as an IDF sergeant for an artillery scout unit along the Lebanese border. After the army, Noam served as an emissary for The Jewish Agency in Boston, and then traveled to the Far East for a year.

Upon his return to Israel, Mr. Bedein relocated to Sderot and pioneered the “Sderot Media Center for the Western Negev Ltd”, which has spawned the Sderot Media Center. In this position, Noam provides briefings in Sderot and the Western Negev for foreign diplomats, government officials, student groups, and other visiting organizations from all over the world. Mr. Bedein has helped produce a segment for EuroNews, a major European broadcasting outlet with over 200 million viewers, and was twice featured in a weekend edition articles in The Sunday Times Magazine of London. In early January 2008, Mr. Bedein assisted the bureau chief of the New York Times, Steve Erlanger, who wrote a front page feature for the New York Times about the situation in Sderot.

Mr. Bedein has appeared on numerous US and Israeli radio and television stations, and has been published in the Jerusalem Post, IsraelInsider Magazine, NFC and Israel National News. He has lectured about Sderot on countless college campuses and communities across the US, England, Canada and Norway. Recently, Mr. Bedein briefed congressmen and their staffers at Capitol Hill on the rocket situation in southern Israel, in a meeting organized by EMET.

Courtesy: AIPAC

LionPAC recently launched our AIPAC Policy Conference Scholarship Fund in order to offset the cost of sending YOU to AIPAC’s Policy Conference.  Policy Conference is the largest gathering of pro-Israel leaders in the country, bringing together policy makers (including more than half of the Senate and a third of the House of Representatives to name a few), community and student leaders, and more. Past speakers include Benjamin Netanyahu, Michael Oren, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, and many more world leaders and experts. Prime Minister Netanyahu is already confirmed to speak at this year’s Policy Conference. The dates of this year’s Policy Conference is May 22-24 in Washington, D.C. For more information on the conference please see: http://www.aipac.org/pc/

To apply for subsidization you must apply here: http://bit.ly/PCSFApplication. All students will be eligible to apply and no prioritization will be given to LionPAC board members, our friends, etc. Therefore, I’d really like to encourage everyone to apply.

The deadline for applications is this Friday, March 18. If you have any questions at all please don’t hesitate to email lionpac@hillel.columbia.edu.

Check out some pictures taken during Israel Apartheid Week and Hillel’s “Separating Fact From Apartheid” campaign!

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“Egypt is free!” shouted thousands of elated protesters, who took the streets of Cairo upon hearing that President Hosni Mubarak had resigned after 30 years of rule. Protesters hope that Mubarak’s resignation will pave the way to making Egypt into a true democracy.

Will Egypt succeed? The Egyptian military council presently has control over Egypt, and, along with Israel, Egypt has affirmed its support for the Israel-Egyptian peace. However, when the military steps down, who will fill the power void? Moreover, what does this mean for Israel, whose peace with Egypt for the last 30 years was dependent upon Mubarak’s support?

Political pundit Jonathan Schanzer sees three possible outcomes for Egypt’s government: a new dictatorship, the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, or a successful democracy.

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