Northern Ireland Friends of Israel states that The Belfast Festival at Queen’s has a poor record of staging balanced events on the Middle East.
In recent years guest speakers have included arch critics of Israel such as Robert Fisk; Noam Chomsky and George Galloway - all without reply.
This year's festival was to be no exception, with two critics billed to take part in a very one-sided "conversation" on Conflict in the Middle East, at the Crescent Arts Centre, on Oct 18.
NIFI raised this with the Festival organisers and, as a result of its intervention, a late invite has been extended to Jewish Chronicle columnist, Professor Geoffrey Alderman, to join the panel. The event is already a sell out.
INIFI ‘s statement continues: “If putting Israel's case reasonably and fairly to the people of Northern Ireland is important to you, then please support NIFI by:
“Visiting our website www.nifi.org.uk - we regularly post new stories about Israel events in Northern Ireland;
“Forwarding this message to friends and colleagues who might be interested and asking them if they would like to sign up to our ever growing circulation list;
“Contacting the organisation at nifriendsofisrael@ymail.com with your news and ideas.” Steven Jaffe and Terry McCorran are the Co chairs of Northern Ireland Friends of Israel
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