“While modern Israel is accused by some of land-grabbing and settler colonialism, what happened in San Remo in 1920 was precisely the opposite,” said the founding director of the European Coalition for Israel.
"The San Remo Conference is maybe the most unknown conference in Israel."
The 1920 San Remo conference declared a Jewish National Homeland in what is today Israel and Jordan.
The protection and help that Israel extends to others does not stop at Israel’s borders.
Richard Allen of JCC Watch said, "There has been a pattern - first with [BDS activist] Roger Waters and now with Alice Walker. All of our efforts to speak with the 92nd Street Y administrators have been met with closed doors, closed ears and closed minds."