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October 3, 2008

Shocking Anti-Israel Letters to the Editor
"the graffiti was not hate speech..."

October 2, 2008

Shocking Reader Commentary - Graffiti and Israel
"When someone’s graffiti equates the Star of David with the Nazi swastika, anyone may voice their strong disagreement with that equation. They are free to disagree. But the attempt to label that equation anti-Semitic is a ruse, a lie."

October 1, 2008

Days of Hate
Posters are defaced in an apparent hate crime.

September 26, 2008

UCPD Looking Into Newest Case of Hate-Related Graffiti
Campus police are investigating the latest incident in a series of hate-related vandalism reported yesterday.

September 25, 2008

Anti-Israel Graffiti Found Near Campus
"we saw it had the swastika equated with the Star of David on it. The words Jews and Israel were also crosed out. We were extremeley angry and upset.” "

September 23, 2008

Campus Groups React to Recent Acts of 'Hate Speech' Vandalism
Following incidents of offensive vandalism on and around campus, members of student groups and the campus community say they are upset and hurt.

September 22, 2008

No Place for Hate on This Campus
Recent Vandalism Attacking Israel on Bus Stop Advertisement Hinders Coexistence

July 2007

No Peace Prize for You
It's a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this time being waged in the supermarket

June 2007

BlueStarPR scores a direct hit on the UK

April 2007

Stitching together a better life for Israel's Bedouin
In March, BlueStar PR, a San Francisco-based media company made a short documentary about Ethnicware called Threads of Progress. shown throughout the US. It was screened at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on March 20, and Ishmael Khaldi, the vice consul of the state of Israel and an Israeli Bedouin Arab made an appearance at the film's debut.

January 2007

Buffing Israel's Image
What is the "Real Israel"? A San Francisco public-relations firm is just wrapping up a two-month, $17,000 billboard and BART ad campaign that seeks to answer that questions.

March 2006

BlueStarPR at Concordia.
Hillel gives peace a chance

July 2005

Beyond Camels and Sand
How teachers are using innovative posters to make modern Israel? come alive for Jewish students.

Provocative Approach To PR For Israel
The postcard depicts two young men kissing passionately and reads: "Out of the Closet and into the Streets of Tel Aviv." The information on the back notes that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the one country in the region where gays and lesbians are not persecuted for their sexual orientation. Another postcard shows an Arab woman casting a ballot, and asks: "Where in the Middle East can Arab Women Vote?" The answer: "In Israel," where all citizens, 20 percent of whom are Arabs, "share the same

March 2005

Vandals Parody BlueStar with Switcheroo
Vandals targeting BlueStar PR’s ongoing pro-Israel ad campaign have struck again, this time with a twist. At a San Francisco bus stop, a BlueStar poster was illegally replaced with a parody ad that condemned Israel.

February 2005

Atlanta Jews Honor Ray Charles
The Atlanta Jewish Times highlighted BlueStar PR's work in their story on Ray Charles

January 2005

Selling the Jewish State
The J- the San Francisco-based Jewish weekly made BlueStar PR their cover story on January 28, 2005

December 2004

Gay Man Criticizes Palestinian Society
A screening of BlueStar PR's DVD on gay life in the Middle East was followed by a Palestinian speaker at Georgetown

June 2004

Into the Streets of Tel Aviv
The J reports on BlueStar PR's efforts to educate parade participants at the 2004 San Francisco Gay Pride

April 2004

Babe in the Bunker
Barbara Simpson on BlueStar PR