November 2015 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, November 30, 2015

Former Cambridge researcher refuses to answer 13 year old Israeli girl's question about horses (updates x2)

Dr. Marsha Levine is an expert on the history of the domestication of horses who i(still claims to be) a researcher at Cambridge University although apparently she no longer is. A young Israeli girl named Shachar Rabinovitch wrote to her for help on a school research project: Hello! My name is Shachar Rabinovitch and I'm from Israel. I'm doing an assessment for...

From MEMRI: In a recent Friday sermon, Egyptian cleric Sheikh Talaat Zahran, a professor of humanities at Alexandria University, said: "When France saw that there were six million Muslims on its land... they began to fear that the Muslims would storm their democratic system, and would take over power and become ministers. That is why they plotted this trap, losing some...

11/30 Links Pt2: Israel suspends EU contact over peace process; NGOs and the Economic War

From Ian: Shmuley Boteach: British Jewish students attempt to silence my mention of Israel Yet this week, for the first time in my life - having spoken at Universities across the world - I encountered a form of censorship in the most unlikely of all places: when I spoke to the Jewish Society at King’s College, London. European Jews developed a survival instinct over centuries of persecution. They lie low, avoid public displays and use quiet diplomacy...

Here's an interesting case. Someone with the nom de plume of "Ãląą Türĸmąņ" on Facebook puts her job as "‎Ñø-ŧĥìñğ at UNRWA and ‎Teacher at ‎مدرسة بنات عسكر الاولى‎‎‎." The school, which is the Askar Girls Primary School, is an UNRWA school in the Askar UNRWA camp near Nablus. Here's something she posted a few days ago: The caption says “Beware of the harm of the...

I’ve often asked myself this question. It may not be so black and white. Is UNICEF really ignoring Palestinian child abuse or is there something deeper worth looking into? UNICEF is one of the better umbrella organizations of the UN, and I do applaud their work in helping children world-wide in lesser developed, war-torn nations. As I was researching for this article,...

11/30 Links Pt1: Murray: The Real Lesson of the Paris Attacks; Deeds of defiance; Calling their bluffs

From Ian: Douglas Murray: The Real Lesson of the Paris Attacks When the truth is revealed, it can be not merely unpleasant but often accidental. There have been several striking examples of this since the massacre in Paris earlier this month. In the days immediately after the attack, The Times of London interviewed residents of Paris. Referring to the latest attacks, one 46-year old resident also referred back to the attacks in January on the offices...

The Gaza ministry of the interior released statistics on how many people have crossed between Gaza and Egypt this year, and compared it to previous years. So far this year the Rafah crossing has only been open for 19 days. This chart based on the data shows how restrictive Egypt has been year over year. In contrast, Israel has allowed about 140,000 crossings this year...

Egypt's Ahram Online reports: Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued a decree on Sunday revoking the nationality of three Egyptian citizens for joining the military service of foreign country without a permit from the Minister of Defense. According to the decree, Mohamed Fayez Hussein Hassan Fogo, Ragab Ismail Ragab Bazazou and Walid Salman Hamdan Abdel Rahman El-Talbany...

Today, the Palestinian Authority's official WAFA news agency reported: Israeli forces Sunday raided and wreaked havoc into a Kindergarten in the town of Beit of Ummar to the south of Hebron, according to a local official. Spokesperson of the anti settlement popular committee in Beit Ummar, Mohammed Awad, informed WAFA that armed Israeli soldiers raided a kindergarten at...

.@UNRWA worker didn't get the "neutrality" memo

Hossam Ghali is a staff nurse at UNRWA in Gaza. On Facebook, here was one of his profile pictures: It looks like UNRWA didn't manage to get the message to everyone that their jobs are supposedly in jeopardy if they post messages that violate UNRWA's stated neutrality rules. This blog may be a labor of love for me, but it takes a lot of effort, time and money. For over...

From Egypt's Al Ahram: Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world's highest Sunni authority, says it will convene in February an international conference on violations committed by Israeli occupation forces against Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is considered the third holiest site in Islam. Al-Azhar's High Clerical Council said in a statement Friday that the conference will address...

In the first quarter of 2011, I wrote fairly regularly for a site called NewsRealBlog. The site became inactive after a few months but the articles remained online. Today, I realized that the site was gone - and so were my articles. So I will republish some of them here. (Pasting them into a word processor, they take up over 80 pages - and those are only the articles I was...

11/29 Links: PA Minister: Palestinian women make "cries of joy" upon son's death; 2 More Stabbings

From Ian: PMW: Palestinian women are unique, make "cries of joy" upon son's death, says PA minister The Palestinian Authority Minister of Women's Affairs, Haifa Al-Agha, who is herself a woman, recently praised Palestinian women pointing out their "uniqueness" compared to all the other women of the world because they rejoice upon the news of the death of their sons: "[PA] Minister of Women's Affairs Haifa Al-Agha... noted the Palestinian woman's...

Europe is in chaos due to the raw fact of millions of Arabs pouring onto the continent, heading for Germany and Sweden. The United States is also very familiar with large waves of immigrants pouring into the country at an alarming rate for a great many citizens... and a great many nativists. With the waves of mid-late nineteenth-century immigration into the United...

From MEMRI: In a November 26, 2015 interview on the Hamas Al-Aqsa TV channel, Salah Al-Bardawil, a Hamas leader in Gaza, said that the Jews had "ancient biblical beliefs, which instructed them to kill children and collect their blood, in order to knead it into the bread that is eaten on Passover." "This is the killing of a Palestinian child in order to collect his blood...

This looks like a parody, but it's not. It is a recommendation that was overwhelmingly approved by those voting at the National Women's Studies Association meeting: Recommendation 1 The first recommendation, developed by Feminists for Justice in/for Palestine (FJP), an ad-hoc group founded in Puerto Rico at NWSA 2014, urges the Association to join the international Boycott,...