2015 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, December 31, 2015

12/31 Links Pt2: When BDS Infiltrates Social Causes That Have Nothing to Do With Israel

From Ian: This Is What Happens When BDS Infiltrates Social Causes That Have Nothing to Do With Israel If intersectionality, as applied to Israel, sounds like a contrived excuse to blame the Jewish state for everything under the sun, that’s because it is. Anti-Israel circles understand that their cause isn’t even on the radar of the average college student. By hitching their wagon to issues with greater popular appeal, pro-Palestinian activists...

As I read other websites showing off their best accomplishments of the year (and asking for money), I realized that I have many categories of things I posted that each deserve their own "Best Of" post. So here are my best posters of 2015. Click to enlarge. If you think that this is...

Palestine Press Agency reports that Saudi Arabia will provide "generous financial support" for the Palestinian Authority to pay off its deficit. Sources indicated that the Saudis promised to provide financial and political support and the money transfer is likely within the next few days. Mahmoud Abbas met yesterday in Riyadh Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and gave him...

Vic Rosenthal's weekly column: In a dramatic development, a district judge ordered the police and Shabak to release a suspected Jewish extremist who had been held in administrative detention for a month, not allowed to speak to a lawyer for almost three weeks, and who claimed (persuasively) to have been tortured. The police and State Prosecutor refused...

12/31 Links Pt1: Terror attack at Eilat hotel thwarted; Fatah celebrates 51 years of murder

From Ian: Terror thwarted: 'East Jerusalem men planned to set off bomb in Eilat hotel' Two Israeli citizens of east Jerusalem were indicted Thursday on charges that they plotted to blow up a hotel in the southern resort town of Eilat. According to the indictment, the two suspects, Halil Nimri and Ashraf Salaimeh, met while working at the same hotel in Eilat. Some two months ago the pair met and decided to carry out a terror attack against Jews...

Henry Siegman writes in Haaretz: In the late sixties or early seventies, when I served as the executive head of the Synagogue Council of America, the coordinating body for certain social action and interreligious activities of the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform national rabbinical and congregational organizations in the United States, I had a private conversation—one...

AFP reports: Islamist group Hamas has banned public New Year's Eve parties in the Gaza Strip because they offend the territory's "values and religious traditions", police said on Wednesday. "The interior ministry and police department did not give permits to any restaurants, hotels or halls for end-of-year parties" after several venues requested permission, police spokesman...

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics came out with their year-end population figures. According to them, the total number of Palestinians in the world is now up to 12.37 million, with 2.9 million in the West Bank, 1.85 million in Gaza, 1.47 million Arabs in Israel, 5.46 million in Arab countries and around 685,000 in foreign countries. Last year they counted 12.1...

Most popular EoZ posts of 2015

Here are the most popular posts of the year (not counting posts from previous years that did well): 10. Hamas accuses Israel of being behind Paris attacks, threatens to kill all French immigrants to Israel Par for the course. 9. Former Cambridge researcher refuses to answer 13 year old Israeli girl's question about horses Making Marsha Levine a...

12/30 Links Pt2: Journalist: I realized the left's positions were childish; IDF: What Was My 2015?

From Ian: Journalist: I realized the left's positions were childish Israeli journalist Avri Gilad on Tuesday credited the late Minister Uri Orbach for changing his worldview from the left to the right. Gilad and Orbach were, for many years, co-hosts of a show on Army Radio called “Hamila Ha’acharona” (lit. “The Last Word”) which pits a leftist and a rightist journalist against one another for one hour daily. Speaking at a meeting with students...

Iran's Abna news agency is belittling Saudi Arabia for being too ridiculously anti-Israel. Of course, the reason is because Iran hates Saudi Arabia, not because Iran likes Israel. The last two paragraphs reveal all. Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Saudi “Grand Mufti” Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh who is dependent upon Al-Saud Royal Family has called ISIS part of the Zionist regime,...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. I said my piece today in court about my innocence, and about how I will respect the High Court's rulings on my impending prison sentences. My legal team is examining what further options we have, but it comes down to this: whom do I have to bribe to get...

12/30 Links Pt1:US Spied on Israel, Congressmen; Fatah to kids: Water the ground "with blood"

From Ian: US spied on Netanyahu during Iran deal talks, WSJ reports The U.S. administration continued to spy on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even after U.S. President Barack Obama announced two years ago he would curtail the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program on friendly heads of state, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The NSA's foreign eavesdropping included phone conversations between top Israeli officials and U.S....

A very insightful post at OpenDemocracy from a dovish Israeli, Efraim Perlmutter, who is now a teacher at a Bedouin high school: About twelve years ago I participated in a conference in Cyprus that was co-sponsored by an American and Spanish NGO. The conference brought together Israeli and Palestinian educators to discuss introducing peace-oriented study in their respective...