January 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, January 31, 2016

EoZTV: Amnesty can't fight antisemitism but can buy an ad for the Terror Clown

Last year, at Amnesty International's annual conference, the only resolution to be voted down was one calling to fight antisemitism. Yet Amnesty had no problem spending an estimated $10,000 to buy an ad to support a Palestinian clown in administrative detention - a clown who happens to feature terrorists and support for ethnically cleansing Jews on his Facebook page. This...

Hasby Awards - Best Speech

The Hasby Award for Best Speech of 2015 goes to......

A poster I posted on Twitter last week that got shared fairly widely: We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israel. $5 : $5.00 USD - monthly$10 : $10.00 USD - monthly$25 : $25.00 USD - monthly$50...

01/31 Links: Ban Ki-moon is Justifying terrorism; Where Providing Water Is a Crime

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Justifying terrorism The Anti-Defamation League demanded a clarification from Ban of his remarks, which it called “highly disturbing.” CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Ban’s remarks were “incredibly short-sighted.” Like Lauder, Greenblatt warned of the likely consequences of Ban’s statement: “These comments will not only serve to further embolden Palestinians seeking to attack Israeli civilians, but also undermine the global...

One of the most hysterical aspects of this political moment in the West is the phenomenon of blatant left-leaning racists who self-righteously claim to stand against racism. The hypocrisy is both obvious and rich. The most racist political movement in the West today, aside from political Islam, is western-progressivism, a political movement allegedly, and...

Last week came the bombshell news that Israeli air footage was being intercepted by US and UK intelligence for years: The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel's air force in a hacking operation dating back to 1998, according to documents attributed to leaks by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. Israel voiced...

From BBC: Two men who were sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela in South Africa have received the Freedom of the City of London. Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada and Denis Goldberg were both jailed because of their activities during the Apartheid period. Lord Mayor Jeffrey Mountevans said the honour was a "tribute to the noble and fearless fortitude" of the...

EoZTV: The State Department and labeling "settlement" goods

The latest edition of EoZTV, about the State Department's claim that the regulations that were just published are nothing new... We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israel. $5 : $5.00 USD - monthly$10...

01/30 Links: The apartheid myth, “My Truth” Breaks The Silence; Ironic end to 'tunnel martyrs' funeral

From Ian: Ben-Dror Yemini: The apartheid myth Despite the slanderous propaganda against Israel, the Palestinians not only have a parliament, but also higher education institutions, a police force, security forces, a justice system and prisons. Is this apartheid? Thanks to Israeli rule, they're number 1 among university graduates in the Arab world. Is this oppression? A Kabbalat Shabbat was supposed to take place at the Chicago LGBTQ conference...

Friday: France warned Friday that it will recognize a Palestinian state if its imminent efforts to end the deadlock in peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians end without result. “France will engage in the coming weeks in the preparation of an international conference bringing together the parties and their main partners, American, European, Arab, notably to preserve...

01/29 Links Pt2: Amira Hass invokes "the Elders"; Anti-Israel Academics Face Pushback by the Truth

From Ian: David Collier: The ‘Elders of Zion’ reborn at the University of Kent Yesterday, 28/01/2016, I was at the University of Kent to hear a talk by Amira Hass titled ‘Israel and the Palestinians: Colonialism and Prospects for Justice. The event itself was a collaboration between The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Kent University and the Palestine Centre at SOAS, University of London. One of these universities, SOAS, is already...

Palestine News Network quotes the Secretary General of the Palestine National Movement, Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, as saying that the amount of losses that hit Israel due to BDS is estimated by "economists" to be $31 billion. This figure is being quoted all over Arab media today. I found another quote of Barghouti saying that BDS has cost Israel $20 billion so far, with...

01/29 Links Pt1: Caroline Glick: Hope is not a strategy; US, UK spied on IAF for 18 yrs

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Hope is not a strategy The lesson from these miserable experiences is clear enough. Since Israel is going to be attacked no matter what it does, we might as well do things that advance our interests. Since we will be vilified for building “settlements” even when the government freezes construction, we might as well build settlements. Since the price for expanding existing buildings is the same as the price for building new...

Fatah has caused a stir by insulting Hamas and the seven dead militants who were killed in a tunnel collapse. On the official Fatah Facebook page, it described Hamas leaders as "group of warlords and who know nothing about life except how to bury their youth with sand." "When will they stop messing around with the talents and dreams of our youth oppressed in Gaza? And...

YNet, among others, reports: US Customs passed recently issued a reminder notice to importers in the US to not label products that come from the West Bank as "Made in Israel" and made it clear that those who do not comply would be sanctioned, according to a Channel 1 News report. This is not a new guideline, but rather a reissuing of one from 1995 - which is a byproduct...

The newest edition of EoZTV takes a look at video snippets of most of the speeches up for the Best Speech Hasby Award. Mrs. Elder and I briefly discuss the speeches. The nominees for Best Speech Hasby award are: The shocking words of this pro-Israel pastor Bibi's UN speech - with 45 seconds of "deafening silence" Matti Friedman's speech to BICOM dinner Mayor...

World Medical Association head seems sick of BDS lies

Last week: A group of 71 doctors in the United Kingdom are pressuring the World Medical Association to remove the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) from the global body’s membership, an IMA representative said at the Israeli Knesset this week. “The professional British journals have adopted the idea of letters to the editor that libel Israeli doctors,” Dr. Ze’ev Feldman,...