February 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, February 29, 2016

Palestinian ambassador to North Korea praises its leaders as "brilliant, devoted to freedom"

From the official website of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un: Ismail Ahmed Mohamed Hasan, Palestinian ambassador to the DPRK, hosted a reception at his embassy on Friday on the occasion of the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il. Present there on invitation were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, and...

From Ian: Howard Jacobson: Anti-Zionists are fools if they think they have a monopoly on compassion Instead, this being Israel Apartheid Week, allow me, one last time, to address the charge made frequently against anyone for whom Zionism isn’t a dirty word, that such a personage wilfully and maliciously conflates anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in order to discredit the former. Since...

From The Forward: Palestinian human rights activist’s tour of Chicago-area college campuses ended on a sour note this week, after he was heckled and threatened by students and anti-Israel protestors. Bassem Eid, an East Jerusalem Palestinian who is the founder and director the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, cancelled his planned lecture at Northwestern...

Female driving student in Gaza, 2012 Hamas has started enforcing a six month old law that forbids driving schools in Gaza to have a male instructor teach a woman without a close relative of the woman in the car (mahram.) Owners of driving schools in the Gaza Strip have been complaining that Hamas police have told them that there must be a mahram with any girl who wants...

02/29 Links Pt1: PA TV Antisemitism: When fish in the sea fight, "the Jews are behind it"

From Ian: PA TV Antisemitism: When fish in the sea fight, "the Jews are behind it" The Palestinian Authority teaches that Jews are "evil" and the source of all bad in the world. An official PA TV host and preacher of Islam explained in his weekly education program about Islam, that as long as Jews are spreading their corruption "humanity will never live in comfort." He illustrated this with an example: "An old man told me: If a fish in the sea...

After months of negotiations, there will be a Palestinian version of the worldwide "Got Talent" TV series. But unlike all the other editions, this one is meant to be political. Instead of saying that this show will help highlight Palestinian Arab talent, the producers have said explicitly that "the objectives of the program are based on the primary goal to deliver a message...

EU Observer has an article about how the EU is biased - for Israel. The piece is ridiculous, because its underlying assumption is that Israel is one of the world's worst violators of human rights. So, the author complains, there are no sanctions on Israel as there are for other countries - without mentioning that these are for things like selling arms to countries like Afghanistan...

Amnesty International cemented its reputation for anti-Israel bias with its 2015/2016 annual report. Based on the number of mentions of countries in the report, Israel appears to Amnesty to be the second worst violator of human rights, besides Syria. Here's how selected countries add up: The fact is that the world trusts Amnesty to give an accurate portrayal of the...

Palestinians upset over PA thank you letter to Israel

Last week, Israel agreed to release some NIS 500 million to the Palestinian Authority. PA finance minister Shukry Bishara wrote a note thanking his Israeli counterpart for helping with that as well as other agreements they made about Palestinian worker permits in Israel I would like to express my profound appreciation for last Thursday's meeting. I hope that throughout...

Israel is one of the top ten countries in exporting potatoes (2014 numbers) Netherlands: US$905.9 million (21.7% of total raw potatoes exports) France: $519.4 million (12.4%) Germany: $334.8 million (8%) Egypt: $326.8 million (7.8%) China: $272 million (6.5%) United States: $200.1 million (4.8%) Canada: $198.2 million (4.7%) Belgium: $197.6 million (4.7%) United Kingdom:...

02/28 Links: Obama’s BDS Bill Stand Hurts Peace; Playground at Beit El comes under sniper fire

From Ian: Obama’s BDS Bill Stand Hurts Peace Last week, President Obama reluctantly signed into law a trade bill passed by Congress earlier this month that effectively banned U.S. cooperation with entities that support the BDS — boycott, divestment, sanctions — movement that targets Israel. But in his signing statement, he made clear that he would order the government not to enforce the will with respect to BDS campaigns that might target Israeli...

In a January 18, piece for the Guardian entitled EU adopts resolution criticising Israeli settlement activity by Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, we read: The European Union has unanimously adopted a tough resolution criticising Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, despite fierce efforts...

From MEMRI: Saudi cleric Sheikh Sa’d Al-Ateeq said in his fatwa show on the Saudi Ahwaz TV channel that when people post pictures of themselves and their children on social media platforms, they risk becoming afflicted with diseases, including cancer. Sheikh Al-Ateeq warned that people might print these pictures and apply sorcery to them, causing those photographed to fall...

Amnesty International has issued another one-sided anti-Israel report accusing the Jewish state of "arbitrary and discriminatory restrictions" by closing off and adding checkpoint to areas of Hebron where Arabs have been stabbing Jews. Obviously, the mere murder and attempted murder of Jews is not enough of a reason to take any measures to protect them, since Amnesty does...

U of Kent: You are allowed to spread antisemitism if you are an award winning journalist

In late January, Amira Hass gave a speech at the University of Kent where she accuses the "Elders of Zion" - a group of Jews - to have planned the eternal subjugation of Arabs in the territories: And I ask myself did the Elders of Zion really sit together at the beginning of the Seventies and then during the nineties, and plan, and have all these military orders,...

02/27 Links: Remembering Ilan Halimi, 10 Years Later; SFSU’s Partnership with Pal. Terror Uni

From Ian: SFSU’s Deafening Silence on Partnership with Palestinian University According to Matthew Levitt, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, An-Najah is known for “terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and radicalization of students,” particularly those associated with the Hamas-affiliated Islamic Bloc. Likewise, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) notes that An-Najah’s...