April 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Kosher chicken soup - and Sabra hummus - for sale in Gaza

The Metro Market in Gaza has some specials, all of which happen to be made in Israel. Kosher chicken (flavored) soup. Hot chocolate mix from Kahan's. Coffee-flavored milkshakes from Elite. Sugat's colored frosting. Sabra hummus! They don't seem too embarrassed to sell Israeli products - in fact they feature them (along with M&Ms, Nutella, Heinz and...

04/30 Links: Stephen Pollard: The Left's hatred of Jews chills me to the bone; Murray: Labour’s anti-Semitism problem stems from its grassroots

From Ian: Stephen Pollard: The Left's hatred of Jews chills me to the bone It matters, of course, to all of us, because – as we have seen both on 9/11 and ever since, Islamist terrorism is not specific in its targeting. But it matters to me more, I would say, than anything else I can think of. Because although these maniacs will happily kill anyone, they say, and their subsequent murders show, that – quite specifically – they want to kill me....

Chag sameach!

The second half of Passover is beginning. I will not be posting until Saturday night or Sunday morning. Enjoy the end of the holiday! Here's a video of New York City police employees eating matzoh for the first time. It was cruel to give it to them without butter or jelly. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate...

04/28 Links Pt2: Sanders Advisor: Netanyahu Complicit In Rabin Assassination; Glick: Defeating Hamas in America

From Ian: Netanyahu Complicit In Assassination Of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, Claims Ex-U.S. Official Who Advised Sanders Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created the circumstances that led to the assassination of former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered in 1995, claimed former U.S. official Lawrence Wilkerson, who has reportedly advised Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. Wilkerson made the statement during an interview earlier...

The people who want the American Anthropologist Association to boycott Israeli academic institutions have been calling on members who support BDS to send pictures of them holding signs showing why. This one is particularly stupid: So boycotting Israeli academia is "academic freedom for all?" Look how proud she is of publicly showing her inability to think coherently! I...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column The relationship of Israel to the UN has always been difficult. Over the years, the organization has both reflected worldwide anti-Jewish prejudice and provided a focus for intervention against Israel’s interests.UN General Assembly resolution 3379 which in 1975 declared Zionism “a form of racism and racial discrimination” was...

04/28 Links Pt1: Labour suspends Ken Livingstone for saying Hitler backed Zionism; Austria hosts Palestinian hijacker terrorist

From Ian: In spiraling anti-Semitism row, Labour suspends Livingstone for saying Hitler backed Zionism Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Thursday suspended a veteran and senior member, Ken Livingstone, after he claimed that Adolf Hitler was initially a supporter of Zionism “before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews,” and charged that for decades in the UK there has been a “well-orchestrated campaign by the Israel lobby to smear...

After yesterday's terror attack, the NAD-PLO tweeted: Translation: "Do you believe that a mother of two who is five months pregnant would go with her brother to implement a terror attack? Erekat condemning Maryam and Ibrahim's execution." Ma'an quotes "witnesses" saying that the pair had no knife and that the Israeli forces planted the two kitchen knives and switchblade...

This is not yet behind the Haaretz paywall and it is very interesting. By Salman Mashala: Tawfik Toubi It may be hard to believe nowadays, but there was a time when leftist Arab leaders in this country could rightly be called “Israeli freedom fighters.” In those days, the Arab left fought for Israeli independence and was not averse to a “Jewish state.” Accounts from that...

Did you know that there is a shortage of Palestinian journalists who want to use their skills to help the "resistance"? According to the UN, there is. As part of a special information programme mandated by the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Department of Public Information - Strategic Communications Division - Palestine, Decolonization and Human Rights Section...

The myth of the moderate Palestinian took another blow yesterday when students voted for Hamas over Fatah in student elections at Bir Zeit University. Such student elections are watched closely by Palestinian society as a bellwether for how the people at large are thinking, especially the intelligentsia. Hamas won 25 seats, followed by Fatah which won 21 seats. The Popular...

04/27 Links Pt2: UK Labour's disgusting anti-Semitism; Freedom House drinks anti-Israel Kool-Aid

From Ian: Douglas Murray: What a week for integration Britain! I say all this is a success for integration Britain, because every week brings up cases like this and nobody seems remotely willing to reflect on them. While people in senior jobs in public life turn out to be open and essentially unapologetic racists, we pretend that all that’s needed for our country’s future to be secure is to tweak the racism awareness lessons a bit more or make...

It's insulting! (This cartoon can of course be used with a large number of subjects, from many nations, and be perfectly accurate.) 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 Israe...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, April 27 - The Knesset Comptroller's Office has noticed an increase in the amount of deodorant bought by MK Tzipi Livni in the last two weeks, Knesset observers have reported. The monthly deadline for submission of...

Ma'an reports that Jordan's Ministry of Endowments announced today that it is recruiting 150 new "observers" in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. There are already 300 paid "observers" at the site. It is assumed that these "observers" are meant to make up for the embarrassing episode where Jordan planned to install cameras on the site but Palestinians were upset over the plan that could...

04/27 Links Pt1: The PA's Billion Dollar Fraud; Gaza kids put on play about stabbing, killing Israelis

From Ian: PMW: The PA's Billion Dollar Fraud The Palestinian Authority is deceiving Western donor countries, falsely claiming to have stopped paying salaries to terrorist prisoners, and reaping more than a billion dollars/year in return This special report by Palestinian Media Watch reveals a major fraud by the Palestinian Authority, through which it is reaping more than a billion dollars in foreign aid yearly. In 2014, the PA announced that in...

Marc Lamont Hill is a political news host at the BET network, although I have a hard time taking anyone seriously as a supposed newscaster who chooses to do TV appearances wearing a T-shirt. But he is a former frequent guest on Fox News and has also appeared numerous times on CNN. Here he is proving that he is a fraud both as a supposed news host and willing to make...

The latest JMCC poll of Palestinian youth find yet again that a majority support stabbing Israelis: In answer to the question "To what extent do you support or oppose the continuation of knife attacks against Israelis?" a majority, 58.2%, support while only 37.8% oppose. This was slightly higher than the 56.2% of the general Palestinian population that support knife attacks...

From YNet: Two Palestinian terrorists Wednesday morning attempted to stab Border Policemen at Qalandiya checkpost north of Jerusalem before being shot and killed by security forces. No injuries were reported. Two terrorists, one female and one male, attempted to walk through a passage intended for vehicle entry and began speeding up in the direction of Border policemen...

While NGOs claim Israel violates laws of war, USA adopts IDF methods

From a video press conference with U.S. Air Force Major General Peter E. Gersten, deputy commander for operations and intelligence, Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, speaking from Baghdad: I would say, it -- we have to measure every weapon and every effect that we bring to the battle space. It doesn't change the way we operate; we've always had a...

04/26 Links Pt2: The Anti-Israel Money Trail; Yet another anti-Semitic UK Labour MP; Obama's view of reality

From Ian: Bret Stephens (WSJ): The Anti-Israel Money Trail SJP’s self-declared goal is to end Israel’s “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands” while “promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.” That’s another way of saying destroying the Jewish state. Yet as prominent as SJP and the wider BDS movement have become, less is known about the sources of their funding. That changed last week after testimony to the...