June 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Yemen Arabic paper features EoZ article!

On Tuesday, I wrote that for the past two years, Egyptian Ramadan dramas have not been antisemitic, as many had been in years before. Algemeiner expanded on my post by quoting from previous posts of mine on the topic, especially how the star of last year's blockbuster Ramadan series "Jewish Quarter" caused its lead actress to explain, in response to social media criticism,...

06/30 Links Pt2: EU Acclaims Abbas Whilst Flogging Farage; Corbyn Compares Israel to ISIS

From Ian: David Singer: European Union Acclaims Abbas Whilst Flogging Farage Abbas’s address contained a litany of lies based on a fabricated reality from the outset: “I would also like to thank you all for all the different kinds of aid you have given, aiding us in institution-building and helping us establish the bases for a democratic regime which will be stable in the future and which will be able to comply with international criteria for democracy,...

From COGAT: Today, Israelis and Palestinians gathered at an international exhibition of agriculture in the heart of Tel Aviv, in which the Civil Administration arranged participation for Palestinians in order to learn about cutting-edge agricultural technology to develop their businesses. Here, an opportunity was presented to create ties with Israeli farmers, network...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column Everyone says Israel does a poor job of hasbara, but the question is “what is the job?”Hasbara is information, propaganda, public diplomacy, clarification of policies, telling the truth about Israel or telling lies. It depends on whom you ask. Folks who don’t like what I write sometimes call me a ‘hasbarist’,...

From Ian: Girl, 13, dies of wounds after stabbing attack in West Bank bedroom A 13-year-old girl died after being stabbed repeatedly by a Palestinian assailant who entered her bedroom in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba Thursday morning. Another man was seriously wounded in the terror attack. The victim, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center...

I'm going to be speaking on July 10 in Jerusalem: You can sign up for it with Facebook (just so I have an idea of how many are coming, a few people told me they would come but didn't sign up...) Hope to see many of you there! In case you are wondering, the venue is outside the Green Line. So Amnesty, HRW, the UN and the EU may consider this speech a "settlement activity"...

Ever since Yisrael (Robert) Aumann won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in game theory, I've wanted to ask him whether game theory can accommodate irrational actors such as Israel's enemies. I got my chance as I met him in his office at Hebrew University on Tuesday. His answer to me was that the question itself was wrong - Israel's enemies, and even suicide...

From an op-ed in Haaretz: Israel commits racist crimes. A prominent example is the police’s violence during the demonstrations by young Ethiopian men and women a year ago. (Police violence, incidentally, isn’t limited to young Ethiopians; many young Arabs encounter it as well.) Another example is the investigation that revealed the pressure on Ethiopian women to receive...

Times of Israel reports: A teenage girl who sustained critical injuries on Thursday morning in a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba died of her wounds. Another man was seriously wounded in the incident. The victim, Hallel Yaffe Ariel, 13, was repeatedly stabbed in the upper body and was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem unconscious,...

Fatah celebrates the release of a terrorist

Fatah's Facebook page is celebrating Fawaz Fayez being released from Israeli prison after a fifteen year prison sentence. Which photo did they choose to emphasize the essence of Mr. Fayez? This one, of course: I don't know what he was convicted. But I do see from this photo that the gun is the focal point of the announcement celebrating his release. NGOs like Amnesty...

06/29 Links Pt2: Political NGOs in the World Health Assembly's Condemnation of Israel

From Ian: NGO Monitor: The Role of Political NGOs in the World Health Assembly's Condemnation of Israel On May 25, 2016, the delegates of the 69th World Health Assembly (held under the auspices of the World Health Organization) in Geneva adopted a decision condemning Israel. Out of 24 items on the meeting’s agenda, only Item 19 focused on political issues – specifically on “Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east...

If you look at the BDS "Victories" page, you will see this: Note how they phrase this: they aren't saying that the artists agree with BDS, only that they have either "refused" or cancelled performances after BDS threats. Anyway, when Carlos Santana canceled a concert in 2010, the BDSers counted this as a victory. This year, Santana is coming to Israel. His manager...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Trenton, June 29 - As part of a legislative package passed on Monday that barred the state pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel, New Jersey General Assembly and Senate members also initiated a mandated weekly...

From Ian: Why Palestinians Throw Rocks In part it is a reaction to the canards being circulated by the Palestinian Authority and its leader Mahmoud Abbas that allege Israel intends to harm the mosques on the Temple Mount. That there are no such plans and that, in fact, the Israelis are enforcing a discriminatory rule intended to placate Muslims, has had no impact on the...

Times of Israel reported: A school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday covered up a map of “historic Palestine” — which is today the modern State of Israel — ahead of a visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The map at an UNRWA institution in the Hamas-run enclave where Ban gave a press conference was seen in photos concealed by a white sheet. Pierre Krähenbühl, the UN agency...

Syrians accuse Russians of helping Israel find or fake Jewish antiquities in Palmyra

The paranoia of Arabs about ancient Jewish presence in the Middle East has reached a new level of absurdity. From Syria's Zaman al-Wasl: Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that secret excavation operations in the historic city of Palmyra are underway, aiming to find claimed Jewish antiquities backed by Russia which has the upper hand in the city. The sources...

06/28 Links Pt2: US Govt Funds Anti-Israel Groups; Sharansky: There is no future for Jews in France

From Ian: Notes on a Gazan’s Visit to Israel After the last war, Israel eased some of their restrictions, and hundreds of Gazans crossed every day. Most of the people who obtained permits were either businessmen or local staff members of international organizations. Fewer than 10 people were sitting on the chairs waiting for the soldier in the glass enclosure to call each name. Many of them were mothers with their children. Most, I assumed, were...

“In a democracy it is occasionally necessary to defer to the wishes of the majority,” observed Queen Victoria’s favourite prime minister, the old “Hebrew conjuror” Benjamin Disraeli. It is a lesson that many on the losing side of Britain’s 23 June referendum on whether the country should quit or remain in the European Union don’t want to learn. These...