June 2017 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, June 30, 2017

06/30 Links Pt2: Phillips: Denial: the Labour Party's antisemitism; Glick: Who cares about Jewish unity?

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Denial: the Labour Party's antisemitism David Hirsh’s must-see video, Whitewashed: Antisemitism in the Labour Party (which you can view below) starts with a truly shocking clip of Jeremy Corbyn speaking. Having referred to the profoundly anti-Jewish, murderous terrorist organisations Hezbollah and Hamas as his “friends”, he says (of either or both): “The idea that an organisation that is dedicated towards the good of the...

"Moderate" Palestinian intellectuals admit that the goal has always been destroying Israel

I just went through a long article at Al Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, talking about what strategy Palestinians need to use to achieve their goals. It was written by Nadia Hijab and Ingrid Jaradat Gassner. Hijab is a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and Gassner is one of the founders of BDS. The actual goals are not spelled out, but it becomes pretty clear what they are - destroying Israel, on both sides of the...

06/30 Links Pt1: Abbas's Lies and Palestinian Child Victims; UN hosts hatefest comparing Israelis to ISIS

From Ian: Major (res.) Eyal Harel, don’t blame the system [This was NOT translated from the Hebrew edition to the English one at Haaretz (Which is fake news by omission) - Guess why. (h/t Yenta Press)] An IDF officer answers claims by a fellow (Breaking The Silence) officer: My name is Eran Ben Yaakov, and I am a major in reserve duty. Eyal Harel has served under my command in most of the incidents he describes ("What Really Happens in the World's...

J-Street sent out an action alert: THE US SHOULDN'T BLOCK PALESTINIANS FROM UN JOBS JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE PALESTINIAN Tell Amb. Nikki Haley to reverse her discriminatory policy against Palestinians at the United Nations. The world was stunned in February when Ambassador Nikki Haley made it clear she was blocking the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam...

From Albawaba: “Saudis support naturalization” with Israel. This, the surprising hashtag that has been trending on Twitter in the Gulf state over the last few days. Saudi Arabia currently has no diplomatic ties with Israel, which it does not recognize, and anti-Israeli sentiment has typically been widespread in the kingdom. This much is evident from the majority of...

Ma'an English reports it this way: An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that a Palestinian shot towards Israeli soldiers during a dawn raid in Jenin, before dropping his weapon and fleeing.No Israelis were injured in the incident, the spokesperson said, adding that the army recovered the weapon on the scene.The spokesperson added that the soldiers were targeted as...

06/29 Links Pt2: Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites; The Palestinian mufti’s intersectionality with the Nazis

From Ian: Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites This kind of logic results in a German court ruling that throwing Molotov cocktails at a German synagogue is an acceptable expression of protest. It is not anti-Semitism, but rather a legitimate criticism of Israel's policies! In German, this is simply called Israelkritik -- not a critique of any specific policy by whatever government...

The paranoia of Jews taking over lands in Egypt has reached a new high. Egypt's Al Wafd reports that at an ancient Jewish cemetery in Cairo a group of real estate agents were spotted laying concrete foundations for buildings. Supposedly, Jews had contracted these people to build these structures and sell them. Residents called the police about this Jewish plot, and...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column Israelis are good at Viewing With Alarm. And today’s newspaper is full of things to be alarmed about, all the way from the 130,000 missiles aimed at us and controlled by a regime that announces every day that we will soon be destroyed (and has set up a countdown clock to emphasize that), through the millions of Euros spent...

From Ian: PMW: PA libel: Israel uses drugs in war against Palestinians Discussing the war on drugs in Jerusalem, a Palestinian Authority TV host stated that Israel is deliberately targeting young Palestinians with drugs. The Palestinian coordinator of a UNDP-sponsored campaign against drugs, Isaam Jweihan, endorsed this PA libel, stating that Israel uses drugs as "an unconventional...

“Drive them out. Drive out the terrorists. Drive out the extremists. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land and drive them out of this Earth.” Donald Trump to Arab world leaders in Riyadh, May 21, 2017 While Trump is trying to get his message about terrorism and extremism across to the Arab world,...

Michael Bolton performed in Lebanon on Wednesday night at the Jounieh Summer Festival. Lebanon has literally passed laws to ensure that Palestinians can't own land, can't get many jobs, can't go to university and can't build even within their overcrowded camps. Some two thirds of Lebanese Palestinians live under the poverty line. Lebanon built a wall around one of those...

Times of Israel has a fairly decent overview of the history of prayer at the Western Wall. But it has an unfortunate headline: One has to read the article carefully to find out the reason why: Under the Ottoman Empire, restrictions were again imposed on the Jews by 1705, including the inability to create permanent fixtures such as partitions — or even tables and benches...

06/28 Links Pt2: Whitewashed: Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party; The Balfour Declaration Was More than the Promise of One Nation

From Ian: Major Documentary on UK Labour Party Antisemitism Premieres in London Some of the UK’s leading Jewish intellectuals gathered with Labour Party parliamentarians at London’s JW3 Jewish community center on Monday night for the public launch of a major documentary on the issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party. Read The Algemeiner’s review of “Whitewashed: Antisemitism in the Labour Party” Among those speaking at the first screening of “Whitewashed”...

The egalitarian prayer space, Robinson's Arch, Western Wall. I've been writing about the Western Wall controversy and Women of the Wall since 2013, when I was still a starry-eyed blogger for the Times of Israel. Back then, I summed it up as follows: "The question is: whose freedom of religion is in question here? Is it the freedom of the Women of the Wall to worship...