October 2017 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Iraqi Parliament criminalizes display of Israeli flag

From Voice of America: Following the display of the Israeli flag in pro-independence Kurdish rallies, the Iraqi parliament, known as the Council of Representatives, voted Tuesday to ban the Israeli flag, describing it as a Zionist symbol. "A dangerous phenomenon, representing the hoisting of the Zionist entity flag during public rallies in front of the media, has recently...

10/31 Links Pt2: Calling Out the Tellers of Anti-Israel Lies; When old and new anti-Semitism come together

From Ian: Calling Out the Tellers of Anti-Israel Lies Media coverage of, and academic writings about, Israel routinely betray the intellectual integrity that should govern both. Israel has paid a steep price; the Palestinians perhaps even more so. It would be difficult to quantify precisely the damage inflicted by the omissions, distortions, and accusations that routinely disfigure portrayals of Israel. Still, the steady flow of malicious propaganda...

An apparel company called "Wear the Peace" just came out with their newest collection: a line of clothing with a map of "Palestine" as a folded keffiyeh - and no Israel. But they want peace! They say it right in their very name! Why should anyone think that a peace organization that calls for ethnically cleansing Jews from Israel is anything but peaceful? (h/t...

From the New International Encyclopedia, 1915 edition, published by Dodd, Mead, Volume 12, under "Jews:" Besides the obvious antisemitic stereotypes - all the more striking because this was written to be the 1915 equivalent of "politically correct" - there is one other striking part of this description. In may ways, it describes the exact opposite of the Zionists who...

10/31 Links Pt1: Israeli deterrence in a new Middle East; Year Zero: The Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Our crazy world this week Please join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network the Democrats’ Russian boomerang (which of course has been generally ignored or scorned), VP Mike Pence’s initiative to support the persecuted Christians of the Middle East, and the Catalan crisis that has erupted in Spain. Year Zero: The Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration For the Palestinians, the year zero is not...

Thursday is the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, yet after 100 years people still argue over it and Abbas is still asking Great Britain for an apology. What did the Balfour Declaration actually do? And what did the Balfour Declaration recognize? The second question is no more settled than the first. Arthur Balfour. Credit: Wikipedia We all are...

Even Palestinian academics admit that it is impossible to sue Britain for Balfour

A surprising article in Al Quds -in fact, its top story, this morning, discusses whether there is any possible legal basis to sue Great Britain over the Balfour Declaration, as the Palestinian leadership has been threatening since an Arab League summit last July. The verdict? There is no possible way that the ICC or ICJ would hear such a case. According to Bir Zeit University international law professor Yasser Al-Amouri, there...

Today's funeral for some of the terrorists killed in the tunnel Once again, the most striking unreported story about Palestinians isn't what some of them are saying, but what none of the are not. The only purpose of a tunnel reaching under the Gaza border into Israel is to perform war crimes. Whether the crimes are to kidnap civilians, kidnap soldiers, or to pop out...

Mahmoud Abbas' "moderate" Fatah praises dead tunnel terrorists

Fatah has condemned Israel's blowing up a terror tunnel that reached into Israel from Gaza, killing at least 7 Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists. Count the lies from the PA's official news agency Wafa (Arabic):: RAMALLAH, 10-30-2017 (WAFA) - The Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) condemned the Israeli crime that targeted our people in the Gaza Strip, killing...

10/30 Links Pt2: Human rights or racketeering?; Celebrating Israeli-Australian friendship

From Ian: UN Watch: Human rights or racketeering? In what one human-rights activist characterizes as blackmail, the United Nations Human Rights Council is reportedly pressuring a major Israeli telecom to cease operations in disputed areas of the Jewish state or face the possibility of being designated a human-rights abuser. It's part of a broader effort — referred to as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement — to chill businesses serving...

One of the consistent themes of the Fatah Facebook page is the constant posters and videos of Yasir Arafat. The reason is obviously because Arafat was a charismatic leader who unified the always-fractious Palestinians, a leader that has never been replaced. But the secondary, and hilarious, theme of the Fatah page is that Abbas is that successor. At every opportunity...

By Petra Marquardt-Bigman Most of you have probably already heard about Michael Chikindas, a professor at Rutgers’ Department of Food Science. His research interests sound professional and include “Bacillus subtilis and lactic acid bacteria spp. as a host for overproduction of biomolecules,” but the professor’s problem is an acute and apparently untreated overproduction...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The malevolent guest at London's Balfour dinner When Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to attend this week’s dinner in London to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, a dinner to which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited as the guest of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, Corbyn said Labour’s shadow foreign...

I’m guessing that many people reading this are dedicated activists with experience battling Israel haters in the endless physical and virtual communities where those battles take place. People who do Jewish or pro-Israel politics for a living tend to refer to ground-level activists like many of us as “the grassroots,” indicating a separate source of people, resources,...

People still get confused between the terms antisemitism and anti-Zionism, so I decided to list all the major differences between the two so no one will make that mistake again. (Click to enlarge.) Antisemites Anti-Zionists “Jews should go back where they came from” “Israeli Jews should go back where they came from” “Jews control the USA” “Israel...

Last June, MEMRI discovered a video taken at a Quds Day even sponsored by a Shiite mosque, attended by an Iranian diplomat, where Holocaust denial and anti-Zionism went hand-in-hand. At a Quds Day event in Auckland, New Zealand, held on June 23, Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Shafie said that Israel and the Zionist regime "hide behind a fake phenomenon" of the Holocaust and...

The 1939 White Paper, not Balfour Declaration, is the document that the British really DO need to apologize for

A Jewish demonstration against the White Paper, 1939 On this 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Arabs have been waging a major campaign over the past year to force Great Britain to apologize for issuing it. This is absurd, of course, for a number of reasons. The The Balfour Declaration was incorporated into the San Remo Resolution and...