November 2017 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Newsweek gives credence to blood libel of a "Jewish ritual murder"

This is a real headline at Newsweek: You have to read the article to find out who these "investigators" are: The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church is launching an investigation into whether the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of a ritual murder carried out by angry Jews in 1918, Church leaders revealed in a statement Tuesday."A large...

11/30 Links Pt2: ICC prosecutor reaffirms she won’t open Gaza flotilla probe; Linda Sarsour Attacks The “Jewish Media” At Event On Anti-Semitism

From Ian: International Court prosecutor reaffirms she won’t open Gaza flotilla probe The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Thursday she is standing by her previous decision not to open a full-scale investigation into the storming by Israeli forces of a blockade-busting flotilla heading to the Gaza Strip in 2010. Fatou Bensouda in November 2014 declined a request by the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros to investigate the May 31,...

Iran's Al Alam has another of the the regime's daily conspiracy-theory antisemitic articles, entitled "The axis of resistance is a major blow to 'Greater Israel.'" After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was a question: What is the Zionist role in this invasion?In that period, it began on the banks of the Euphrates River a program called "beast of the lake", where Jewish...

Defending Israel against Reform evangelism (Vic Rosenthal)

This week the conflict between liberal and progressive elements in American Jewry and the government of Israel was escalated.On November 16, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the American Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), and others tried to push their way (see video here) into the Western Wall area carrying Torah scrolls in defiance of rules established by the Orthodox authorities that manage the site, intending to pass them to members...

11/30 Links Pt1: Saudis Fed Up: "Palestinians Milking Us for Decades"; Gaza’s Latest Lesson in Self-Inflicted Misery

From Ian: Saudis Fed Up: "Palestinians Milking Us for Decades" Echoing the Palestinian public's sentiment, Palestinian political analyst Majed Abu Diak also voiced concern over the apparent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel. He accused the Saudis of bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. "Saudi Arabia and Israel appear to be in a hurry to normalize their relations," Abu Diak claimed. "The Saudi regime is preparing for Mohammed...

The official PA Wafa news agency reports: Manal Radwan, Saudi Arabia's delegate at the United Nations, pledged on Thursday during a United Nations General Assembly meeting on the situation in the Near East and on the “question of Palestine” that her country will continue to support the Palestinian people in their cause for self-determination and statehood. ...She condemned...

Recently, Egyptian historian Bassam al-Shamma claimed that 70% of the archaeological missions in Egypt are Jewish researchers who "seek to facilitate the smuggling and Judaization of the Egyptian antiquities and to transfer false information about ancient Egypt in their books and research papers published abroad." Yes, the Egyptians are obsessed with the idea that...

The Palestinian Authority, which supposedly is now the single official government in both the West Bank and Gaza, has tried to allow employees who were forced to stop work in 2007 when Hamas took over the various government institutions to return to their former jobs. The employees remained on the PA payroll for the past ten years, paid literally to do nothing, with western...

Let's play: Anti-Zionist or anti-Jewish?

Since we have heard all about the "Jewish Voice for Peace" panel at the New School where celebrated haters of Israel spoke about how much they pretend to hate some kinds of antisemitism, let's play a game. Are these cartoons antisemitic or anti-Israel? It's against settlements, so it muse be anti-Zionist according to JVP, right? It's showing a hareidi Jew representing...

11/29 Links Pt2: Remembering the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East's Jews; Jewish people de-registered – discrimination at the heart of Westminster

From Ian: Remembering the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East's Jews This date is not coincidental. The day after November 29 1947, when the United Nations General Assembly decided to establish a Jewish state in British Mandate Palestine, many Jewish communities in Arab countries immediately began feeling the pressure to leave. There was looting, riots and laws enacted against them and the Zionist movement. The young State of Israel, while fighting...

(photo credit: The Real Jerusalem Streets) Life is full of bumps along the way. These may take the form of tragedies large and small, day-to-day inconveniences, and disappointments, too. In Israel, somehow these wrinkles that appear in the fabric of everyday living are larger than elsewhere. And sometimes larger than life. It may be the heat of the day,...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Men Can't Make Decisions For Women, But Jews Can't Decide What's Antisemitic By Linda Sarsour, women's rights activist The stubborn patriarchy that all but rules our society wants to control women's bodies and what women are allowed to wear, and they...

From Ian: The miracle of Israel lives on 70 years later While much of the public debate is couched in terms of borders and settlements and sovereignty over Jerusalem, the larger truth is that Palestinians have pursued Israel’s destruction with more zeal than they applied to building their own state. While you would never know it from most coverage in the American media,...

I discovered this nearly ten years ago, and it is more relevant today. Palestinian Arabs, especially those who live in the West, like to define themselves as "people of color" so they can pretend to have solidarity with non-white people. This is of course a cynical ploy - they don't care about the rights of others; they are trying to hijack other movements for their own gain. But...

Al Ahram has a fairly stupid article by Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, where he argues that Zionism has failed. As with virtually every Palestinian "thinker," Barghouti defines Zionism as a movement to destroy Palestinians rather than a movement to recreate a nation-state for the Jewish people. Early Zionists had no...

Notorious plane hijacker Leila Khaled has not been allowed to leave Leonardo da Vinci International Airport and was forced to return to Amman, Jordsn yesterday Khaled, a member of the PFLP terror group, spoke at the European Parliament in September, and the backlash was belated but fierce. The Parliament passed a motion not to allow members of known terror organizations...