May 2018 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, May 31, 2018

05/31 Links Pt2: A Radical Romance with the Palestinians; The Dark Side of Roger Waters: A Review of Wish You Weren’t Here; French-Muslim website tweets ‘hit list’ featuring famous Jews

From Ian: A Radical Romance with the Palestinians A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America. By Keith P. Feldman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 312 pp. $24.95, paper. In August 2014, protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, after police killed Michael Brown, Jr., an African American teenager who had stolen some cigars. Meanwhile in Israel,...

Egypt is in no hurry to repair its electric lines to Gaza

Palestine Today reports about how electricity from Israel is no longer being set to Gaza (without mentioning that it was Hamas and Islamic Jihad rocket fire that caused the lines to go down to begin with.) The article also mentions that the "Egyptian lines are still idle." It has been nearly a year Egypt sent electricity to Gaza. While their contribution was modest, right now it would have been very useful to have the extra 16 megawatts. I'm not...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column Here it is Wednesday midday, and some 180 mortar shells and rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza in the last 48 hours, including rockets that reached farther north than any since 2014. The IDF responded in the usual way, bombarding military targets in the Strip that Hamas and Islamic Jihad personnel had evacuated. At this...

From Ian: NY Post Editorial: Who’s really behind the latest attacks on Israel Both Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad are inspired by and closely coordinate with Tehran. And the mullahs are looking for ways to recover their mojo after President Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal. This month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired 32 rockets from Syria toward the Israeli-controlled...

The US State Department, in its annual human rights report, says in its section on Algeria: In August the private newspaper, Echourouk El Youmi published a cartoon depicting a Jewish man with a Star of David on his sleeve clutching the surface of a globe, appearing to promote stereotypes of Jewish world domination. Also in August, Echourouk El Youmi published an article...

The Arab Organization of Human Rights issues what appear to be weekly press statements, usually condemning Israel for something or other. This week was no different. But buried within the items calling on the ICC to prosecute Israel and for the world to boycott Israel one sees this: The International Legal and Communication Committee calls on the Palestinian President...

An online poll at Ma'an Arabic asked its Palestinian readers who the most dangerous and most hostile leaders are towards their cause. Nearly 85% said that Arab leaders "who were striving to normalize with the occupation" are the most dangerous and hostile ones, with the remaining 15% divided in their anger at Trump and "the government of settlers and Zionist extremists." This...

05/30 Links Pt2: Survivors to appeal to have Farhud seen as a Nazi event; Haaretz’s Strange Tale About ‘Spying’ on Linda Sarsour; UK poll: 23% ‘unwilling’ to have a Jew in the family

From Ian: Survivors to appeal to have Farhud seen as a Nazi event Survivors of the Farhud pogrom in Iraq are to appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court after their failure in the lower courts to have the 1941 pogrom recognised as a Nazi-inspired event, writes Ofer Aderet in Haaretz. The judge seems to fear that such an indictment would let Arabs 'off the hook' for antisemitism....

He was only 20 when the heavy concrete or marble slab was dropped from above, ending his life. Three stories up, a young Arab male flexed his hands. He’d held that slab for five full minutes, studying the situation, making sure his aim was true. He’d developed a cramp. But he’d completed his mission, born of hatred nursed for years. He’d dropped the slab. Seen it connect. Everything that...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Oakland, May 20 - Activists accustomed to co-opting every popular issue or cause for anti-Israel advocacy purposes have admitted hitting a metaphorical wall in attempting to do the same with the championship basketball series between the Golden State...

From Ian: Caroline Glick: There is No Peace Plan That Would Satisfy Palestinians Two recent Palestinian developments show that peace plans, no matter how well-intentioned, are both doomed to fail and counterproductive. First, there are Hamas’s concerted efforts to swarm Gaza’s border with Israel. Since late March, Hamas has massed terrorists interspersed with civilians along...

Here is a great example of how anti-Israel academics can get their propaganda spread by pretending to write about something altogether different. Annabelle Lukin is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Macquarie University. She has decided to spread her hate under the pretext of critiquing the verb usage on stories from Gaza as not being adequately pro-Israel. The recent...

Here is a poster going around Palestinian media of students who were mowed down in the prime of their lives by evil Israelis so they couldn't attend final exams. One Gazan translated this propaganda to English: Every single one of these students were associated with terror groups. Details of the first two can be seen in the most recent report by the Meir Amit...

From AFP: Tickets for an Israel-Argentina friendly in Jerusalem next month with Barcelona star Lionel Messi expected in the line-up sold out within 20 minutes, the Israeli company handling sales said.The Le'an agency said on its website that nearly 100,000 fans applied for 20,000 tickets when they went on general sale Sunday evening."No sporting event has ever caused...

Palestinian "academic" to Israelis: "May you rot in hell along with your Jewish state"

From the Facebook page of Rima Najjar, an American-educated retired professor of English literature at Al-Quds University now living in Bloomington, Indiana. Can't you feel the love? This is the kind of peace that the BDSers and "moderate" Palestinians want. A desire for all Jews in Israel to rot in hell. And, no, she isn't antisemitic in the least. She just believes...

From Ian: France Is Hypocritical on Israel, the U.S., and ‘International Law’ Along with several other European countries, France has strongly opposed America’s decision to relocate its embassy to Israel’s capital. To support its position, Paris has claimed, on the basis of various UN resolutions, that international law militates against recognizing Jerusalem as the capital...

A Gaza newspaper shows this interesting image: The article says that "a group of rabbis and settlers" took a group of Chinese tourists through the Temple Mount area, describing where the Temple stood. According to the article, "this is the first time that a foreign delegation has participated in breaking into the Aqsa Mosque." Obviously there are foreign tourists...

Here's one of the more cynical PR moves by the anti-Israel crowd: Activists Monday laid out 4,500 pairs of shoes in front of the Council of the European Union in Brussels to represent every person killed in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over the last decade. Members of the activist group Avaaz covered Jean Rey Square with shoes, donated by citizens across Europe over...