July 2018 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

07/31 Links Pt2: Carter Blocked Begin’s Citizenship Offer to Palestinians; Indy promotes Noam Chomsky’s charge on “Israeli intervention in US elections”; WikiLeaks made antisemitic remarks in private chats

From Ian: Carter Administration Blocked Begin’s Citizenship Offer to Palestinians Commemorating nearly 40 years since United States President Jimmy Carter initiated the negotiations that led to Israel’s surrender of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, the Center for Israel Education is incrementally releasing sensitive memoranda from the Carter administration archives detailing...

From Al Jazeera: Currently, the blockaded strip suffers from a 44 percent unemployment rate. Last Wednesday, the agency fired a further 113 employees, all because of the United States' 80 percent budget cut. Furthermore, UNRWA announced the contracts of 1,000 of its employees in the Gaza Strip - Abu Hashim among them - will not have their contracts renewed. This includes...

Netflix giving racist, antisemitic Farrakhan a platform

From Twitter: On August 1st, watch the premiere of my music documentary “My Life’s Journey Through Music” on @netflix.https://t.co/gxZwHNPhkI #LetsChangeTheWorld pic.twitter.com/t7UHZvDsQE — MINISTER FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) July 31, 2018 This is pretty outrageous. I cannot imagine Netflix giving a platform to Richard Spencer - why do they give one to Farrakhan? We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be...

From Ian: More horror than heroism: Ahed Tamimi My sweet-natured daughter Malki, brimming with empathy and generosity toward others, always with a smile on her face, was 15 when she was murdered in the Sbarro pizzeria massacre 17 years ago this week. The experience of losing her, of trying to re-balance my life and my family’s and of trying to make sense of the reactions...

There was a time when Social Media was considered a boon to organizing mass protests. This culminated in the Arab Spring in general and in Egypt in particular with the protests in Tahrir Square in 2011. Protests in Tahrir Square in 2011. Credit: Mona Sosh Wael Ghonim, a Google employee at the time, was one of the administrators of the Facebook page, "We are all Khaled...

Dr. Dana El Kurd, who received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Texas, responded to a tweet: You have no understanding of history or the long-term impacts of Israel then. Assad is a monster today, but Israel's presence has destabilized the entire Middle East since its inception. Terrorism, ethnic cleansing, wiping out entire cities & camps - you...

Palestinian Authority, which has been strangling Gaza, takes credit for its reconstruction

I cannot recall an official government video as transparently false and cynical as this one. The Palestinian Authority issued a statement and video called "Office of the Prime Minister - Government Achievements in the Gaza Reconstruction Profile, 29 July 2018." It looks at the rebuilding of Gaza done by international NGOs - and takes credit for it. Keep in mind that the PA has been actively working to hurt ordinary Gazans over the past year...

07/30 Links Pt2: Facebook Still Allows Anti-Semitic, Holocaust-Denying Posts; Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Existential Threat’; Here’s how Birthright guides talk about the Palestinians

From Ian: Report: Facebook Still Allows Anti-Semitic, Holocaust-Denying Posts The Holocaust was a lie, Anne Frank’s diary was a fake, and Jews are barbaric and unsanitary: All those are posts that are still available on Facebook despite being reported to the social media giant. According to an investigation by the British Times, “scores of examples of material designed to...

UNRWA keeps saying free education paid for by the world is a human right

I received this fundraising email from UNRWA USA: Due to the US government's holding back of $300 million to UNRWA, as of this week UNRWA has been forced to cut jobs in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem).UNRWA is a lifeline for 5 million Palestine refugees, providing food, healthcare, education, and jobs. In fact, 99% of UNRWA's doctors, teachers, and other staff, are refugees themselves.Despite relentless efforts to attain...

(In case you missed it, here are Parts 1 and Parts 2 of this series.) Continuing the discussion of international law from where we left off, it’s easy to criticize and even condemn multi-national institutions, even the most successful of them. For example, today historians agree that NATO represents one of the most successful political and military alliances in...

From Ian: The ‘Games’ Palestinian Children Play We’re always being told that there is a significant difference between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Supposedly, the PA is “moderate” while Hamas is “extremist.” But the PA’s public endorsement this week of the Gaza kite terrorists makes it clear that there is no meaningful difference between it and Hamas at all. Here...

Here are two interesting viewpoints on the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, from non-Jewish Israelis. One is from a Maronite Christian who lives in Israel, in an article translated from Israel Hayom: The modern State of Lebanon was established by Maronite Christians, as a shelter for them and other persecuted Christian communities in the Middle...

Omri Boehm, a philosopher who we have written about before, once again uses the New York Times to advance an anti-Israel argument which would receive a failing grade from any real philosophy class. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the new legislation simply “determined in law the founding principle of our existence.” In fact, its primary function is to build...

Palestinian Arabs are experts at hurting themselves, both literally and figuratively, and then blaming Israel for their pain. A literal example comes from yesterday, when two PFLP terrorists blew themselves up, but Arabic media claimed that Israel killed them. This has happened too many times to count - errant Hamas rockets killing Gaza children have been blamed on Israel...

Even a Lebanese underwater coral reef park is anti-Israel

On Friday, residents of Sidon, Lebanon, saw old tanks being placed underwater near the shore. The goal is the create an underwater ark for divers, where the tanks can anchor a coral reef. "This will be a paradise for divers and a place where we can develop underwater life," Kamel Kozbar, of Friends of the Coast of Sidon, told AFP. He hopes seaweed will soon cover the...

From Ian: Boat trying to break Gaza blockade seized by Israeli navy The Israeli Navy on Sunday stopped a boat that was trying to break the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip and started to tow the vessel to the port in Ashdod. The “Freedom Flotilla” group said that the boat had been “seized” and that the ship had received a warning from the navy prior to the interception. According...

StandWithUs (SWU) is among the best pro-Israel organizations and resources available to the diaspora Jewish community. I hope that I will be excused for my bias - given that SWU stood with me during the Reem's Cafe litigation in Oakland - but these guys tread a razor's edge with steady feet and sometimes a little acknowledgment of the obvious...