April 2019 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

04/30 Links Pt2: Ending the Myth of the Poor Terrorist; From Zion to San Remo and Beyond; What Does it Mean to be Pro-Israel in 2019?

From Ian: Ending the Myth of the Poor Terrorist However, the latest research raises some new questions about the comprehensiveness of Bueno de Mesquita’s model. In 2015, a new Palestinian terrorist campaign erupted. The attacks were substantially different than previous waves of Palestinian violence as the assailants typically worked alone instead of within a greater terrorist group. Because of this individualistic terrorist threat, the campaign...

Interview with Kasim Hafeez part 3: A discussion of the Arab world and Israel

Here is part 3 of my interview with extremist-turned-Zionist Kasim Hafeez in Tel Aviv last month. In this part we discuss the Arab world's attitudes towards Israel and the Palestinians. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israe...

"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846" by James Richardson, includes an anecdote that explains a lot of the hate from the Arab world towards Israel today. My turjeman is surprised we Christians receive the books of the Jews as sacred and inspired, and so are many other people. They are quite astonished when I tell them that Christians...

From Ian: Rabbi Goldstein: A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew. I Will Never Back Down. I do not know why God spared my life in my Poway synagogue. All I can do is make this borrowed time matter. From here on in I am going to be more brazen. I am going to be even more proud about walking down the street wearing my tzitzit and kippah, acknowledging God’s presence....

Al Resalah reports that Mahmoud Abbas is bracing for the "Deal of the Century" and how to combat it. It says that he is preparing for the collapse of the Palestinian Authority. It also says that Abbas is planning to spend more time outside Ramallah and at his huge house near Amman so he can coordinate better with Jordan's King Abdullah. Abbas has a huge house in Jordan?...

Abdul Hamid al-Hakim, the director of the Middle East Center for Strategic Studies in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has put out a series of tweets that are - for the Arab world - startlingly philo-semitic. A video about two Jewish brothers from Iraq who were major songwriters there prompted him to say: Iraqi-Israeli pop star Dudu Tassa, whose grandfather & great-uncle...

From Students Supporting Israel, Columbia: A few weeks ago, SSI Columbia reached out to SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) and JVP (Jewish Voice for Peace) with great hope and expectations of finally doing something productive about the long-debated issue of holding civil and constructive discussion on campus regarding the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. We asked...

04/29 Links Pt2: Bret Stephens: A Despicable Cartoon in The Times; Israeli UN envoy urges NY Times to punish those behind anti-Semitic cartoon; Rashida Tlaib’s brother praises terrorists

From Ian: Bret Stephens: A Despicable Cartoon in The Times The paper of record needs to reflect deeply on how it came to publish anti-Semitic propaganda. On Thursday the opinion pages of the New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of anti-Semitism. Except that the Times wasn't explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it in the form of a cartoon...

I don't know how much traction this can get, but it is a very interesting initiative in Australia. From The Spectator Australia: The designation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a terrorist organisation would have major implications for Australia’s foreign policy and foreign aid applicable to the Middle East. It would throw into disarray a recently adopted Labor...

Middle Eastern Studies recently published an interesting paper called "The star of David in a cedar tree: Jewish students and Zionism at the American University of Beirut (1908–1948)" by Caroline Kahlenberg. Through it we learn that the first regular female graduate from AUB was Sara Levy, from Palestine: She was at AUB at the same time as two other Jewish women, Fortune...

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: The Palestinians' Own Goals "We reject normalization and adopt the approach of resistance until the liberation of the entire Palestinian territory." — Statement rejecting job offers, issued by Progressive Democratic Student Pole, affiliated with the radical PLO group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). "Resistance" is a term...

Al Resalah has an article about how Israel "exploits Jewish holidays to attack the Palestinians." Many Jews on vacation during Passover like to visit Biblical sites. These visits are described in the article as a fulfillment of Netanyahu's promise to annex the territories, even though this happens every year. Ghassan Daghlas, the man that the Palestinian Authority...

Jordanian newspaper Al Ghad has an explicitly antisemitic article by Jihad al Mansi that compares Palestinians to Jesus for being victims of Jewish aggression. There in Jerusalem, yes, in Palestinian Jerusalem, almost two thousand years ago, extremist Jews tortured Jesus Christ, indulged in his torture, and rejected the message of peace he had given, called for, and sought...

On Friday, the leaders of various Gaza terrorist organizations met to discuss how to counter the expected "Deal of the Century." The head of Hamas' "political bureau" Ismail Haniyeh said he is ready to meet with PA president Mahmoud Abbas any time to fix the decade-long rift between the two groups in order to put up a united front against the plan. Islamic Jihad official...

Interview with Kasim Hafeez, part 2

Here is part 2 of my video interview of Kasim Hafeez, Islamic extremist turned Christian Zionist, in Tel Aviv last month. We discuss Islam in more detail, contrast it with Judaism, and talk about possible ways it could be reformed...in theory. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israe...

From Ian: By its own standards, the New York Times deserves blame for the Poway synagogue shooting Does anyone else remember when a New York Times editorial blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords because of a bulls-eye on a map? The New York Times published a hideous, obviously anti-Semitic cartoon the day before a gunman entered a Chabad synagogue in suburban...

The antisemitic New York Times cartoon positioned Netanyahu as a dachshund, which is not the normal dog one would associate with being a seeing eye dog. But that breed has often been used in political cartoons to refer to Germany. In World War I, the dachshund was often used as a stand-in for Germany: This political cartoon in Punch used the specific idea of...

The International Edition of the New York Times published this editorial cartoon on Thursday: Bibi Netanyahu, with a large Star of David around his neck, is a seeing eye dog leading a blind Donald Trump. This image trades in the classic antisemitic tropes of the Jew as a dog, of Jews secretly controlling the US, as this Serbian antisemitic poster from the 1940s shows...