July 2019 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

07/31 Links Pt2: Where Is the Movement to Boycott Turkey?; How the Publisher of the “Guardian” Helped Bring About the Balfour Declaration; AOC says Palestinians ‘Have No Choice But to Riot’ Against Israel

From Ian: Where Is the Movement to Boycott Turkey? Advocates of academic boycotts of the Jewish state are fond of claiming that they are motivated by a desire to punish Israel for its restrictions on Palestinian universities—in part, writes Jonathan Marks, as a counterargument to those who would point out that their movement seeks specifically to restrict the free exchange...

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two U.S. congresswomen with a penchant for making antisemitic comments and supporting antisemitic measures, are soon to visit Israel. When they arrive, we will have had several weeks' warning. But there will be nothing we can do to stop the two from coming into our country and using the trip to hurt us. This is something we have seen before,...

Today, Israel approved the building of 700 Arab homes in Area C of Judea and Samaria, something that anti-Israel activists have demanded for a long time. Of course, no one is praising Israel for the move. The criticism of Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is more interesting than perhaps he realizes. He said, "the terms A, B and C no longer exist because Israel...

From Ian: PMW: On 17th anniversary of Hebrew University bombing: PA has already paid the murderers over 4.3 million shekels, 6 terrorists, responsible for the death of 9 people, are serving multiple life sentences and have been rewarded by the PA. 17 years ago today a bomb was detonated in the Hebrew University cafeteria in Jerusalem murdering 9 people, including five American...

EoZ posts are banned from @Reddit

This was posted to Reddit by one of its moderators, DomitiusOfMassilia It has come to my attention over the past month that multiple posts and links have been automatically removed without the consent of this sub's moderators or the users themselves. I was able to piece together that Reddit introduced a "Tier" system for removing posts. Due to the significant lack of transparency and guidelines on Reddit's part, I have been forced to...

Every month, the official PA news agency Wafa publishes a list of what it calls "incitement and racism in the Israeli media" as a way to counteract the work of organizations like MEMRI, Palestinian Media Watch and this blog which publicize the most hateful and insane things published in Arabic language media about Jews and Israel. Apparently, they consider anything that...

Al Jazeera reported on Monday: A confidential internal report from the UN's Palestinian refugee agency's ethics office has detailed alleged abuses of authority among the organisation's senior management team. With input from dozens of current and former staff, the 10-page document cites "credible and corroborated reports" that members of an "inner circle" at the top of...

07/30 Links Pt2: Israel Is in the Middle East, Israelis Are Middle Easterners, and Don’t You Forget It; I’m an Israeli settler. This is why I spoke with J Street’s first ‘alternative Birthright’ group.

From Ian: Israel Is in the Middle East, Israelis Are Middle Easterners, and Don’t You Forget It It’s not European. And it doesn’t divide into right and left, religious and secular. Matti Friedman, author of a new book about Mizrahi spies, on why Israel baffles and infuriates Israel is in the Middle East. That may sound like one of the more banal opening sentences to an article,...

An article in Al-Omah, a pan-Arab Sunni news site, puts forward some interesting theories. Apparently, the Iranians have been Zionist from the very beginning. The Ayatollah Khomeini initiated a deal to be fully loyal to the "Zionist project." The way that Iran's mullahs fool the world is by saying they won't fight the Jews until the 13th Imam messianic figure arrives,...

Haaretz reports: A court in Canada ruled on Monday that Israeli wine from settlements must be marked, saying that labelling such products as "made in Israel" is misleading to people who wish to boycott settlement products for political reasons. Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch seems to think this is a human rights issue, somehow: Canada tells Israel it has to stop trying...

From Ian: Coming soon: An opportunity for UNRWA policy change Most observers ignore the UNRWA reality –of five million descendants who dwell in "temporary shelters" financed by a $1.2 billion of donations from 67 nations, with little transparency. What can be done? The UNRWA mandate, debated by the UN General Assembly every five years since 1949, is now up for renewal. The...

Dr. Rosena Allin-Khan is a Labour MP for Tooting and a physician. She recently traveled to Gaza and reported back on the issues she saw with Israel's permit system for patients to leave Gaza. She is obviously not a Zionist and some of the resulting articles have been called out for major inaccuracies. Nevertheless, she is someone who cares deeply about the people of...

A play by award-winning Palestinian playwright Ahmed Masoud named "Obliterated" was scheduled to be performed on August 9th at Amnesty International. The main actress Maxine Peake is famous in England. The free event was sold out. The entire event was a scam, a publicity stunt that was never meant to happen. Over 2500 people who registered for the play, and...

A couple of weeks ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced a major find of an entire city from 9,000 years ago near Jerusalem. Since the city pre-dates Biblical times, it is obvious that this was not a dig that discovered any Jewish objects. I made a humorous tweet about how Israel, which according to academic and professional Israel-hater Nadia Abu el-Haj uses...

07/29 Links Pt2: HRW Chief Refuses to Say Israel Has Right to Exist as Jewish State; Rewarding Palestinian child exploitation: Janna Jihad goes to Congress

From Ian: Head of Human Rights Watch Refuses to Say Israel Has Right to Exist as Jewish State A top official at the prominent NGO Human Rights Watch proved unable to explicitly say Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state in a recent interview with an Israeli media outlet. In conversation with Israel’s Kan broadcaster, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth...

The Rachel Corrie Palestinian Center for Human Rights appears to be one of these NGOs that spring up in the Palestinian territories seeking funds from Europe to bash Israel. The goals and objectives of the Rachel Corrie Palestinian Center for Human Rights and the Pursuit of International Justice are that the values of dignity and freedom, the rule of international...

From AP: The Israeli military has installed the face scanners as part a multi-million dollar upgrade of the Qalandiya crossing that now allows Palestinians from the West Bank with work permits to zip through with relative ease.But while the high-tech upgrades may have eased entry for Palestinians going to Israel for work, critics say they are a sign of the ossification...

From Ian: Top UNRWA officials accused of sexual misconduct, other ‘serious ethical abuses’ An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organization faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts. The allegations included in the confidential report by the agency’s...

By Daled Amos In a recent post, Elder of Ziyon pointed out an ignored truth about the campaign to boycott Israel: BDS isn't about boycotts. It is about turning Israel into a pariah state. Even BDSers admit that they choose their targets of boycott for maximum leverage and publicity, even as they use Israeli products themselves. The boycotts are indeed a sideshow to...