December 2019 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

12/31 Links Pt2: Palestinian NGOs Reject European Aid, Due to Refusal to Renounce Terror Ties; New Israeli Scholarship Shows That an Alleged 1948 Massacre Never Happened

From Ian: Palestinian NGOs Reject European Aid, Due to Refusal to Renounce Terror Ties Over 100 Palestinian NGOs have refused to sign an EU grant request because it demands that funds cannot be handed over to terrorist groups. The director of the BDS organization Al-Haq, Shawan Jabarin, told The New Arab, “We demanded to include conditions stipulating that we do not have...

News that the media missed: Israel installs system to allow 12,000 Palestinian workers to speed through Tulkarem crossing daily

We hear horror stories about how demeaning and time consuming it is for Palestinian workers to cross into Israel. Yet when Israel fixes the problem, the media suddenly loses interest in reporting the story. 10 new SpeedGates were recently installed at the Ephraim Gate (Tulkarem) Crossing. More than 12,000 residents pass through the crossing from the West Bank each day and travelers can already feel a significant improvement in transit conditions...

From Ian: Anti-Semitism Is a Threat to Western Civilization Itself On Saturday night, a man burst into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY, where a Hanukkah party was taking place, and began stabbing people with a machete. In North London, that same night, the walls of a synagogue and several shops were spray-painted with anti-Semitic slogans. Daniel Johnson comments on both incidents: The...

Ken Roth, the head of Human Rights Watch, tweets more that President Trump does. Yet I cannot find any tweets where he denounces antisemitism that cannot be blamed on white nationalists. Essentially, he denies that any other sort of antisemitism exists. The one tweet that shows this more than any other was written in 2018: Of 1,453 anti-Semitic crimes in Germany in...

PA president Mahmoud Abbas has emphasized that he will not allow any Israeli or Western moves to limit the salaries he pays terrorists, whom he calls "martyrs and prisoners." Abbas said that if only penny remains in his budget, he will spend it on terrorists and their families. He said that he considers this issue a red line that he will not allow any change to. The funny...

In 2014, after Israel refused to release a final batch of prisoners unless the PLO agreed to extend peace negotiations, the PLO responded by violating an agreement with Israel that it wouldn't sign international conventions join international bodies. In a very short time, the PLO signed the following conventions, without reservations: The Fourth Geneva Conventions of 12...

12/30 Links Pt2: The ICC has some nerve to target Israel; Prosecutors find anti-Semitic materials on Monsey suspect’s phone, journals; After US attacks Iranian-backed militias, is America back in the game?

From Ian: Josh Hammer: The ICC has some nerve to target Israel Bensouda’s prosecution is utterly lawless. As a political matter, the West must push back against this encroachment on the sovereignty of a democratic nation-state. For starters, the ICC is structurally biased against Israel. As international-law expert Eugene Kontorovich noted when the Palestinian Authority...

The Nidal Al-Amoudi brigades of Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades held a parade in Gaza to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the first Fatah terror attack. About ten years ago, Mahmoud Abbas claimed he dismantled all the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades military groups. He lied. There were a few teen gawkers at the parade, based on the photos, and no one else. We...

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Fight the hate together The shooting incident at the kosher New Jersey supermarket on December 10 – in which two ultra-Orthodox Jews were killed along with a non-Jewish employee and a policeman – was another dreadful reminder that the situation is growing out of control. The fatal attacks on worshipers in synagogues in Pittsburgh last year and Poway...

Jordanian and Saudi Girls Gone Wild!

Jordanians are transfixed by a video widely circulating of a man and woman having sex - or perhaps only kissing - in a Mitsubishi Lancer car. There are dozens of articles about it today. Apparently the man has a beard and the woman is veiled. People are complaining to the police, who are warning people not to film and spread such videos. Rumors are that the couple have left Jordan and that the car was not theirs. A spokesman for the Public Security...

Mirasimiz is a Turkish NGO that operates in Jerusalem, and calls itself the Association for the Preservation of Ottoman Heritage in and Around Jerusalem. According to an article in Daily Sabah about it last year, their spokesperson said, "All the activities carried out by Mirasımız are in accordance with Israeli laws and regulations. The efforts of the waqf focus on protecting...

Fighting antisemitism will take a multi-pronged approach of both tactical and strategic approaches. From a tactical point of view, Jews need to be protected, now. This means more police patrols in Jewish neighborhoods, more physical protections around synagogues and Jewish schools. This will be a challenge for synagogues that specialize in outreach like Chabad and...

Chanukah music video night 8: Disney Junior Happy Hanukkah 🕎 Puppy Dog Pals

Another new Disney Chanukah song for the year. Not the greatest but welcome! 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 JPost: The Antiquities Authority announced Sunday that a juglet full of rare 1,200-year-old gold coins was discovered in an excavation in Yavne just before the festival.As revealed by IAA coin expert Robert Kool, the coins date back to the early Abbasid Period, 9th century CE. The period marked the beginning of a golden age for the Muslim empire, with the Abbasid...

From Ian: Saturday Night Terror At Rabbi Rottenburg’s Shul, 15 Transported To Hospital, Suspect In Custody Multiple people were stabbed Saturday night in a synagogue. According to reports, a black male entered the home of Rabbi Rottenburg, who has a Shul in the Forshay neighborhood of Monsey. There was a Chanukah party going on in the home. The man, whose face was covered...

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the stabbing of 5 Orthodox Jews in Monsey. But even though this attack happened in Monsey, it is part of a growing and increasingly alarming pattern inside New York City. And no one expects these attacks to stop soon. One reason for the pessimism is the failure by the media, elected officials and social media 'celebrities'...

Ahlam Tamimi is the Hamas terrorist responsible for the murder of 15 including 7 children in a Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem who is now living a free - and even celebrity - life in Jordan. The US has been trying to extradite her, and Jordan has refused, even though other wanted people have been extradited from Jordan to the US. Now there may be another way to pressure Jordan. From...

I am seeing people who usually blame all antisemitism on white nationalists saying they are horrified about the machete attack on religious Jews in Monsey, NY Saturday night. But look what they don't say: None of them say that the attackers, here and in most of the other incidents over the past week, were black. Mentioning that fact is Kryptonite. It is...

12/28 Links: Israel’s James Bond - How an Iraqi-born Jew became an Israeli hero; FBI: Jews were victims in 60% of religiously motivated hate crimes in 2018; Why Are Academics Ignoring Iran’s Colonialism?

From Ian: Israel’s James Bond - How an Iraqi-born Jew became an Israeli hero In fact, out of an estimated 137,000 Iraqi Jews, Ben-Porat’s leadership of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah resulted in about 130,000 making their way to Israel. An estimated 111,000 came by air, the rest by way of Iran. Roughly 7,000 Jews chose to remain, hoping to protect businesses and assets. Today,...

Chanukah music video night 7: Kosha Dillz - Schmoozin' + 8 Nights - Pinny Schachter

Chanukah is only a peripheral part of this video, but it is nicely done. BONUS: 8 Nights by Pinny Schachter 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...

12/27 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: A Boris Bear Hug Against British Antisemitism; BBC and Sky News demonise Israel for Christmas; Assault on 2 Young Jewish Boys Among 4 Antisemitic Attacks in Nyc in 48 Hrs

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: A Boris Bear Hug Against British Antisemitism Through such ostensible even-handedness, the British government has been supporting for years a Palestinian agenda that is predicated on the destruction of Israel. And that’s why the menace of antisemitism in Britain extends far more widely and deeply than Corbyn’s Labour Party. A recent poll of the...