March 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

03/31 Links Pt2: Caroline B. Glick: Israeli sovereignty and Gantz's bad faith; NY Gov. Cuomo renames legislation to honor deceased Monsey stabbing victim

From Ian: Caroline B. Glick: Israeli sovereignty and Gantz's bad faith The coalition talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz are being held behind closed doors. A lot of contradictory information is being leaked about the issues on the table and about the form of the deal for a unity government being hammered out. But all...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that Israeli jets targeted the Al-Shayrat airbase in Homs with more than eight missiles. An explosion was heard believed to be caused by anti-aircraft defenses while intercepting these strikes. Syria's news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying that "at 20:25, Israeli warplanes over Lebanon launched a group of...

On Sunday, after I noted that as of Friday the two New Jersey towns with the highest religious Jewish populations also had the highest number of coronavirus cases, I tweeted that I was very concerned about what would happen in Lakewood this week: While the vast majority of religious Jews in Lakewood have been taking the social distancing guidelines seriously, there have...

(This post is the top one on my site today, scroll down for other articles) During the current pandemic I've been working harder than ever to get timely, original information out to you. Besides the usual array of articles that you won't find anywhere else, I've been working overtime to make posters, videos, webcasts, and cartoons. I've been fighting the lies from the anti-Israel...

From Ian: ‘Science will conquer this’: Inside the race for a coronavirus treatment In a small lab on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professor Shy Arkin and his team of three are “throwing chemicals” at some of the proteins that constitute the coronavirus, hoping that one or more of them will stick. Or at least that’s the kind of non-scientific...

I just found this 2018 report from the UN that describes the laws that discriminate against and hurt women under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. I do not remember a single news article about this report when it was released. The taboo against saying anything bad about Palestinian rule is very deep - there are more international journalists in Israel and the territories...

The BDS Movement is clearly not happy about the coronavirus pandemic. Not because it has the potential to kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. Of course not. Their concern is that the pandemic is distracting the world from what is really important: hating Israel, the great moral imperative of our time. So they have set up a webinar, during the month of...

The New York Times has an article about how countries are restricting freedom in the times of the pandemic - and what it says about Israel is quite inaccurate. "Israel’s prime minister has shut down courts and begun an intrusive surveillance of citizens." In reality, Israeli courts have not been shut down. The Justice Minister together with the Courts Administration...

03/30 Links Pt2: Coronavirus Fight Should Bring Us All Together, Not Divide Us by Promoting Hatred; How the Coronavirus Pandemic Resurrected the Nation-State

From Ian: Ronald Lauder: Coronavirus Fight Should Bring Us All Together, Not Divide Us by Promoting Hatred In frightening and uncertain times - like those we are facing now with the coronavirus - some people all too often and dangerously look for and unjustly blame scapegoats. Holding Asian-Americans responsible for the coronavirus merely because it originated in China is...

The pandemic gives us a chance to highlight one of the most ridiculous demands by BDS (and by many Palestinians and Arabs themselves) against "normalization" with Israel. In order to fight the coronavirus, everyone has to work together. But working together with Israel violates one of the core BDS principles, of being against "normalization" with Israel. By BDS' definition,...

The current pandemic has reduced the number of terror attacks and riots in Israel and the territories to nearly zero. In fact, today is "Land Day," a major event that is usually marked with mass anti-Israel rallies, and this year the Palestinians can do virtually nothing. Hamas, which is built on a culture of glorifying death and "martyrs," has very little to talk about...

From Ian: Man stabbed in Monsey Hanukkah attack succumbs to wounds A man seriously wounded in a Hanukkah attack on a Jewish gathering in Monsey, New York, has died, three months after the stabbing rampage. Josef Neumann, 72, succumbed to wounds sustained during the December 29 machete assault, a local Jewish group said Sunday. “We are sad to inform you that Yosef Neumann,...

Rabbi Pinni Dunner recounts a story from Rabbi YY Jacobson, a famous inspirational speaker who grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn: “A few weeks ago, I led a workshop for single mothers, and at the end of the session, I took questions from the women and encouraged them to ask any question that was on their mind. One of the ladies put her hand up, and this is what...

Bernie Sanders, who has surrounded himself with anti-Israel aides, naturally doesn't know anything about Israel beyond what his aides tell him. Which is why he parroted the talking points of rabid Israel-haters in a tweet on Sunday: Palestinians in Gaza already faced hardship under a blockade. Now they're dealing with the coronavirus.My Senate colleagues and I call on...

Two news stories in Palestinian media seem s little too coincidental. On Friday morning, Palestinian police arrested a journalist who broadcast live from Hebron. I do not know what he said, but the police officials said that he "talked about the coronavirus in a manner that spread terror and fear among citizens in Hebron." The Palestinian electronic crime unit has been following...

Newest blood libel: Despicable Palestinian PM accuses IDF of purposefully spreading #Covid19

We are back to the Dark Ages. They used to accuse Jews of spreading the plague by poisoning the wells. Now they are saying that Jews are spreading the plague more directly. From YNet: Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Sunday accused IDF soldiers of deliberately spreading the novel coronavirus among the West Bank's Palestinian population.In the...

I've been making posters to counter the lies from the hate-Israel crowd, but they would be far more effective if they are used as replies to the hashtags and libels that claim that Israel limits medicine and humanitarian aid to gaza. So, use these liberally. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate...

A tweet from Sari Bashi of Gisha, formerly of Human Rights Watch, retweeted by Ken Roth, shows yet again the anti-Israel bias of the organization. What needs to be compared isn't the total population of Israelis and Palestinians, but the number of people stricken with coronavirus. After all, healthy people clearly don't need ventilators. So let's look at the...

From Ian: Third Israeli dies Sunday - 15 coronavirus victims Three Israelis died of cornoavirus on Sunday, bringing the total number of victims to 15. The most recent victim is an 84-year-old woman who was being treated at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The two previous victims were in their 90s. The 14th victim is a 90-year-old woman who had been hospitalized...

In both Jordan and Syria, the government decided it was somehow better to create its own distribution channel for bread rather than let bakeries remain open. The result? Long lines and crowds of people jostling to get limited supplies - increasing the chances for more infection. In Jordan: Days after a total curfew went into effect, people clamored to receive bread distributions...

The Daily Mail has a textbook case of media bias. In an article this morning by Ian Gallagher, chief reporter of the newspaper, it says: Prince Harry faces a backlash over controversial plans to invite injured Israeli soldiers to compete at his Invictus Games. Israel is under investigation for alleged war crimes in the Palestinian Territories and has never previously...