July 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, July 31, 2020

07/31 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The progressive world: An antechamber to evil; In condemning antisemitism, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in a league of his own

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The progressive world: An antechamber to evil That enduring moral blindness means the progressive world is fated to replicate its role as the antechamber to evil. Today, that's why it supports the anti-white racists of Black Lives Matter. It's why the universities – the supposed crucibles of reason – have turned into cauldrons of intimidation and...

An article in the New Socialist crystallizes the discomfort that many socialist Jews have had with the Twitter 48 hour boycott campaign – by claiming that targeting a Black antisemite is actually racist: Recent stories, and much longer-run patterns of discourse, have seen many people, including some Jews, attempting to “ethnicise” antisemitism. To construct it as a peculiarly...

A poster I made after a comment in Facebook by Rob Levy during my Twitter boycott…...

From Ian: GOP Lawmaker Calls on Trump to Designate Top Palestinian Official as Terror Sponsor A US congressman with a track record of countering terrorism sponsored by the Palestinian Authority (PA) has called on President Donald Trump to blacklist a leading PA official. In a letter to Trump on Thursday, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) urged Trump to designate the PA’s Commission...

By Daled Amos Intersectionality has been a big thing for years now, basing itself on the solidarity of various minorities against their oppression that crosses the lines of race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Uniting all minorities, that is, except for Jews who refuse to renounce Israel. But historically, it's not as if we needed to...

The Palestinian Authority’s refusal to cooperate with Israel, ostensibly because of “annexation” plans that have not happened, is only hurting Palestinians. Which means the media is not reporting on the repercussions for fear of upsetting the narrative that Palestinian suffering comes from Israel alone. A close reading of the UN’s OCHA-OPT reports for the last two months...

The Supreme Leader of Iran tweeted his support for Black Lives Matter: Yes, Khamanei pretends that Iran has no police brutality. Yet only last year, Iranian police killed as many as 1500 protesters. But, who’s counting? As far as Iran’s supposed dedication to equal right goes, this week it yet again published an article in the government news site Mehr News that...

07/30 Links Pt2: Can’t get cancelled for anti-Semitism, but can for philosemitism; UN Expresses ‘Dismay’ at Antisemitic Statements by Islamic Relief Leader; Almost 1,000 Jews visit Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av; some pray, wave Israel flag

From Ian: Can’t get cancelled for anti-Semitism, but can for philosemitism The organizations conducting their unauthorized battles against anti-Semitism have conflated prejudice with violence. They have no clue how to fight the former and no interest in fighting the latter. Prejudice isn’t fought with Holocaust museum tours, but with dignity. The first line of defense against...

Which is worse: Israeli prison or your college dorm?

Liran Levi reports for Walla News. He tweeted a video from Ofer Prison, presumably from an illegal mobile phone, that ended up on TikTok: The person with the grapes is Akram Hamed, the Fatah spokesman for the prison. Now, which looks worse - this prison or your college dorm? (h/t Yoel) 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 Is...

Asa Winstanley calls himself an "investigative journalist" for Electronic Intifada. But of course he is nothing of the kind - he is an anti-Israel propagandist. This morning, he tweeted: Einat Wilf's tweet referred to a Haaretz article from 2018 about how the Zionist population of Israel before 1948 closely mirrored the areas where Jews had drained the swamps and killed...

From Ian: For Israel, Not Winning is Losing It used to be said that Israel required a strategic edge to survive in the Middle East, and that is why it invested in the greatest armory and technology. Nevertheless, none of this is the slightest bit relevant if there is never any will to use it. To change the current paradigm, Israel must regain a semblance of deterrence. To...

There has already been a lot written about Seth Rogen's interview on Marc Maron’s podcast, but I want to focus on a section that isn't getting as much attention: I don’t understand. To me it just seems very, like an antiquated thought process. Like, if it is for religious reasons, I don’t agree with it because I think religion is silly. If it is truly for the preservation...

The 16th Kina of Tisha B'Av refers to the tragic story of the Romans, after destroying the Temple, filled up a ship with 400 Jewish boys and girls who would be forced to become prostitutes in Rome. The children all chose to throw themselves overboard to drown rather than be subjected to that. The commentary I am reading now by Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik said that there...

Have an easy and meaningful fast

I will not be blogging or tweeting Wednesday night and Thursday until after 1 PM EDT in observance of Tisha B'Av. May this be the last year that Tisha B'Av is a fast day. 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: Matti Friedman: Israel Was Ground Zero for the New Woke Religion Western ideologies generally include a parable about villainous Jews. Because this is a set of ideas that sees itself as a political critique, the parable doesn’t come, as past versions have, from Scripture (in the case of Christianity), or from economic theory (as it did in Marxism), or pseudo-scientific...

Vic Rosenthal's weekly column On Monday there was a “security incident” on our northern border. I am not going to try to explain it, because I have no idea of what actually happened. First reports were that Hezbollah fighters had crossed the border in the Shebaa Farms area at the foot of Har Dov, and fired an antitank missile at a Merkava tank. The missile was said to...