August 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, August 31, 2020

08/31 Links Pt2: Jonathan Tobin: Why they scrawl ‘Free Palestine’ on synagogues; Melanie Phillips: The free world's craven and hypocritical fifth column

From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Why they scrawl ‘Free Palestine’ on synagogues The impulse to spray paint “Free Palestine” on Jewish sites is an injustice not just because it is vandalism, but also because the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has nothing to with a synagogue—and certainly not one on in the Midwestern United States. Blaming American Jews for the grievances...

The Hamas-linked Palestinian Information Center "reports":A Palestinian shepherd survived on Sunday evening when a Jewish settler rammed his car into a herd of sheep in an area near Yatta town in southern al-Khalil, south of the occupied West Bank.The shepherd, Ayed al-Shawahin, said that a settler from the illegal settlement of Ma’on accelerated his car and tried to run him...

In Palestine reports:Normalisation of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could have significant impacts on the sensitive status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, a report by Israeli NGO Terrestrial Jerusalem has warned.The report challenged the wording in reference to Al-Aqsa in a joint statement by US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

From Ian: Netanyahu: We have invited the UAE delegation to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday evening that Israel invited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) delegation to Israel to be "welcomed on a red carpet, as well," following the arrival of the Israeli and US delegations in Abu Dhabi. Israel will one day be recognized and make peace with the rest of...

Of Course Anti-Zionism is Antisemitic (American Zionism)

Once the exclusive domain of the far-right and far-left, the expression “anti-Zionism is not antisemitic” has crept into the mainstream. We hear it all the time on social media from athletes to politicians, from journalists to “influencers.” Most surprising is that the expression has even made its way into the vernacular of liberal, progressive Jews, going so far as to claim that not only is anti-Zionism not antisemitic, but “conflating Zionism...

When looking at classically antisemitic essays in Arabic news sites, Jordan has far more of them then all other Arab countries combined. There is a fair amount of antisemitism in Iraqi media, and Algeria will publish some. Most Arab countries are sensitive to charges of antisemitism and will stick with writing about Israel and Zionism to avoid that accusation.But the...

The Mufti’s seminal antisemitic pamphlet

From “Islamic Antisemitism: Characteristics, Origins, and Current Effects” by Matthias Küntzel in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: A thirty-one-page booklet in Arabic entitled Islam and Jewry, published in Cairo on August 18, 1937, served as an effective propaganda tool. 11 As far as we know, this publication is the first written evidence of Islamic antisemitism. In 1938, the Berlin-based publishing house Junker und Dünnhaupt released...

From Ian: On eve of 1st UAE flight, PM claims Palestinians can’t ‘veto’ Israel-Arab peace Israel’s normalization of ties with the United Arab Emirates will pave the way for treaties with more Arab countries since it has removed the “Palestinian veto” on peace between the Jewish state and the Arab world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, as he hosted senior American...

This weekend, the UAE announced that it will no longer adhere to the Arab League boycott of Israel. AP reported: Saturday's announcement formally eliminates a 1972 law on the UAE's books, since just after the Emirates's formation. That law mirrored the widely held stance by Arab nations at that time that recognition of Israel would only come after the Palestinians...

Ad Dustour is a Jordanian newspaper that has been publishing since 1966. It is one of the top 100 websites in Jordan and strongly supports King Abdullah. Yesterday, one of its columnists called for the expulsion of nearly all Jews who live in Israel. Khaled Al-Zubaidi is the author of an article in Ad Dustour titled “They have no future in our region.” Guess who...

At Al Araby, this cartoon is meant to be derogatory to the Arab world – but it is actually very nice. Reading from right to left, it says “Previously…” showing an Arab saying NO to reconciliation, NO to recognition and NO to negotiation with Israel, mirroring the “Three Nos” Khartoum Arab League resolution from 1967. The last frame shows the Arab has changed his...

08/29 Links: Caroline B. Glick: The Israel-Sunni Arab bloc – the new sheriff; UAE formally abolishes Israel boycott law ahead of delegation’s arrival

From Ian: Caroline B. Glick: The Israel-Sunni Arab bloc – the new sheriff In Pompeo's shuttle diplomacy we see the enormity of the administration's achievement. After the Cold War, Israeli leftists and anti-Israel foreign policy analysts in America claimed that with the superpower contest settled, Israel was no longer a strategic asset to America. The Israeli Left argued...

08/28 Links Pt2: The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz; The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives

From Ian: The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz The influential Newark rabbi was a confidante of Martin Luther King, but he’s been all but ignored by history On the evening of June 26, 1937, thousands of Berlin Jews packed the city’s grand Brüdervereinshaus to bid farewell to Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who had been ordered by the Gestapo to leave Germany...

From the International Federation of Journalists: Cartoonist Emad Hajjaj was arrested on Wednesday August 26 for "disturbing relations with a sister country” in a cartoon. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns this arrest and recent attacks on media freedom in Jordan and demands Emad Hajjaj’s immediate release. Published in Al Araby Al Jadeed, the...

From Ian: Arab countries aren't waiting for the Palestinians A few days ago, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the mufti of the Palestinian Authority and Jerusalem, published a fatwa (religious ruling) stating that Muslims in the United Arab Emirates were forbidden to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque. Who has ever heard of a fatwa like that? Who will enforce it? Whom is it supposed to deter?...

I played with one of those “make your own comic” sites for the artwork… ...

JTA reports: [O]n Wednesday night, the 93-year-old synagogue’s driveway was graffitied with the words “Free Palestine.” Critics of the Black Lives Matter movement have cited similar vandalism as evidence that protests have devolved into rioting. But has the graffiti changed the synagogue’s support for the racial justice movement? “Absolutely not,” said...

Remember when Harvard University actually meant something? The Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has named four senior leaders in diplomacy to be Fisher Family Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year: Julie Bishop, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Liberal...

Suha Arafat threatens “war” against Palestinian leadership, says she has dirt on them

Over the weekend, Yasir Arafat’s widow Suha apologized to the UAE for how Palestinians were insulting the Emirates: Suha Arafat said she wanted to apologise in the name of the Palestinian people in a post on Instagram. “I want to apologise in the name of the honourable people of Palestine to the Emirati people and their leadership for the desecration and burning...

From Ian: U.S. Law Professor Says: “Palestinian Position Is One Of Apartheid” Though talk of Israel’s annexation of parts of the West Bank (also known as Judea and Samaria) has subsided, it is widely believed that the move has been postponed, rather than abandoned. When the plan re-opens, it will be important for pro-Israel voices to be armed with the knowledge of precisely...