September 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

09/30 Links Pt2: Antisemitism’s ‘Long March Through the Institutions’; Jonathan Tobin: The Left wants no part of liberal Israel; Trump, antisemitic? This is madness

From Ian: Antisemitism’s ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ This antisemitism was once, perhaps, an annoyance that could be swept under the rug with claims of academic freedom and diversity. It can’t be anymore. It has become pervasive, institutionalized, and systemic. And it is enforced by brutal means — both physical and psychological. The violence is bold and public,...

Joe Biden, as we see him today, projects the image of a twinkly-eyed grandfather. Which is a nice cover for the brain damage, apparent in the nonsensical word jumble issuing forth from his mouth. Everyone, after all, has senior moments, and loses words from time to time. With Joe Biden, of course, the senior moments are not occasional. It’s his regular state of being. It’s...

The PLO has been spending lots of time talking with EU representatives, since the EU is now the only reliable partner it has. It's message is a bit muddled, though.Hanan Ashrawi met with the EU representative to the Palestinian Authority today where she told him that Palestinians were still the center of the universe - and that Israeli normalization with Arab countries...

From Ian: The Abraham Accords trumps the Oslo Accords The signing of the Abraham Accords is an incredible achievement for the Trump administration. For the last three and a half years President Trump disregarded all conventional wisdom regarding the Middle East despite warnings from past presidents, State Department officials and diplomats around the world. Many thought that...

There have been a lot of headlines over the past day about the Columbia College student referendum supporting divesting from Israel.The vote was meaningless. All it showed is that Israel-haters could get more people to vote than Israel supporters during a time that Jewish students were busy dealing with Jewish holidays. According to Jewish Insider, far less than half the students...

The International League of Peoples' Struggle is proud to present a webinar featuring Leila Khaled.This October, the ILPS, its member organizations, country chapters, and allied networks will be launching a month-long campaign of Global Solidarity with the Palestinian People.As part of the Month of Solidarity, the ILPS will deal with issues such as the recently announced Imperialist/Zionist...

We've discussed before the strange phenomenon of so many philosophers through history who were also antisemitic. It's hard to know why this is, but I pointed out that philosophers often think that they are smarter, better and have more insight into subjects than the dumb masses, and this hubris extends into the idea that they think that anything they come up with must...

09/29 Links Pt2: Netanyahu at UN reveals Hezbollah arms depot in Beirut, warns of fresh ‘tragedy’; Jewish Democrats release campaign ad comparing Trump and 1930s Germany

From Ian: Netanyahu at UN reveals Hezbollah arms depot in Beirut, warns of fresh ‘tragedy’ Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday revealed a secret arms depot belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah near Beirut’s International Airport, warning of another catastrophic explosion and calling on the Lebanese people to protest...

A new NGO has sprung up, named DAWN: Democracy for the Arab World Now. The New York Times praised it ahead of its announcement Tuesday.Sounds reasonable. Who can be against democracy in the Arab world? Except that the organization, founded and run by anti-Israel activists like Juan Cole, Sari Bashi and Sarah Leah Whitson, is very selective as to which non-democratic...

The New York Times writes about the trial in Paris for the alleged Islamist collaborators of the 2015 Hyper Cacher massacre with the headline question: "At Trial, Jewish Victims of 2015 Paris Attack Ask: Why the Hatred?"The question of why people hate Jews has been around as long as Jews have been around. But the New York Times only gives a single answer:“The only motive for...

From Ian: Mordechai Kedar: Do Arab States Really Support the Palestinians? On a political level, the Palestinians have managed to arouse the hatred of many of their Arab brethren. In 1990, Arafat supported Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In revenge, Kuwait, once it was freed of the Iraqi conquest, expelled some 400,000 Palestinians, most of whom had been living...

One of the expected benefits of the Abraham Accord is that Arab support for the Palestinian Authority, especially financial support, would no longer be automatic. Ideally, that would pave the way towards the Palestinian leadership realizing the need to change strategy and actually show up at the negotiating table. The PA got a kick in the pants a week before...

On Saturday, tens of thousands of Christians gathered at the Washington Mall for Franklin Graham's Prayer March. The people moved to seven different iconic locations, like the White House, the Lincolm Memorial, the World War II Memorial and the National Archives, with specific prayers at each stop.None of the prayers were political. One person noticed a superficial...

From Qantara.de:The conversion of Hagia Sophia back into a mosque was a spectacular move. Some saw this change in the status of this publicly accessible site with its magnificent art, frescoes and architecture as sacrilege, but for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it constituted a "resurrection", indeed, a "harbinger" for the liberation of the next holy site, the Al-Aqsa...

09/28 Links: Yisrael Medad: A call to revolt, 90 years on; New York Times Tilts Toward One-State Solution on Israel-Palestine; American Jews should reject Joe Biden

From Ian: Yisrael Medad: A call to revolt, 90 years on Yom Kippur 5691 fell on a Thursday – October 2, 1930. The next day’s edition of The Palestine Bulletin, the forerunner of this newspaper, informed its readers on page one that “an incident took place last evening when a young Jewish enthusiast desired to have the ram’s horn blown contrary to the temporary regulations...

G'mar Chatima Tovah 5781 -- גמר חתימה טובה

This is an update my Yom Kippur message of previous years.I unconditionally forgive anyone who may have wronged me during this year, and I ask forgiveness for anyone I may have wronged as well.Specifically (as enumerated in previous years, based on the list from The Muqata a few years back):-If you sent me email and I didn't reply, or didn't get back to you...