October 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, October 31, 2020

10/31 Links: Caroline B. Glick: The real Netanyahu (and Trump) dilemma; Top Fatah militant killed during clash with PA officers; Sean Connery dies aged 90

From Ian: Caroline B. Glick: The real Netanyahu (and Trump) dilemma The Nobel Peace Prize Committee's decision to award the prize to the World Food Program this year assuaged the fears of elitists from New York to Paris and Berlin. The Abraham Accords, which include bilateral peace treaties between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and most recently Sudan, and Israel have...

10/30 Links Pt2: Corbyn is one man. Left-Wing Antisemitism is a Tradition; Britain's Labour Party will struggle to erase its moral stain; The Narcissism of The NYTs’ Foreign Coverage

From Ian: Alan Johnson: Corbyn is one man. Left-Wing Antisemitism is a Tradition Antisemitic forms of anti-Zionism have roots in the UK far left going back decades. Before Corbyn’s victory in 2015 the UK far left tried in the mid 1980s to ban Jewish Student Societies on campuses because they were ‘Zionist’. Sunderland Polytechnic did so. A group Corbyn sponsored ran a piece...

I just found this in the JTA archives from September 5, 1968:Since the Six-Day War, secret negotiations conducted by Spain have resulted in freeing several hundred Jewish families from Egypt, the Washington Post said Wednesday. “Possibly 500 families–Egyptian citizens as well as aliens–have been helped out of Egypt and have been dispersed” to Western countries. “Many stateless...

From Ian: JPost Editorial: The significance of back-to-back pro-Israel policies ahead of elections Explanations given by the US in the past for an unwillingness to connect Jerusalem – any part of Jerusalem – to Israel in passports revolved primarily around the idea that the status of Jerusalem in the eyes of most countries, is still pending, and that this is a hot-button...

By Daled AmosOn October 17, Natalie Hopkinson -- an associate professor at Howard University -- wrote a glowing opinion piece in The New York Times on antisemite Louis Farrakhan. Entitled The Women Behind the Million Man March, the article recounts the role played by Cora Masters Barry, wife of then DC Mayor Marion Barry, in mobilizing the women who played a significant...

The Global Imams Council is an Iraq-based NGO of Shiite and Sunni clerics. In 2014 when ISIS invaded Iraq, the government invited Shia and Sunni Imams to be a religious-based counterbalance to ISIS extremist Islamism. After ISIS collapsed, the imams invited other councils of imams around the world to join, and the Global Imams Council was launched in 2018. It now has...

This is a bit unusual.Ammar Campa-Najjar is a 31 year old American of Palestinian ancestry who is running for Congress as a Democrat against 66-year old Lebanese-American Republican Darrell Issa, in the 50th District.Both of them are campaigning on themselves being pro-Israel, and both of them are accusing the other of being anti-Israel.Issa paid for an ad using Trump's...

10/29 Links Pt2: Heads Up, Liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees; UK Labour suspends unrepentant Jeremy Corbyn after damning anti-Semitism report

From Ian: Heads Up, Liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid...

This cartoon struck a chord with lots of people on Twitter and some then reposted it on Facebook. 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...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Jerusalem, October 29 - A governmental fact-finding committee on the relationship between state and religion published its findings today following two years of research into the delicate issue, and made several important determinations, among them that the country billing itself...

From Ian: US announces citizens born in Jerusalem can now list Israel on their passports The United States will now allow US citizens born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their country of birth on passports and other consular documents, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday. The declaration marked the reversal of a decades-old policy that refrained from identifying...

Sudanile has had a large number of op-eds about the Sudan-Israel peace agreement, showing a wide variety of views that give an indication of the thinking in different segments of Sudanese society.I've noted that even the articles that were supportive of the deal were somewhat antisemitic. All the more so this op-ed opposing it by Mahjoub Tawer.What is the interest of Israel...

Over the past week, Muslim countries have been vocal in condemning France and specifically its president Emmanuel Macron for defending cartoons that lampoon Mohammed.The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said that "it will always condemn practices of blasphemy and of insulting Prophets."Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned "blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam...

In 1877, a sensational story played out in the pages of the New York Times.A Jew named Joseph Seligman and his family were refused lodging at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, upstate New York because they were Jewish, even though they had stayed there previous years. The owner of the hotel, Judge Henry Hilton (not related to the Hilton hotel chain of today), justified this...

Vic Rosenthal's weekly columnThe end of the historic “Arab-Israeli conflict” may be on the horizon, depending on the outcome of the US presidential election.Oh, It wouldn’t mean that the Palestinian Arabs will soon give up on the idea that they can flood Israel with the descendants of 1948 refugees and reverse the result of the War of Independence. It wouldn’t mean that the...