January 2021 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Cartoon of the Day: Bigotry is the new anti-racism

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From Ian: NYPost Editorial: A new libel against Israel from Human Rights Watch Israel has led the world in rapidly vaccinating much of its population, so naturally the global left has to find fault: hence the drive to condemn Jerusalem for not taking responsibility for vaccinations in Gaza and the West Bank. In a series of tweets, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth...

Qatar has announced that it will provide $30 million a month to Gaza for all of 2021, a total of $360 million in aid.While the aid is generally earmarked for needy families and fuel for Gaza's power plant, part of it is also for paying Gaza employee salaries - meaning that it helps prop up Hamas.Israel has been allowing this aid for years, walking a tightrope between helping...

The vast majority - over 88% - of residents in the UAE are not citizens. The UAE is now taking small steps to change that.Yesterday, the Emirates announced that it will grant citizenship to some foreigners, if they can contribute significantly to UAE's society.This includes investors, doctors, specialists, inventors, scientists, intellectuals, artists and their...

Palestinian media is reporting that the Director General of Medical Services in the Palestinian ministry of health, Osama al-Najjar, announced Saturday that the ministry will receive mass quantities of three COVID-19 vaccines within days.Najjar said that the ministry will distribute them in Gaza and the West Bank alike.The three vaccines are from Pfizer, Sputnik-V and AstraZeneca.We...

01/30 Links: Natan Sharansky: Remember the People, Not Just the Atrocities; Caroline Glick: Democrats, American Jews and Politically Correct Bigotry

From Ian: Natan Sharansky: Remember the People, Not Just the Atrocities On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, everyone around the world — individuals, leaders, communities — gather to reinforce their commitment to honor the memory of the victims of the darkest hour of human history. But while the world bows its head to commemorate the Holocaust, it often remembers...

Abdel Fatah Hamayel, a long time top Fatah official and former governor of Bethlehem, wrote on his Facebook page that there were death threats againt any Fatah member who dared run for office outside of Fatah's own official list.This threat was by Fatah itself, at a meeting of the Fatah Revolutionary Council on Thursday.Hamayel condemned the threat, saying that it is...

01/29 Links Pt2: Holding "Politicized, Biased" Academia Accountable; Arab Writers Slam Facebook And Twitter's Hypocrisy: They Block Trump, Yet Continue To Provide Platform For Terror Organizations

From Ian: Winfield Myers on Holding "Politicized, Biased" Academia Accountable Winfield Myers, director of Campus Watch at the Middle East Forum, spoke to participants in a December 18 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about Campus Watch's pivotal role in documenting the misuse of taxpayer funds and the questionable foreign funding sources of various Middle East studies centers...

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From Ian: President Biden, please don't rock the Israel-PA boat Please don't rock the boat. Don't stray from the path that has proven to be effective. Too many have died, too many lives ruined. Please,stay with the initiative that has ushered in one of the most peaceful times in recent history. Why did previous administrations fail while the last administration slowed the...

Exodus 25:2-4:Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him.And these are the gifts that you shall accept from them: gold, silver, and copper; blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats’ hair...This is the first time of many that Hebrew scripture mentions that specific type of purple, known...

AP published an article about Jewish population growth in Judea and Samaria that twists statistics to make a point that is not at all supported by the data.As is often the case with the mainstream media, the facts are there - but skillfully hidden to make the reader believe something other than the truth.Headline:Report: Israeli settler population surged during Trump eraUsually...

Yesterday, social media (including myself) had a field day with the revelation that in 2018, Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had come up with a theory that California wildfires might have been started by public utility PG&E, which worked with the Rothschild family, using a satellite that redirects the sun's rays to Earth, in order to clear room...

Palestinians quietly request 1000 vaccines. Israel quietly delivers. World keeps screaming at Israel.

Once again, the Palestinian Authority made a formal request for a batch of 1000 COVID-19 vaccines for health care workers.Once again, Israel is providing them.According to Ma'an quoting Walla, the delivery of the vaccines came after Palestinian officials requested from COGAT, the IDF liaison with the territories, an urgent transfer of the vaccines.This is at least the...

From Ian: Understanding B’tselem’s “Apartheid” Libel If you’re looking for examples of spin in B’tselem’s latest anti-Israel document, in which the organization slings around the inflammatory terms “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacy,” there are plenty. Consider, as one small example, the report’s charge that Israel has built “hundreds of communities for Jewish citizens...

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ur weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Beth El, January 28 - A group of left-wing American lobbyists voiced dismay today following a divine commitment to an Israelite patriarch to grant the Holy Land to his descendants, objecting that the Almighty made that promise without consulting them.J-Street Director Jeremy...

From Ian: David Singer: Biden declares Trump peace plan dead and buried A Washington Post article in August 2020 summed up Biden and the Democrats position on Trump’s version of a two-state solution: “The Democrats, led by presidential candidate Joe Biden, are determined to change course should they come to power. There are open discussions within the caucus about conditioning...

Salon has an article attacking the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, written by Doug Neiss, a Jewish retired business writer and editor.The entire article is off the wall, but let's concentrate on the part where he claims that comparing Israel to Nazis is not antisemitic - in fact, it is justified.It is clear to pretty much anyone why such a comparison is not just odious...