July 2021 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, July 31, 2021

07/31 Links: Mixed judo team wins bronze, 2nd medal for Israel; Congress must fix UNRWA’s Hamas problem; GOP senators introduce bill for Israel label on West-Bank products;

From Ian: Mixed judo team wins bronze, 2nd medal for Israel at Tokyo Olympics Israel’s mixed team in judo won a bronze medal at the Olympics on Saturday, the nation’s second medal at the Tokyo games. The team scored a victory over their Russian opponents in the consolation round of an event that is being held for the first time this year. In the battle for bronze, Israeli...

07/30 Links Pt2: Sorry, Ben & Jerry: You’re on the wrong side of history along with all who boycott Israel; CUNY Professor Claims Muslims Will ‘Erase This Filth Called Israel’ in Anti-Semitic Sermon

From Ian: NYPost Editorial: Sorry, Ben & Jerry: You’re on the wrong side of history along with all who boycott Israel “Imagine Whirled Peace,” a John Lennon tribute flavor, is as close as Ben & Jerry’s get to promoting actual world peace — and the founders’ claim that halting business in the West Bank puts the company on the “right side of history” is beyond bunk. Bennett...

Shibley Telhami at the Brookings Institution has released another poll that shows that loaded questions can prompt the anti-Israel responses he wants.Only a few questions were published but their wording shows the bias of the pollsters:Q67. Several members of Congress suggested withholding possible sale of arms to Israel, after its bombings of Gaza resulted in the death of...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The invisible victims of jihadi violence The death of Ruth Pearl at the age of 85 reminds us once again of the unspeakable horror that was visited upon Ruth and her family, and which served as a particularly dreadful wake-up call for the Western world. In January 2002 her son, the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda...

Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch tweeted:600 academics, artists and intellectuals from 45 countries issue a public declaration calling on the Israeli government to dismantle its regime of apartheid.The declaration actually now has over 1000 signatories. On its main page they highlight only the most prominent signers, to show how seemingly important people agree that Israel is...

The Jerusalem Post reports:US President Joe Biden decided to nominate Deborah Lipstadt as the next US Ambassador to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism.Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, was the founding director of the Institute for Jewish Studies.She is currently on the boards of The Jewish Forward Advisory Committee and the...

This year it has become fashionable to accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid. First B'Tselem, and then Human Right Watch, have opened the floodgates to give the Israel haters something to point at as they use Israel as the first, last and only example of apartheid in the world.As we and others have documented extensively, the charge is baseless - unless you completely redefine...

07/29 Links Pt2: Ben & Jerry’s is the tip of the iceberg - a meltldown is coming; "The Squad" Call to Strip Tax-Exempt Status From Pro-Israel US Charities; Why was Julian Burnside’s message antisemitic?

From Ian: Settler colonialism backfires With its hegemonic status secured, settler colonialism has swept away the older paradigm of Israel as an outpost of colonialism. Calling Israel a byproduct of the thoroughly discredited colonialist international order lost its currency because it failed to explain not only why the Jewish state did not follow the expected arc of decline,...

Silwanic reports that Fawzia Bader Zahran sold her apartment in the Wadi Hilweh (City of David) neighborhood in Silwan to the Elad Jewish settlement organization.She was the wife of the late Ahmad Jum'a al-Qaq,. who put the property in her name in 1993.Zahran herself fled to Jordan.Family members have distanced themselves from her, saying that they did not approve the...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page. Hinnom Valley, July 29 - A scientific effort to alter history to conform to a narrative under which Palestinians constitute the ancient indigenous people of the Holy...

From Ian: Richard Kemp: Fighting the Blight of Durban Hamas started this war [in May] as part of its power struggle with Fatah... But its... acts of aggression — seen repeatedly since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 — were also intended to engender an Israeli reaction that would unavoidably lead to the deaths of Palestinian civilians, and in turn provoke vilification against...

Al Arabiya reports:Dubai-headquartered transport startup Swvl will list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, claiming to be the first $1.5 billion unicorn from the Middle East to list on the exchange.Unicorns, companies that are valued at over $1 billion while still privately held, are old hat to Israel. 16 Israeli companies reached that status in 2020 alone, with ten more in the...

In Human Rights Watch's report on the May fighting in Gaza, by far the most absurd statement is this one: "Human Rights Watch did not find any evidence of a military target at or near the site of the airstrikes, including tunnels or an underground command center under al-Wahda street or buildings nearby." ...

The Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas loves to celebrate anniversaries of major terror attacks. The infamous Sbarro massacre, which happened on August 9, 2001, is no exception. Today is the Hebrew date anniversary of that attack.It proves the utter depravity of not only Hamas but of all the Palestinians who celebrated at the time.The ghoulish article exaggerates...

07/28 Links Pt2: Thousands attend Shield of David’s ‘We Are Israel’ rally against antisemitism in El Cajon; UN discrimination against Jews ensnares Unilever and J Street

From Ian: Thousands attend Shield of David’s ‘We Are Israel’ rally against antisemitism in El Cajon Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder were among the many high profile people who spoke at the Shield of David’s rally Sunday evening in El Cajon. Plus, over 4,000 people attended the massive event, that was put on to fight...

Continuing on my excerpts from Eight years in Asia and Africa from 1846-1855 by Jewish explorer Israel Joseph Benjamin, the author summarizes the plight of the Jews of Persia, not withstanding that some of them were very successful in business.Among the Persian Jews are some who are very rich, and this wealth is the source of so many dangers, that they are obliged to conceal...