August 2021 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

08/31 Links Pt2: A Growing Threat: Antisemitism on College Campuses; The Economist Excises Religion from Extremism…And Whitewashes Hamas’ Gaza Tyranny

From Ian: Survey: Nearly All Jewish Students and Alumni Cite Campus Antisemitism as a ‘Problem,’ With Half Saying It’s ‘Getting Worse’ Virtually all Jewish university students and alumni now feel that antisemitism on college campuses is a problem, according to a survey released on Monday by Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), with nearly half of respondents saying that the issue...

Ed Asner died this week, aged 91, and while our politics were miles apart, his passing was not without impact on this writer. Ed’s father, you see, was from Eisiskes, Lithuania, some thirty miles away from Vasilishki, the shtetl where my maternal grandfather was...

Fathi Al-Balawi Secondary School for Boys was re-opened after it suffered damage during the May Gaza war.It was said to have been "subjected to bombing and destruction by the Israeli war machine."Here is what it looks like now: Here is the damage it sustained in May:I...

From Ian: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Joe Biden is deaf, dumb and blind to the chaos the US has unleashed In the eyes of the Taliban, the Afghans who worked with the Nato-backed Afghan government and those who worked in any capacity with US armed forces are traitors. The Taliban have already begun the work of retribution. Other jihadi and tribal groups in Afghanistan will be glad to...

This week, the League of Arab States Permanent Arab Human Rights Committee is holding its 48th semi-annual regular session.What do you think is the top priority of the various human rights representatives of the 22 member states? Abuse of women and laws (like polygamy and inheritance laws) that ensure second class status for women? The laws that many Arab states have against...

From JNS:A public library system in Philadelphia is promising to make operational changes after drawing criticism for what some community members are considering an effort to indoctrinate children and parents against Israel through books, videos and resource links that show a biased pro-Palestinian agenda.The 55 branches of the library system had individual Facebook pages...

The FBI released its 2020 hate crime statistics report. As with every year, anti-Jewish crimes dwarfs every other anti-religious crime, with anti-Muslim crimes coming in a distant second..There were 951 reported anti-Jewish crimes - compared with 134 anti-Muslim hate crimes.Anti-Jewish hate crimes were 57.5% of all anti-religious crimes.Digging deeper into the statistics,...

08/30 Links Pt2: Palestinians seek to erase Jewish history; Reflections on Crown Heights, 30 Years Later; Public School educators’ obsessive hatred of Israel

From Ian: Palestinians seek to erase Jewish history Jerusalem has and continues to be the main flashpoint in the fight to erase history. Senior Palestinian leaders summarily dismiss Judaism’s holiest site, The Temple Mount, as an "alleged Temple." Ze’ev Orenstein, director of International Affairs for the City of David, an archeological site for ancient Jerusalem, told Fox...

Palestinian Media Watch reports that at least two girls' summer camps in the West Bank were named after female terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who was responsible for the murder of 37 people.The "Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi summer camp" was in Tubas:The similarly named "The Sisters of Dalal summer camp" was held in Tulkarem. Dalal Mughrabi is so popular, people know who she is...

Noura Erakat, the virulently anti-Israel academic who positions herself as a "human rights attorney," used Naftali Bennett's visit to the White House as an excuse to write a Washington Post op-ed to attack Israel as an "apartheid" state, along with the other lies we are so familiar with.It would take a much longer article to go through all of her arguments, many of which I...

From Ian: Border Police officer shot on Gaza border dies of wounds A Border Police officer wounded during violence along the border with Gaza more than a week ago died of his wounds at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba Monday afternoon, hospital officials said. Barel Hadaria Shmueli, 21, had been fighting for his life since being shot in the head at close range by a Gazan...

I had written about how the friends of Rina Shnerb, the 17-year old who was murdered by a bomb while hiking, embroidered a wedding canopy for anyone who needs it so her family could participate in the celebration of weddings that Rina would never have herself.Commenter Annie in Petah Tikva noted that her friends also initiated another project: "They set out camping kits all...

Recently, Rep. Rashida Tlaib referred to Ahmad Erekat, the Palestinian who was shown on video swerving his car to attack a female Israeli soldier at a checkpoint, as a "loving son."It turns out she has a habit of complimenting terrorists who attempt - or succeed - in murdering Israeli Jews, as well as their families and villages.She referred to Mai Afana, the woman who...

A week ago, a video showing abuse at Iran's Evin prison was released by hackers who broke into their video surveillance system. In one part of the footage, a man smashes a bathroom mirror to try to cut open his arm. Prisoners — and even guards — beat each other in...

Palestinian Taliban upset over a party at Murad Castle, Bethlehem

From Enjoy Bethlehem:The Murad Castle was built 400 years ago during the rule of the Ottoman Sultan Murad, with an aim to protect the area of Solomon’s Pools from invaders, especially the safe passage of water resources to Jerusalem.The Castle was transformed into a museum that relates a four thousand year old history, civilization and culture of all the people and civilizations...