September 2021 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, September 30, 2021

09/30 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The ongoing nakba of Britain’s Labour party; After death threats, Iraqis who attended pro-Israel normalization summit recant

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The ongoing nakba of Britain’s Labour party Conference resolutions aren’t binding on the party leadership but are nevertheless a powerful statement of Labour party feeling. So now we know that the Labour faithful view Israel’s rebirth as a catastrophe. The Labour faithful promote the legally and historical illiterate falsehood that there is such...

Sahar Karim Al-Ta'i speaking to the Erbil conferenceOn Sunday, I reported about Iraq issuing arrest warrants against Iraqis who attended a conference in Erbil that called for normalization between Iraq and Israel. I have not seen news of any actual arrests yet, but one of the speakers has been fired for her government job.Iraq's Minister of Culture, Hassan Nazim, issued...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Ramallah, September 30 - Humanitarian activists have failed yet again to penetrate the numerous layers of government oversight, regulation and approval plaguing this already-inefficient governmental system, NGOs lamented today, following what the groups called the fifty-third...

From Ian: Is It Time to Say, "Who Cares"? No one in the U.S., including the president, has the power to settle the conflict with the Palestinians (see the Rogers Plan, Reagan Plan, Camp David Accords, Clinton Parameters, Middle East Road Map, Kerry Plan, and Deal of the Century). There is no magic formula that is yet to be discovered to change the status quo. Peace will only...

This video of Jews celebrating Simchat Torah in Hebron on Wednesday is causing a great deal of angst from bigoted Arabs who believe that Jews should be banned from Judaism's second holiest site.Al Jazeera catalogued some of the reactions to this video. This tweeter...

This is the trailer for an upcoming violent videogame named "Fursan Al Aqsa" (Knights of Al Aqsa) showing Palestinian terrorists murdering Jewish soldiers on the way for them to "liberate Al Aqsa mosque.The Brazilian Arab author, Nidal Nijm, describes the game this way:Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque® is a Third Person Action Game on which you...

Early Thursday morning, a Palestinian woman from Jenin was shot dead as she tried to stab police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City.Her name was Israa Khuzaymah, and she was the mother of three.Her Facebook page had not been updated since last November, but she seems like she was a troubled woman - the type of person who would be attracted to being killed as a "martyr"...

VP Harris Tells Antisemitic Student “Your Truth” Has a Right to Be Heard (Judean Rose)

Vice President Kamala Harris broke with several decades’ worth of bipartisan support for the Jewish State on Tuesday when she said she “was glad” that a student had brought up concerns about funding Israel’s “ethnic genocide” and “displacement of people.” WATCH: Kamala Harris nods as student accuses Israel of "ethnic genocide": “your truth cannot be suppressed" pic.twitter.com/FcqCyT7Uo8—...

From Ian: VP Harris to student who accused Israel of 'genocide': Your truth must be heard During a discussion with students about National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, US Vice President Kamala Harris did not challenge a comment by a student at George Mason University in Virginia who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide” and defended her right to say it. The student,...

Chag sameach!

Have a chag sameach! I will be back iy"h Wednesday night or Thursday....

From Ian: Stop Enabling the Antisemites Who Live Closest to Our Homes We should reflect deeply on our withdrawal from Afghanistan. The lesson of Afghanistan for the Jews—a lesson we should have learned a thousand times—is that if you want to survive, you need to rely on yourself. You cannot subcontract your defense and protection to anyone, least of all to faux human rights...

Israel is a lighthouse in a stormy sea.A beacon of democracy, diverse by design, innovative by nature and eager to contribute to the world — despite being in the toughest neighborhood on earth.We are an ancient nation, returned to our ancient homeland, revived our ancient language, restored our ancient sovereignty.Israel is a miracle of Jewish revival. Am Yisrael Chai — the...