December 2021 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, December 31, 2021

12/31 Links Pt2: 18 noteworthy Jews who died in 2021; BDS bigotry at the Sydney Festival; Bookseller Pulls Children’s Book That Erases Israel From Middle East

From Ian: 18 noteworthy Jews who died in 2021 Every year brings the deaths of Jewish icons who leave behind outsized legacies, from the realms of art and culture, government, business, philanthropy and beyond. Here are 18 whom we lost in 2021 — none from COVID — presented in alphabetical order. Sheldon Adelson Few people have exerted as significant an influence on American...

It happens every time.A Palestinian attacks Israelis with a knife, he gets killed, and the Palestinian media starts off with sob stories about how he in an innocent victim.The Ministry of Health announced this afternoon the death of the young man, Amir Atef Khader Rayan, from the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, after the occupation soldiers shot him on charges of trying to carry...

From Ian: Mark Regev: The UN - where anti-Israel prejudice remains supreme There are clear signs that Arab hostility towards the Jewish state is on the wane. The Abraham Accords normalized Israel’s relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, an Israeli Defense Minister can make a very public visit to Morocco and even Saudi Arabia allows flights to and from Israel...

To commemorate the 57th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah held a military parade in the Burj Al-Barajneh camp in Beirut.They marched with weapons including rifles, bazookas and machine guns.The camp features a mural of Palestinian terrorist heroes of all factions - not just Fatah but Hamas and Islamic Jihad.This isn't in...

The Waqf on the Temple Mount issued it annual report on "violations" by Jews of the area.The number of Israeli settlers who stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque during 2021 reached more than 34,000.The Director-General of the Department of Islamic Endowments and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib said - today, Thursday - that "the number of Jewish extremists...

This past weekend, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 85th anniversary with a virtual gala describing its illustrious history. The first 40 minutes are pretty much a documentary.It essentially shows the history of Israel through the Orchestra, with some astonishing and moving footage.(h/t MtTB) ...

12/30 Links Pt2: Remembering the Heroes; The Passion of the Antisemites; Damning new evidence undermines BBC’s Oxford Street racist slur claim; Israel approaches 9.5 million residents on eve of 2022

From Ian: Keep calm and call someone, it’s urgent When the BBC – one of the world’s most revered and esteemed news institutions – insists that something is so and stands by it so rigidly despite massive outcry, it can make anyone doubt themselves. There’s gaslighting and then there’s industrial-scale gaslighting of the kind that has a half a billion audience numbers, multi-billion-pound...

From Iran's Tasnim news agency:The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the Zionist regime and the global arrogance have been terrified by the power of the axis of resistance.The process of downfall of the Zionist regime has reached its most intense part over the past 70 years, General Ramezan Sharif said at a cultural meeting on Tuesday.He said...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Hod HaSharon, December 30 - A woman and her fiancé acknowledged this afternoon that while the two of them much prefer an intimate, wholesome celebration to accompany their upcoming nuptials, their social circle and the industry surrounding the production of their affair have...

From Ian: Mansour Abbas crossed the Rubicon, more need to follow This conflict will not end until the rejectionists accept defeat and recognize the legitimacy and permanency of the Jewish State. Let’s not forget that this is the same Abbas who once said: “Since 1948, when all of the land of Palestine was occupied by the Zionist movement gangs, and this state was established,...

A video surfaced this week showing a group of Belgian Beerschot football supporters singing anti-Jewish slogans such as 'Sieg Heil. Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas." The Antwerp police have launched an investigation into the video, Het Nieuwsblad reports .The chants were done before a game between Beerschot and Anderlecht on Monday. Anderlecht is considered to be a...

Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal How Not to Treat an EnemyNews item:Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Wednesday that Israel would implement a series of measures intended to prop up the indebted Palestinian Authority and ease Palestinians’ daily life. …Israel...

I just found this 1936 book, The Yellow Spot, which documents in detail the beginnings of Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany, with lots of photos and facsimiles from Nazi media.The terror in reading this book is in the knowledge that the horrific facts recounted here in mind-numbing detail - the pogroms, the arrests, the anti-Jewish laws, the ordinary Germans enthusiastically...