June 2022 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, June 30, 2022

06/30 Links Pt2: Ben and Jerry's Denounces Unilever's Move to Stay in Israel; Feds charge pro-Palestinian activist with hate crime for assaulting Jewish man in NYC

From Ian: Israel Foreign Minister Lapid celebrates Unilever's Ben & Jerry's sale as 'victory' against BDS Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hailed Unilever's decision to sell its Ben & Jerry's business interests in Israel as a "victory," as the new arrangement allows the ice cream products to be sold throughout Israel and the West Bank. Last year, Ben & Jerry's...

September 1894:In a roundup of the year's stories in 1903 from the Louisville Courier-Journal, we see this from July 26:(I could not verify this incident.)In November 1903, the New York Times reported:September 1906:April 1912:Well, we know that Jews lived in peace in Arab lands for centuries before Zionism. After all - the Arabs keep telling us that!These Arabs who murdered...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Jerusalem, June 30 - Progressive American NGOs have dispatched researchers to examine the activities of Zionist programs for children in Israel during July and August with an eye toward documenting the myriad ways in which attendees learn and practice militant dispossession...

From Ian: UN Watch: UN Agency Suspends 6 Staff for Calling to Murder Jews As exposed in the report, UNRWA teacher Hana’a Daoud in Jordan called on Muslims to “fight against the Jews and kill them”; UNRWA teacher Elham Mansour in Lebanon repeatedly called to “slaughter Zionists”; and UNRWA computer teacher Nihaya Awad in the West Bank glorified Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli...

In Hebron yesterday, three people were executed while driving in a car - by other Palestinians.Fighting broke out in Yatta as the news spread.This happens often. Sometimes the murders are from family feuds, sometimes from honor killings. The Palestinian Independent Center for Human Rights finds a correlation between Palestinians attacking Jews and Palestinians attacking...

From the Jerusalem Post:The US Presbyterian Church voted to declare Israel an apartheid state and establish a Nakba Remembrance Day, as well as passing two other resolutions highly critical of Israel on Tuesday at the American religious body's 225th General Assembly.The resolutions are pure antisemitism.The US Presbyterian Church's International Engagement committee voted...

From Times of Israel:Palestinian gunmen opened fire during clashes with IDF troops guarding worshipers at a Jewish shrine in West Bank early Thursday, lightly wounding three Israelis.The clashes erupted as hundreds of Jewish worshipers under military escort arrived to pray at Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus. According to the Israel Defense Forces, armed Palestinians...

06/29 Links Pt2: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner: Who cares when the PA violates human rights?; Gil Troy: Anti-Zionism in academia: An illuminating debate

From Ian: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner: Who cares when the PA violates human rights? Particularly disturbing is the conspiracy of silence on the part of other countries, the international media, and international human rights groups. Not only do they perpetually turn a blind eye to these violations – which they know about – they mainly pin the blame obsessively on the "Israeli...

Anna Rajagopal may be confused about when she converted to Judaism (was she 10, 11, or 12?), but about one thing she is certain: Rajagopal hates Israel. She also hates any Jew who believes in the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in the Jewish homeland. Which is funny for someone who converted through a Temple that has always been Zionist. But let’s back...

UN Watch reports (via email): The UN agency that runs schools for Palestinians announced to donor states yesterday that it has just placed six employees on administrative leave after a report on Thursday by UN Watch exposed UNRWA teachers who publicly call to murder Jews.This has upset a Gaza-based "human rights" NGO, called the Hemaya Center for Human Rights:Today,...

From Ian: ‘Selling Without Discrimination’: Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s Israel Reach Agreement to End West Bank Boycott Unilever on Wednesday announced the divestment of its Ben & Jerry’s interests in Israel to its local licensee, allowing the ice cream maker’s products to be sold throughout Israel a year after its controversial move to end sales in eastern Jerusalem...

By Daled AmosThe media is very big on speculation. With the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade last week, doomsday predictions are already available: Fall of Roe will have immediate economic ramifications, experts say: "Abortion rights are economic rights, and this decision means the loss of economic security, independence, and mobility for abortion seekers....