August 2022 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

08/31 Links Pt2: Zionism past and present: From Herzl to Herzog; What ‘CNN’ left out of its special on anti-Semitism; Sharansky: Gorbachev wouldn’t have released Soviet Jews if not for global pressure

From Ian: Gil Troy: Zionism past and present: From Herzl to Herzog The past and present danced together on Monday night in Basel, Switzerland. It wasn’t just due to the black-bearded, top-hatted Theodor Herzl impersonator, who gave stunningly relevant answers by quoting Herzl’s writings to questions about various contemporary issues today. It wasn’t just due to the moving...

The anti-Israel crowd likes to insist that Israel can’t be “home” for a Jew, because the Jews were gone for thousands of years. The Arabs, they say, have a more recent claim. But what about the Arabs who live in Jordan, comprised of 80 percent of the British Mandate for Palestine? How can they “return” to “Palestine” when they are already IN Palestine—Mandate Palestine. Aren't...

Hassan II mosque in CasablancaMaariv has an op-ed by Sam Ben Sheetrit, president of the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry, which is getting attention in Arab media.It says:The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca is one of the largest and most magnificent mosques in the world. This mosque was built half on the sea and half on land. Unlike Al-Aqsa Mosque, there is no restriction...

From Ian: Biden Admin Mum After Abbas Claims Israel Commits ‘50 Holocausts’ on Palestinians The State Department will not say if it is considering any repercussions for the Palestinian Authority after the authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused Israel of committing "50 Holocausts," comments that sparked an international diplomatic scandal. "We recognize that President...

Mahmoud Abbas told Wafa News Agency that he plans to tell the world how heroic the terrorists who are in Israeli prisons are in his address to the UN in September."The presidency affirmed that the Palestinian people and their leadership stand with the heroic prisoners in their battle in which they defend the dignity and sanctities of their people," the statement said.The statement...

On Monday, there was a rally in Manhattan's Washington Square Park demanding that Israel free all terrorists from prison.At the rally one could see this sign to "globalize the Intifada," a call to attack Jews worldwide.Even more explicit were these signs for "Palestinian return" and "Palestinian liberation" - "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.""By any means necessary" means "including...

On Tuesday, a group of five religious Jews tried to visit Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) without coordinating the visit with the Israeli army. This is stupid. Everyone knows it is stupid. But sometimes even stupid things need to be explained to truly understand the situation. Why is it stupid for Jews to try to visit a holy spot in Nablus?Because everyone knows...

08/30 Links Pt2: Zionism won. So why is it still under attack 125 years after Basel?; Israel sentences Gaza aid worker to 12 years for funding Hamas terror

From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Zionism won. So why is it still under attack 125 years after Basel? Anti-Semitism has not only survived but thrived in the last 125 years as it attached itself like a parasite to a variety of different political movements—fascism, Nazism, communism, and in our own day, Islamism and woke neo-Marxism—all of which have helped perpetuate hate for Jews....

Suhair Fahd Jaradat, writing in Rai al-Youm, thinks that the Jews are panning to take over the Kingdom of Jordan.This comes up every once in a while. Here are her "proofs:""The Israeli narrative claims that the Jewish state should have been established on both banks of the Jordan River, which goes back to the British pledges to establish the national home for the Jews west...

Don't tell me how to spend the money the West sends me!The International Monetary Fund visited Israel and the territories this month to give advice on helping the Palestinian economy.They issued a final statement with a summary of their findings. But there was something missing:A single word about the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund or the other programs that pay terrorists...

From Ian: Bassem Eid: 'Fifty Holocausts' Remark Proves Palestinian Authority Head Must Go Abbas, let us remember, was supposed to be the pragmatist, the moderate, compared to his predecessor. Yasser Arafat's essentially violent nature and strategy were well known to the world, as he had committed innumerable acts of terrorism and cruelty as the leader of the Palestinian Liberation...

A guest post from Kweansmom.Linda Sarsour, outspoken Palestinian-American activist, never has anything good to say about Israel, calling it an oppressive occupier and an apartheid state. Yet during a recent visit to her relatives on the West Bank, she also spent some time in pre-1967 Israel and visited one of its most ethnically and religiously diverse cities, Haifa. Is it...

James Zogby is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, Managing Director of Zogby Research Service which provides polling services, a visiting professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. He is a leading anti-Israel voice in the media and social media.On Saturday,...