March 2023 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, March 31, 2023

03/31 Links Pt2: The “Good Jews” Are Never Good Enough; UN Testimony: UNRWA Teachers Call to Murder Jews; How the Palestinians got their name

From Ian: We must keep the memory of the Holocaust alive THESE DANCING, Bavarian coopers receive applause from the delighted crowd. I stare at the figurines. No longer are they 16th-century coopers but 20th-century hassidim, pious Eastern European Jews who are dancing and singing themselves into ecstasy to come closer to God. The sound of the chimes starts to warp into a...

From i24 News:More than 20 guests from different Arab Gulf and African countries arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a historic visit to Jerusalem, where they will discuss a range of issues that pertain to regional links with the Jewish state. Among these guests, some of whom were from countries with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations, were representatives...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: America’s outrageous attack on Netanyahu’s right to govern Whatever one thinks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, any true Israeli patriot will surely react viscerally to U.S. President Joe Biden’s outrageous attack on Israel’s right to govern itself without foreign interference. On Monday, Netanyahu announced he was suspending his...

By Daled AmosAmong the casualties of the demonstrations in Israel opposing the judicial reforms is the relationship between Israel and the US, between Netanyahu and Biden.But just how much of the current tension is recent?Politico already reported back in December that the Biden administration was looking for a fight with Netanyahu:The Biden administration will hold the presumptive...

Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch submitted a memorandum to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities about the problems of Palestinians with disabilities.Not surprisingly, it places most of the blame for Palestinian leaders not adhering to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on - Israel.Here is a section...

03/30 Links Pt2: Passover 2002: A Tale of Two Massacres; New Executive Director of Human Rights Watch has Anti-Israel History; 4 Things The BDS Movement Doesn't Want You To Know

From Ian: Passover 2002: A Tale of Two Massacres The Use & Misuse of the Term “Massacre” Today The term “massacre” is a powerful rhetorical tool, conjuring up feelings of moral disgust and revulsion in the face of wanton cruelty and depravity. Thus, when Israel referred to the Park Hotel suicide bombing as the “Passover Massacre,” it was not only an appropriate designation...

Back in 2009, I (very quickly) wrote a Zionist Haggadah.It is a complete, traditional Haggadah, with added commentary based on religious Zionist divrei Torah I found online.The theme is simple. The Haggadah tells a story of the Jewish people moving from slavery to freedom. This is also the story of modern Israel. Passover is as Zionist a holiday as one can imagine - the...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Tel Aviv, March 30 - Weeks of protests against the Israeli government's proposal to overhaul the country's judicial system have left their neighbors baffled, especially the ones under the rule of Fatah and Hamas, with specific lack of comprehension regarding the absence or near-absence...

This cartoon was in Hamas' Felesteen:The caption is "Occupation violations of Al Aqsa." It shows the Arab world smoking a hookah, eyes closed, while the Dome of the Rock burns.There is a huge difference in the quality of propaganda between saying that Jews are determined to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount - and saying that Arabs are ignoring that destruction.After...

From Ian: Jake Wallis Simons: Israel Is Proving It Is Still the Only Democracy in the Middle East You may have read that the situation in Israel is dire. People are talking of the end of democracy. Take a step back, however. These political convulsions are not the end of the world. The two groups of protesters - Netanyahu supporters have also taken to the streets - both...

From the extreme Leftist Jewish Currents:REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN AND SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS are leading an effort to urge President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to investigate whether Israel is using US weapons to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians, in violation of United States law, according to a letter and e-mail sent to other members of Congress...

The Jordanian Waqf and Israeli authorities agreed that Muslims would not be allowed to stay overnight in the Al Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan - a ritual known as i'tikaaf - except on Friday and Saturday nights, and on the last ten days of Ramadan.Here's the Waqf's memo:When Israeli forces peacefully removed the Muslims who were in the mosque last Sunday night, there...

Anti-Zionists like to claim that Jews have no right to Israel because they were absent from the land for so long, and therefore the rights have been extinguished over time.The proof they are wrong, of course, is that Jews have always maintained our emotional attachment to the Land of Israel. Our absence from the land was forced upon us and not a choice. The most famous example...

03/29 Links Pt2: A tale of two settlements; Indonesia yanked as U-20 World Cup host after calls to bar Israeli soccer team; Scotland’s new first minister Humza Yousaf has met with Hamas

From Ian: Uncanny Similarities Between America’s Leftist Takedown of Trump and Israel’s Leftist Attempted Takedown of Bibi It is a warning to conservatives everywhere: The rise of woke progressivism, amped by social media, threatens the future of democracy. The Israeli Left now is acting to circumvent free elections by trying to take down Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s popularly...