April 2023 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, April 30, 2023

When an Egyptian delegate warned the UN that Arabs would massacre a million Jews in their lands

UN Special Committee for Palestine meeting, 1947From JTA, November 25, 1947:A threat that Jews living in Arab countries will be massacred should the U.N. General Assembly decide to adopt the partition plan for Palestine was made today at the Ad Hoc Committee by Egyptian delegate Heykal Pasha. He warned the Committee, which concluded its debate tonight, that it was “playing...

From Ian: Gil Troy: 'If you will it, is no dream!': What would Herzl think of Israel today? Eventually, Herzl decided the only answer was to transform “the Jewish Question into a Zion Question.” We’re not just a religion, he realized, “We are a people,” with a particular history, heritage, and homeland, Zion, meaning the land of Israel. Knowing that a national political renewal...

The desire to paint Israel as evil is an all-encompassing obsession for some. But they thirst for new material.+972 Magazine published an expose about Israel's ties to the Greek military junta in the 1960s:The relationship blossomed during the dark days of the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 and 1974 — a period marked by the brutal repression, imprisonment, torture,...

There was a remarkable Twitter exchange between a number of critics of the Amnesty "apartheid" report and Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty UK campaigns manager.CAMERA created a video showing specific lies in Amnesty's video supporting the report. If Amnesty had a good case, why would it need to manipulate viewers?15 Lies in 15 Minutes: Amnesty International's 'Apartheid' Video":#Israel...

According to the Felesteen news site and many other Palestinian sites:Cyprus International University canceled a lecture that was supposed to be given by a lecturer from the Rubin (or Rabin?) Institute for Studies, in the Israeli occupation entity. This came after pressure from students in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, who organized a demonstration on the...

04/29 Links: How a UN definition threatens Israel; The Sbarro bomber's extradition: Where does the State Department actually stand? Guardian Draws Outrage with ‘Blatantly Antisemitic’ Cartoon

From Ian: How a UN definition threatens Israel A Palestinian refugee is given different conditions according to UNRWA. The definition begins with a typical classification, "persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict." In addition to this,...

04/28 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The antisemitism that drives identity politics; Jewish advocacy group accuses CUNY system of rampant antisemitism

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The antisemitism that drives identity politics The left’s dogma of “intersectionality” holds that groups are defined by power and powerlessness. People of color are said to be powerless because they are oppressed by the West, which is powerful. The West is said to be powerful because it is capitalist, and is therefore deemed innately exploitative...

Writing in pan-Arab Elaph newspaper, columnist Saleh Al Qallab - a former Jordanian Minister of Culture and Information - spins a bizarre interpretation of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's Memorial Day Speech.After the minutes of silence accompanying the sirens, Herzog said,I ask myself, I ask us: what other country in the world has such a special sound? It is the sound...

From MEMRI:In an address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque posted on the Aqsa Call YouTube channel on April 14, 2023, Palestinian Islamic scholar Issam Amira said that Palestinians are no more Canaanite than Egyptians are Pharaonic. Rather, he said that the Palestinians are Muslims, and had had no rights whatsoever prior to the advent of Islam. He added that when late PLO leader Yasser...

From Ian: “Foreign Aid” to Israel is bonanza for the US The U.S. does not give foreign aid to Israel — the U.S. makes an annual investment in Israel, giving US taxpayers a return of several hundred percent. While Israel is a grateful recipient of U.S. military systems, it also serves as a battle-tested, cost-effective laboratory for the U.S. defense and aerospace industries,...

Guest post by Tomer Ilan:___________________________________________________How Zionists made the land bloom by eradicating malaria European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under attack from Israel-haters for saying the truth that Israel “literally made the desert bloom.” The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned her, calling her statement a “racist...

Times of Israel reported yesterday:A Palestinian man attempted to carry out a car-ramming and stabbing attack in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon and was subsequently shot dead, the military and medics said.According to the Israel Defense Forces, the man drove onto the opposite lane on the Route 5 highway, and tried to ram his car into civilians and security forces at the...

On Thursday, the New York City Council voted on a resolution recognizing April 29 as End Jew Hatred Day annually in the City of New York. It was introduced by Councilwoman Inna Vernikov.One would expect that such a resolution would be approved unanimously. What could possibly be controversial about a resolution against antisemitism? It doesn't mention Israel. It notes the...

04/27 Links Pt2: Israel Is Antiracist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Fascist (and Was from the Start); Why the world has turned against Israel; Caroline Glick: An afternoon among the angels

From Ian: Jeffrey Herf: Israel Is Antiracist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Fascist (and Was from the Start) Nor did support for Israel come only from the Soviet bloc. Liberals and leftists in London, Paris, New York, and Washington heard Jamal Husseini, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations, reject a Jewish state in Palestine, because, he said, it...