April 2024 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

04/30 Links: Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?; VDH: Iran just pulled its own nuclear teeth; The Al Dahdouh clan – kings of the two industries in Gaza

From Ian: Walter Russell Mead: Hamas' Passionate Campus Supporters' Incoherent and Unrealistic View of the World Secretary of State Antony Blinken is barnstorming the Middle East to develop plans for a ceasefire and for postwar reconstruction in Gaza. American national interests demand that the U.S. resist Iran's drive to disrupt what is left of the post-Cold War order in...

Chag sameach! (part two)

Those of use stuck in the Diaspora have two more days of Passover, so I will not be posting here until Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.Chag sameach! Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

From Ian: Natan Sharansky: The Fight for Freedom, from Exodus to Gaza On the first night of Passover, Jewish families around the world read the Haggadah, which tells the story of our people's Exodus from Egypt and the beginning of our history as a free people. The conclusion that emerges is that we will always have to fight for our freedom each day and in each generation. When...

There have been many articles about "unconscious bias" or "implicit bias" in the context of racism over the past several years. For example, the University of California San Francisco defines it this way:Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about...

Mahmoud Abbas addressed the World Economic Forum meeting today in Riyadh.During his speech, spoken while sitting in the audience for some reason, he said that what Israel is doing in Gaza is worse than anything that happened in World War II:Borrell said a few days ago that what is happening in Gaza has never happened not even in the Second World War in Germany. Others have...

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has now issued its count of casualty statistics for up to April 25.If you compare those statistics with those from March 31, you see that more than half the reported 2,732 deaths this month are military aged males - who take up far less than 25% of Gaza's population.Chances are that the vast majority of them are members of armed terrorist...

04/27 Links: Hatred of Israel is the great moral disorder of our time; Hamas publishes video of hostages Omri Miran and Keith Siegel; BBC has turned into modern day Joseph Goebbels

From Ian: Hatred of Israel is the great moral disorder of our time If I forget thee, O Jerusalem… (Psalm 137) It is the great moral disorder of our time. Dear Israel is but a spit of earth on a huge globe. Three years after six million Jews were put to torture, humiliation, whippings, rape, medical experiment, starvation, and vile death, was it not surely time — time for...

04/26 Links Pt2: International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies; Hamas Propaganda Gets a Pass from ‘Disinformation’ Watchdogs

From Ian: Douglas Murray: International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies Of course, this whole thing is a fantastic moral inversion. It is not the Israelis who are committing war crimes. It was Hamas who committed war crimes — live on camera — on Oct. 7. Will Khan prosecute the leadership of Hamas? Good luck to him if he tries. It seems...

From Ian: Josh Hammer: Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs n his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: "May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety...

From The Daily Princetonian, yesterday:Earlier today, Professor of History Gyan Prakash held his seminar on the courtyard, inviting others to join. His course HIS411: World After Empire is typically held at 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays.“The readings were very connected to what’s going on over here. So, they [students] read Angela Davis, who speaks about how political activism is...

Is it 1938 again?Maybe it is more like 1933.From AP, April 19, 1933:The percentage of Jews admitted to elite universities in the US has dropped by half since the beginning of the 21st century. It isn't quite down to their relative population in the US, but DEI policies aim to do exactly that - to have colleges reflect the demographics of the US population. And this is...

The New York Times looks at the accusation that Israel buried Gazans in "mass graves" outside Nasser Hospital that we debunked on Monday.“This is the biggest mass grave since the beginning of the war,” Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense, a search and rescue department within the Hamas-controlled territory, said Thursday before calling for an international investigation.A...

One would think that Euronews would report things like a Western news agency. But apparently, in Arabic, it adopts the antisemitic Arab viewpoint.On Thursday, Israeli police closed roads surrounding the Old City of Jerusalem to ensure settlers' access to the Buraq Wall.The historic Mughrabi Gate was closed yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, in the face of extremist settlers’...

Hezbollah says no to a ceasefire. All those "pro-peace" campus zombies go, yay, Hezbollah!

From Naharnet:Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has revealed that he has “received major warnings from the Europeans and Arabs” regarding the Israel-Hezbollah clashes, a media report said on Thursday.U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has also told him in their latest phone call that “there is a need to cease fire in the south and not wait for the course of the war in the Gaza...

From Ian: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1938 If Jews do not feel safe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, in the United States of America, where can they feel safe? NYC is home to some 1.3 million Jews, the most outside of Israel. Jewish men and women have thrived in The Big Apple for hundreds of years, enjoying religious freedom, prosperity, political...

I slid off the chair to the floor, but I know nothing of this. I am gone. Only later do I ask Dov, my husband, how it happened. “Slid” was his word. “You slid off the chair onto the floor,” said Dov. “Did I hit my head?” “No, the medics kind of caught you and eased you down to the floor.” “Then what happened?” “The MDA guy immediately started compressions,” says Dov, with...