August 2024 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, August 31, 2024

08/31 Links: Kemp: The US should sanction the ICC; America 2024: Is antisemitism “the point?”; IDF working to identify bodies found in Gaza, possibly of hostages

From Ian: Martin Sherman: America 2024: Is antisemitism “the point?” Antisemitism as “a point” Thus, while it is true that the Convention did not permit a Palestinian Arab speaker to address the Convention, this was overshadowed entirely by the fact that the Jewish members were compelled to assemble in hiding to conduct Jewish-related affairs for fear of disruption by anti-Jewish...

08/30 Links Pt2: The Nazification of anti-Zionism; As a lifelong Jewish Democrat, it pains me to say this; Israeli swimmer wins third Paralympic medal

From Ian: The Nazification of anti-Zionism Of course, there are significant differences between then and now, the most obvious being that during the Nazi era, antisemitism was a state-driven policy, whereas today it’s a civil society phenomenon in Western countries. Still, there are two overlaps that are worth pointing out. Firstly, while Western governments aren’t actively...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Correcting the ‘Escalation’ Nonsense Let’s take as an example the New York Times article on Israel’s antiterror raids in the West Bank this week. “It was a significant escalation after months of raids that have unfolded alongside the war in Gaza,” we’re told. We then learn this: “The operation followed months of escalating Israeli raids in the occupied...

Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine held a protest outside the Hillel Jewish student building, cementing their status as antisemites. They waved the flag of the PFLP terror group.And here is part of their speech on why they protested Hillel.No room for an ethnostate in the Middle East!Except that every Arab state is an ethnostate by any definition.The constitution...

Norwegian site VG reports that a Norwegian citizen named Wissam Khazem was killed this morning in Jenin.The family in Norway claims Wissam was not a militant or Hamas member:"My son was not a terrorist. He was an ordinary person who worked in a construction company. He tried to get his wife to Norway, but was refused three times. That's why he moved back to the West Bank,"...

The IDF issued a press release showing that they found Hamas documents that prove they manipulated the data of PCPSR polls in Gaza to make themselves look more popular than they are.The head of the polling institute says it is "highly unlikely" that this happened, since he trusts his Gaza team, but he will investigate.The IDF published two translated documents from Hamas. (The...

Khaled Meshaal, current leader of Hamas outside Gaza, gave a speech remotely in Istanbul to commemorate the anniversary of the 1969 Al Aqsa fire that the Muslim world continues to falsely blame on Jews.His speech advocated violence - and yet it sounded exactly like "progressive" students on campus.His main points were:* Palestinians must return to suicide terrorism. “We want...

08/29 Links Pt2: The moral cowardice of European Christian leaders; Rare First Temple-era stone seal unearthed in Jerusalem; Nick Cave on Israel and BDS

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The moral cowardice of European Christian leaders The outspoken chief rabbi of South Africa, Dr. Warren Goldstein, has once again given voice to crucial truths that others have shamefully ignored. He accused both Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, of being indifferent to the murder of black Christians in Africa and the...

From Ian: Strangling Iran: What holds true in the West Bank, holds in Gaza The IDF’s actions on Wednesday in Jenin, Tulkarm, Tubas, and the Far’a refugee camp in the Jordan Valley indicate that it has learned that lesson. The failed suicide bombing attack last week in Tel Aviv was the catalyst for implementing this lesson. A terrorist believed to be from Nablus, identified...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Persian Satrap Hits Reply-All On Haman's Proclamation To 127 Provinces Susa, August 29 - Continued chaos enveloped royal correspondence with all parts of the Achaemenid Empire this week when the governor of one far-flung territory, in a moment of carelessness, selected...

The Washington Post demonstrated yesterday how to be anti-Israel without directly lying.The headline (since updated) says 10 Palestinians killed. The article says, twice, 10 Palestinians killed. Finally, in paragraph four, it mentions Islamic Jihad admitted six of its terrorists were killed and Hamas admitted three of its own terrorists were killed. That's...

The Palestinian Center of Human Rights is a respected organization by the human rights community. It is also insanely antisemitic.The headline of a news release this week says, "Latest Israeli Displacement Orders Further Prove Their Genocidal Nature.The very things the IDF does to avoid civilian casualties in order to get to Hamas targets hidden in civilian areas are...

A Palestinian NGO called "The Shireen Observatory," ,named for the late Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh and staffed by Palestinian journalists, has been trying to keep track of all the fatalities since October 7 and the circumstances of their deaths.They reported on a child killed on Sunday:The two young men, Adi Al-Taroush and Musab Al-Maqsqas, were martyred after being...