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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

No, Israel is not hamstrung to only using a "law enforcement" paradigm in Jenin under international law

Call the police!Last week, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk condemned the Jenin operation, saying that some of the methods and weapons used “are more generally associated with the conduct of hostilities in armed conflict, rather than law enforcement."“The use of airstrikes is inconsistent with rules applicable to the conduct of law enforcement...

Diversity, Palestinian-style

On Thursday, Mahmoud Abbas convened a meeting of the PLO Executive Committee.Besides his normal anti-Israel pronouncements, he called for the widest possible participation in Nakba Day activities, stressing to his people their right to "return" to an apartheid state rather than live under his rule. The "widest participation" line is funny, because the PLO Executive Committee...

Two stories the mainstream media will miss from Knesset's death penalty bill

A death penalty bill for terrorists passed a preliminary hearing in the Knesset today, and we can expect the normal outrage to ensue.I don't think that such a bill would serve as a disincentive to terror - after all, terrorists expect to be killed during their attacks - but there are a couple of subplots to this story that are more important than the story itself. One...

Russian equestrians to bypass sports sanctions for 2024 Olympics - by competing as Palestinians

The Palestinian Authority is helping Russia bypass sanctions on their competing in sports.It has given Palestinian citizenship to several of the top Russian equestrian team members, so they will have a chance to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics as Palestinians. Eurodressage describes more:Russian Olympic Grand Prix team rider Aleksandra Maksakova has declared for Palestine. The...

Elder Comix: Eyes on the prize

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...

Antisemite David Miller warns of the nefarious dangers of "hasbara"

David Miller, the crazed Jew-hater academic whose antisemitism got him fired from Bristol University, and whose slavish support for his Iranian paymasters and against freedom for women in Iran has turned off even his most ardent Leftist fans, has written an article about the dangers of "hasbara."His venue is the Hezbollah newspaper Al Mayadeen.As with everything...

Arab scientists feud over camel urine as a miracle cure

A professor of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Egypt, Amal Kenawy, had advised people should drink camel urine, due to the many benefits it contains. Kenawy says that many scientific experiments have proven camel urine's benefits.She's not the only one. A preacher in Kuwait made a video over the summer extolling not only the health benefits...

11/03 Links Pt1: Israelis Want Leaders Who Have a Vision for a Jewish and Zionist State; Melanie Phillips: Israel joins the West’s culture wars

From Ian: With overwhelming victory, Netanyahu set to form strong, stable, legitimate, right-wing gov’t Apparently in Israel, the fifth time is the charm. After repeated attempts by the opposition, by defectors from his own right-wing bloc, by the prosecution and the Supreme Court to prevent embattled former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ruling, the electorate finally...

Some recent EoZ memes

Things I tweeted over the past couple of months that were not posted here (to my recollection.) 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...

German Twitter censors EoZ tweet spoofing Nazi propaganda

Twitter's algorithms don't understand irony.I recently re-posted on Twitter a poster of mine showing how there is little difference between classic antisemitism and modern anti-Zionism:I then received a notice from Twitter:Hello, We have received a complaint regarding your account, @elderofziyon, for the following content: Content ID: 1575269945289719813Reported...

Elder Comix: Be more sensitive!

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...

UAE doesn't issue a visa for the Mufti of Palestine - but may allow Israelis to enter freely

Anadolu Agency reports that the United Arab Emirates has not issued a visa to the mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein. He was slated to attend a conference in the UAE and was to arrive on Sunday. A Palestinian official told the agency that the Palestinian authorities have been working on this, saying that a solution is on its way. Yet it is Wednesday...

Irony alert: Terrorist groups upset at being the target of a suicide bomber

Times of Israel reports: A suicide bomber killed a Hamas guard in southern Gaza early Thursday when forces tried to stop him from infiltrating into Egypt, members of the terror organization said, in what sources described as a rare attack against the Islamist group. “Early this morning security forces stopped two people approaching the southern border (with Egypt),”...

The Sodastream irony

If you put together everything that every "pro-Palestinian "activist has ever done for actual, real Palestinians.... If you tally all the specific things that Omar Barghouti and Max Blumenthal and Philip Weiss and Ali Abuminah and Greta Berlin and Ben White and every single member of Free Gaza, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, the BDS Movement, Students for Justice in Palestine,...