Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Don't call the Global March to Jerusalem anti-semitic!

Here is a picture on the Facebook page of the Global March to Jerusalem - Australian National Committee: But don't call them anti-semitic! They really hate that! This is actually a slightly edited version of a cartoon by known anti-semitic cartoonist Emad Hajjaj, a Palestinian Jordanian. The Global March to Jerusalem is planned for this Friday. Thousands of supposedly...

I found this nice paragraph in a lengthy New York Times Magazine article about Israel and the Arab world, written by Anthony Carthew (foreign correspondent for The Daily Mail,) December 18, 1966. ...

Pro-Palestinian NGO barred from Ramallah conference - for being Israeli

From The Times of Israel: Zochrot, a radical Israeli NGO that advocates the “right of return” of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel, has been forced to cancel a workshop in Ramallah due to Palestinian anti-normalization pressure placed on the organizers. Eitan Bronstein, Zochrot’s spokesman, told The Times of Israel on Wednesday that his organization was invited by a Quaker-run social club in Ramallah to present a counter-mapping project,...

From Kuwait Times: Protesters demanding tweeter's arrest. Yes, really. Police authorities yesterday arrested tweeter Hamad Al-Naqi and charged him with insulting the Prophet (PBUH), his wife Ayesha and his companions. But Naqi categorically denied the charges, alleging that his account has been hacked for some time and “there is no way for me to insult the prophet and...

"Jewish Voice for Peace" suddenly cares about free speech

A hilariously ironic press release from the so-called "Jewish Voice for Peace:" The national organization Jewish Voice for Peace is profoundly disappointed by the sudden cancellation of the upcoming Berkeley talk on “the Crisis of Zionism” by Daily Beast political writer Peter Beinart. Beinart withdrew yesterday following the Friday announcement by the East Bay Jewish Community Center (see statement below) that they were withdrawing sponsorship,...

Fatah/Hamas reconciliation efforts at a standstill. What will happen next?

Asharq al Awsat interviewed people involved in the negotiations between Hamas and Fatah after their much heralded "Doha Declaration" - and see that nothing has changed, nor is it likely to in the foreseeable future. According to statements made by senior officials of Fatah and Hamas, efforts are being made to resume the dialogue between the two groups on ways to implement the provisions of "the Doha Declaration". In fact, reconciliation and the...

"One of America's closest allies" (video)

Just watch it: (h/t SwissYanke...

US Ambassador visits Mea Shearim before Passover (video)

From the US Embassy in Israel:...

Park Slope BDS defeated/Buy Israeli Goods

The Park Slope BDS resolution was voted on and soundly defeated tonight, 61-39%, in yet another BDS Fail. So this is as good a time as any to remind you that the annual Buy Israeli Goods Day is this Friday. Here are a couple of ideas for shopping: For those interested in wine, the Israel Wine Company has a Wine Club where they will ship you six bottles of the finest Israeli wines either quarterly or monthly. Looks very interesting. Kidron Soaps...

A new "crisis of Zionism" every decade

1930s (Ben Gurion) 1940s (Hannah Arendt) 1950s (Mordechai Kaplan) 1960s (Life Magazine) 1970s (Moshe Davis) 1980s (Zvi Kasseh et. al.) 1990s (Zvi Sobel et. al.) 2000s (Shlomo Sharan et. al.) 2010s (Peter Beinart) Amazing that Zionism is still alive and kicking, isn't i...

How wonderful life was in Jerusalem when it was divided

As the "Global March to Jerusalem" gets closer (now the organizers are absurdly claiming 2 million marchers!) we can look back on how wonderful things were in Jerusalem when Jordan controlled half the city - the situation that the entire world seems to believe is the best solution. From Time, April 28, 1952, in an article entitled Strangled City: Jerusalem, holy city of three great religions, is dying from strangulation. The rope around its neck...

EoZ mentioned in a 419 scam?

Have I been outed? I just came across this, from the Banking Insurance Securities website: AML/CFT: the funniest 419 scam ever? Scam e-mails are nothing new and usually they are so boring they don't even register. But "Woolcock" paulwk@gmail.com 's "Money Transfer" scam mail is so amusing it justifies being included in the Fraud Hall of Fame. By the way, it was sent to an e-mail address at "countermoneylaundering.com." Twit. **PLEASE TREAT THIS...

From Al Arabiya: The third annual International Belly Dance Festival in Marrakech, has stirred controversy in Morocco after it was announced that Israel will partake in the event. The Mediterranean Delight Festival has been met by a surge of objections whether by Marrakech youths who refuse to have Israeli participants in their city or by rights organizations that oppose...

Hamas' Palestine Times website has a glowing tribute to the Hamas terrorist who detonated the suitcase bomb at the Park Hotel in Netanya ten years ago. Wikipedia describes the attack: During the Jewish holiday of Passover in 2002, Park Hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya held its traditional annual Passover seder (festive religious meal) for its 250 guests, in...

When you already control the press, the schools, the mosques, the trade unions, and every public gathering, what is here left to do to stop any vestige of freedom of expression? Why, the taxi drivers! Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have detained some 120 taxi drivers for allegedly spreading "rumors" about the Strip's worst power crisis in years. Gaza's attorney general confirmed...