Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Thursday, January 28, 2016

01/28 Links Pt2: US Customs issues 'Reminder' WB Goods Cannot Be Marked 'Made in Israel'

From Ian: US requires Judea-Samaria goods to be labeled A mail from the Cargo Systems Messaging Service of the US Customs and Border Protection dated to this Saturday, and revealed by Channel 1's "Mabat" show on Thursday, shows the US is now required products from Judea and Samaria to be labeled differently. In new instructions on marking requirements sent out to American importers, goods from Judea and Samaria are not to be marked "Israel." Those...

Palestine News Network writes: According to the Institute of Palestine studies, [Palestinian Syrians fleeing to Europe] often remain without legal status at first. Those who have family members in Europe may have an easier time attaining residency, but even many of those with family networks must find a way through the bureaucratic hell that characterizes both the asylum...

Vic Rosenthal's weekly column: Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.—Pericles (Athens, c. 430 BCE)America hasn’t been invaded since 1812, and after the Civil War (which only peripherally involved other nations), all of its wars were fought on battlefields comfortably far away. The Imperial Japanese...

01/28 Links Pt1: Another UN disgrace; Commemorating dead Jews while hating the living

From Ian: Anne Bayefsky: UN fails to learn lessons of Holocaust. It focuses on showmanship Analogizing Palestinians to the Jewish victims of the Nazis: that’s how the UN is marking this week’s “International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.” The epicenter of modern antisemitism on a global scale is not somewhere over there, but in the middle of Turtle Bay. For public tour groups, and their busloads of impressionable...

Qatari newspaper Al Sharq published an article yesterday that says that the Jewish issue is the most serious issue today, especially the danger posed by Jews to the Islamic nation. Mustafa al-Maleh cites the Quran to say that the Jews have no religion nor ideology nor ethics nor humanity. Jews, we are told, only care about Jews and want to kill everyone else. They are...

Recenly, Vox.com released a video that claimed to explain the "Israel-Palestine" conflict in simple terms. It is filled with deceptions, omissions and lies. Others have taken it apart nicely in print. This was an experiment to see how easily I could create a video to critique another video in near real time. Yet even though I only look at the first 3 minutes of Vox's video,...

Yesterday I posted a report that showed that well over half of the antisemitic posts on Facebook remain even ten months after complaints are lodged. Yet it only took Facebook a day or so to remove a poster I created this week that was reposted by the Israel's Voice organization: Posts by the people who call these murderers heroes permeate Facebook, but pointing...

01/27 Link Pt2: The Holocaust started with words, not mass killings; Why a Kippah Generates Hate

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Lessons for today Lessons for today International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated today, is an occasion not just to reflect on the past but to marvel at the persistence and adaptability of Jew-hatred. The day falls on the anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest German death camp. But Holocaust remembrance ceremonies – particularly in Europe – tend to focus as much on current...

From the Online Hate Prevention Institute: A major new report prepared for the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism in Social Media”, highlights that not enough is being done to combat antisemitism in social media. The report, based on tracking over 2,000 items of antisemitism over the last 10 months, found that only 20% of...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Kfar Sava, January 27 - Inspired by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's refusal to condemn Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israelis, a high school senior accused of attacking his teacher today also characterized his act as legitimate resistance,...

01/27 Link Pt1: The Last Chance for Peace Fantasy; 300 attackers are not 'lone'

From Ian: David Horovitz: Rather than despair at the awfulness of it all As we look at the fresh graves of Dafna Meir and Shlomit Krigman, we must insist on seeking the most effective means to prevent the unconscionable loss of more wonderful people Dafna Meir and Shlomit Krigman. Two Israeli women — one a mother of six in her late 30s; the other about to turn 24, just setting out in life. Dafna, stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager at her...

From The National (UAE): Eight members of the militant group Hamas were missing Wednesday after the collapse of a tunnel in the Gaza Strip caused by rain and flooding, a security source said. The tunnel collapsed overnight in the area of Jabalia in the north of the Palestinian enclave after several days of rainfall, the security source in the area said on condition of...

Yes, it is outrageous that Ban Ki Moon essentially called terror attacks a natural result of "occupation," and Netanyahu was right in slamming him for it. But that wasn't the strangest part of the speech. The title of Ban Ki-Moon's talk was "Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East." There were 52 paragraphs in the speech according...

It happens every year, and sure enough this year is no exception. Whenever there are heavy rains and snow that flood Gaza, the Palestinians blame Israel for "opening dams" that don't exist. Al Watan Voice, Palestine News Network, Al Resalah, Palestine Times and many other Arab media outlets are saying: "Israeli" occupation forces on Saturday evening opened...

01/26 Links Pt2: Brendan O’Neill: The violence of the Safe Space; EU decision contradicts Oslo Accords

From Ian: Brendan O’Neill: The violence of the Safe Space Consider some recent examples from Britain, where students have built what they call Safe Spaces but which look to me more like Unsafe Spaces for those judged to hold the wrong views or to have the wrong attitudes. Last week at King’s College London, a meeting of pro-Israel students was invaded by anti-Israel activists. They smashed windows, set off a fire alarm, threw chairs around. They...