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Monday, March 29, 2021

03/29 Links: As Passover begins, Jews feel unwelcome in the EU; Almost all remaining Jews in Yemen deported; Yet another attempt to sanitize anti-Zionism; Winston Churchill in Palestine – 100 years on

From Ian: As Passover begins, Jews feel unwelcome in the EU Passover, which commemorates the Hebrews' liberation from enslavement in ancient Egypt, begins this weekend. But many European Jews don't feel like celebrating. Many feel that their religious freedoms are being eroded. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign minister, recently said pandemic safety measures...

Chag sameach!

Wishing all of you a chag kosher v'sameach!Being in the Diaspora, I will not be blogging, or tweeting, until Monday night. Wish me luck! ...

From Ian: Polish Catholic family, killed by Nazis for helping Jews, on path to beatification Early on March 24, 1944, a Nazi patrol surrounded the home of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma on the outskirts of the village of Markowa in southeast Poland. They discovered eight Jewish people who had found refuge with the couple and executed them. The Nazi police then killed the pregnant...

Soudia4 is a Saudi news site that seems to be oriented towards religious Muslims. It is most popular in Egypt and Yemen.One recent article has a list of (probably fake) quotes from Adolf Hitler, treating him as if these sayings are words of wisdom.It introduces the article with:Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 AD, and he was the leader of Germany and defeated most of Europe with...

From Ian: Dore Gold: Recalibrating the diplomacy of Middle East peace THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY part of their proposals involve a recalibration of Palestinian national goals. They admit that chances of securing “hard” sovereignty,” on the basis of “full and complete control over land, borders and resources” is remote. They clearly have no use for the resolutions of the UN General...

Ahron Shapiro, Senior Policy Analyst for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, noticed something amazing that got no coverage during the Israeli elections.From his Twitter thread:thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="AhronRShapiro" data-tweet="1375280595639562241" dir="auto" id="tweet_1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;...

We can learn a lot about the Biden administration position in Palestinian issue from what US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at the UN Security Council yesterday.From the UN summary:The representative of the United States, Council President for March, spoke in her national capacity, expressing Washington, D.C.’s, support for Israel. The Biden Administration...

At first blush, the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism does not seem very different from the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism that its framers want to replace. Both of them stress that their examples of antisemitism depend entirely on context.IHRA introduces its examples by saying, "Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the...

03/25 Links Pt2: Why Israel’s ‘Critics’ Can’t Help Being Antisemitic, and How They Can Stop; NGOs ask court to force Israel to provide vaccines for all Palestinians

From Ian: Why Israel’s ‘Critics’ Can’t Help Being Antisemitic, and How They Can Stop The problem that all anti-Israel liberals and progressives must face, however, is that Palestinian nationalism is not and has never been liberal or progressive. It has always been a racist movement that fundamentally dehumanizes the Jews. From the 1920s on, it has employed the pogrom and...

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We've been told countless times this year that Israel is a racist, apartheid state because it doesn't allow Palestinians to vote, even though Israel has great influence over their lives.It turns out that Palestinian law has a specific provision that anyone with Israeli citizenship cannot vote. Israeli lives are very much affected by whomever is running the Palestinian...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, March 25 - A customer at a cut-price chain retailer voiced her consternation today upon discovering not only that the miniature books of Psalms she had purchased as spiritual devices to ward off misfortune contained not the Hebrew poetry of King David and others,...

From Ian: With near-final results in, Netanyahu appears once again short of majority With 4,429,518 total votes tallied — more than the original estimated turnout, which appears to have been an undercount — there are no changes in the results, and no candidate has an obvious path to the premiership. According to statements from today by the Central Elections Committee, it...

From Medscape:A coronavirus vaccine that could be taken as a pill may enter clinical trials in the second quarter of 2021.The oral vaccine is being developed by Oravax Medical, a new joint venture of the Israeli-American company Oramed and the Indian company Premas Biotech, Business Insider reported.So far, all vaccines in use are delivered by injection. One advantage...

Back in 2009, I took some religious Zionist commentary and made my own Haggadah. You can print it out and use it for the Seder (and I have indeed done that!)Elder of Ziyon Haggadah 5769 by Eldad Tzioni Last year, an EoZ reader asked if I could add transliteration on key parts of the Haggadah so his family could use it. Here is the result:: Please download and enjoy! ...