Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Fake Hamas statistics and plastic straws

Until today, I did not know this fact from The Free Press:The biggest environmentalist craze of my generation started in 2011 with Vermont 9-year-old Milo Cress cooking up an arbitrary number for how many plastic straws Americans used daily. This 9-year-old figured it was so many. He says he called up straw manufacturers and calculated 500 million a day. Boom, big number,...

From the UK Government website:Senior Muslim and Jewish denominational leaders in the UK have signed [11 February] a landmark agreement, The Drumlanrig Accord.The accord establishes a structured framework for sustained Muslim-Jewish collaboration, fostering deeper understanding and shared responsibility.Signed at Spencer House, the faith leaders subsequently presented a copy...

In November, a CIA analyst was arrested for distributing top secret intelligence about Israel's plans to attack Iran in October. From the Department of Justice, January 17:A former CIA analyst pleaded guilty today to retaining and transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information to people who were not entitled to receive it, information which was publicly posted on...

For months, the UN-OCHAOPT has faithfully reported Hamas statistics unless they were found to be completely bogus.One of those statistics was the supposed 10,000 presumed dead Gazans missing or under the rubble, as this February 4 infographic says:In its February 11 infographic, however, OCHA stopped reporting on that figure.Others have also reported on the "10,000 buried...

02/12 Links Pt2: Why Anti-Semitism Is Getting Younger; Majority of American Jews Believe Anti-Israel Campus Protests Are Anti-Semitic; Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK

From Ian: Why Jews are fleeing the West Over time, Jews attitudinal shifts will influence where they settle. According to Pew, 51 per cent of all Jewish immigrants are migrating to Israel. Many other more secular Jews are remaining, but simply melding into the general population and losing their religious identity. Given low birthrates and assimilation even among the large...

From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: Next, Defund the United Nations If an America-first approach means anything, it should be that the U.S. won’t pay international bureaucrats to do what it forbids its own employees to do. Most federal workers are at least U.S. citizens, voters and taxpayers. Employees at international organizations generally aren’t, and Elon Musk’s Department...

Arbel Yehoud with her partner Ariel Cunio, still captive in Gaza, and their rescue puppy, MurphDisclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.When Eli Sharabi appeared on our screens wasted, skeletal, like an apparition from the Holocaust, it broke our hearts. We knew he’d been through a Holocaust without...

From Variety:Several dozen pro-Palestine protesters gathered Tuesday outside the Hollywood premiere of “Captain America: Brave New World” and called for a boycott of the film over its inclusion of the Israeli superhero Ruth Bat-Seraph, aka Sabra, played by Shira Haas.Protesters held signs that read “Sabra has got to go,” “Disney supports genocide,” “Boycott ‘Captain America'”...

Over the past day, this video has been widely seen: 🚨 #BREAKING: NSW doctor and nurse stood down after chilling footage emerged of the pair claiming to have killed Israeli patients in Bankstown HospitalSIGN & SHARE petition at https://t.co/uGABTzsHcM demanding authrities:authorities1. publicity identify the pair2. lay… pic.twitter.com/RVlZ0OlZZE— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi)...

Sheikh Salem Al-Taweel is a Kuwaiti Salafi scholar and preacher who has been considered one of the more important Kuwaiti Salafi thinkers.He was recently attacked for an older fatwa where people accused him of saying "leave Palestine to the Jews." Last night he responded to the accusations, saying that he is saying that Gazans - and all Muslims - should have the right to migrate...

Right now (at least as of this writing Tuesday night) we have President Trump warning Hamas to release all hostages by Saturday noon, or "all hell will break out." Hamas refuses, falsely claiming that Israel hasn't held up its part of the deal and setting the stage to blame Israel if things get hot.Trump is also engaging in diplomacy of threats with Egypt and Jordan, demanding...