May 2016

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/four-arrested-after-jews-airlifted-from.html Here’s a story that’s a few weeks old now, and we hope it had a happy ending: Sandy Rashty of the Jewish Chronicle reports on the arrest of four people in Yemen in the wake […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/05/david-singer-un-security-council-moves.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: Image credit:venturesafrica.com Ending the plague of anonymity on the Internet seems closer to fruition following moves […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/moroccan-jews-protest-for-occupied.htmlUsing the Jews as an instrument of foreign policy is not a new strategy for Morocco – it bolsters the legitimacy of the royal family in the eyes of the West. But rarely has the […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/WwRo-cCXPik/13-may-16-case-of-ongoing-gullibility.html A written question, asked in the British parliament’s House of Lords ten days ago on a subject that ought to be getting much more attention, has just been answered. The subject: Overseas aid and […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/polyglot-jew-wrestles-with-identity.html Eloquent article in Lilith magazine by a Sephardi Jew from Spanish-speaking Morocco about her ‘identity crisis’, caused by speaking too many European languages. One detects more than a hint of post-colonial guilt here, yet multilingualism […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/good-news-friday-167/Yom Ha’atzmaut has just finished and here we are, going straight into Shabbat, so it’s time to celebrate with another Good News Friday post. Since we’re still in the flag-waving patriotic mood, now is a […]

https://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/jewish-support-swinging-toward-liberal-party-in-australian-election/comment-page-1/#comment-6029[…] Jewish support swinging toward Liberal Party in Australian election […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/new-statesman-how-longest-hatred-took.htmlSuccinct analysis of the roots of antisemitism by Brendan Sims and Charlie Laderman, all the more remarkable for appearing in the left-leaning New Statesman. Here is the extract from The Longest  Hatred about anti-Semitism in the Middle East (with […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/chag-atzmaut-sameach-happy-68th-independence-day-israel/It’s Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, and, as remarked upon by both local and foreign observers, the country swings in a schizophrenic kind of way from the mourning, sorrow and remembrance of Yom Hazikaron to […]