June 10, 2016

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/chag-sameach.html The holiday of Shavuot starts on Saturday night and (outside of Israel) it lasts two days. So I will not be posting anything until Monday night or Tuesday morning. Have a great holiday! We […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/0610-links-pt2-who-is-threatening.htmlFrom Ian: Caroline Glick: Israel rises in the East Unlike Britain, which was seamlessly replaced by the US as the leader of the free world in the aftermath of World War II, the US has […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/academic-fraud-of-day-benjamin-balthaser.html Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of English at Indiana University – and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace/Chicago. He wrote an op-ed for Crain’s Chicago Business: Of all the strange, self-defeating crusades undertaken […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/0610-links-pt1-explaining-palestinian.htmlFrom Ian: Explaining Palestinian “Heroes” The status quo has continued not because more houses or apartments are being built in existing Jewish communities in the West Bank or Jerusalem (almost all of which are in […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/06/commemorating-farhud-at-shavuot.html Here are more articles that have appeared in the news media to mark the 75th anniversary of the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad. Ben Cohen writes in JNS: Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/no-huffpo-governor-cuomo-is-not.html The Huffington Post has an article by an ACLU official: Gov. Cuomo’s BDS Blacklist Is An Affront To Free Expression New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order this week requiring state agencies […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/amnestys-twitter-followers-dont-care.html Here are the number of retweets for recent Amnesty International tweets from their @AmnestyOnline account: -Ireland’s ban on abortion violates human rights – ground-breaking UN ruling – 174-I fled war in Syria, was attacked […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/chag-shavuot-sameach-6/It’s hard to move from sadness to joy, but that is the story of the Jewish People since time immemorial. Tonight we are heading into the festival of Shavuot, which runs straight on from Shabbat, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/arabs-make-video-celebrating-ramadan.html This Arab dramatization of the Tel Aviv attack, based on false early reports that the shooters were disguised as religious Jews, was produced and released less than 24 hours after the murders.  It uses […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/06/baghdad-massacre-poem-read-in-knesset.html Yvonne Green reads her poem at the Lauderdale Road synagogue commemoration for the Farhud massacre in Baghdad. She later travelled to Jerusalem to read the poem in the Knesset (photo: Laurence Julius). Harif, the […]