July 2016

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/KoX38uEf9j0/22-jul-16-heavy-handed-swedish-efforts.html In “Watching the Moon at Night”, Clara Rojas, freed from FARC captivity in Colombia describes her years of suffering at the hands of the terrorists A really fine piece of documentary cinema made by acclaimed Swedish filmmakers Bo Persson […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/surprise-new-unhrc-special-rapporteur.html Barely reported earlier this month: United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk will undertake his first official mission from 10 to 15 July to gather first-hand information on the current human rights situation in the […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/CxgRPOyGY68/22-jul-16-who-says-bbc-never-calls.html Currently appearing on the BBC website (if it has changed by the timeyou click, here’s the archived version) Regular readers of this blog, and of the much-more focused and excellent BBC Watch, will be […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/07/another-jew-emerges-in-pakistan.htmlPoint of No Return exclusivePakistan does not recognise Judaism and there were no known Jews living in Pakistan until Fishel Benkhald embarked on the struggle to self-identify. Now another young Jew, Aryeh Ben Samuel, has […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/you-wont-believe-this-palestinian.htmlDaoud Kattab is a well-known (and award-winning) journalist who writes for Al Monitor and elsewhere, and has published in major media outlets. Writing in Byline, he has an article “THE FALSE BALANCE BETWEEN THE ISRAELI […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/0721-links-pt2-will-anti-israel.htmlFrom Ian: David Collier: The day I met Islamophobia It was the terror attack in Nice that finally made me realise what real Islamophobia is. It is the fear of silence that Islamism generates within […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/american-studies-association-sued-for.html I mentioned that New York attorney David Abrams filed a lawsuit against the National Lawyers Guild for discrimination, under the legal theory that an Israeli organization is considered a “person” under New York anti-discrimination […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/jV7EWW6JBGo/21-jul-16-lone-wolf-truck-ramming.html The weapon in the Bastille Day massacre in Nice, France[Image Source] What we know, or were told we know, or thought or suspected we knew turns out – almost as we watch – to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-republican-platform-gets-israel.html    Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Everyone knows that party platforms are just for atmosphere. They bind nobody to anything, and are quickly forgotten after the election. But I must say that the Republican platform plank on […]