October 28, 2016

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1028-links-pt2-bds-thugs-attack-israeli.htmlFrom Ian: Douglas Murray: The New Anti-Racist Racists There is a trait campaigning groups have that is well known. Once they have achieved their objective, they continue. Usually it is because there are people with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/please-answer-this-question-roger-cohen.htmlRoger Cohen writes in the New York Times about how awful Israel is for its policy of “occupation”:  There is agreement on very little in the fractious Holy Land, but on one issue there is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/saeb-erekat-calls-terrorists-heroes-too.html From Palestinian Media Watch: The Palestinian Authority often assures its people that among its top priorities is the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel – most of whom are convicted for terrorist crimes including […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/harassed-campus-speaker-hails-from-iraq.html  Hen Mazzig: family experienced Arab antisemitism By now many will have been shocked to hear what happened on a London university campus on the evening of 27 October, when the audience for a talk by […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/hold-presses-nothing-happened-in-qatar.html The New York Times reports:  The leaders of the two main Palestinian factions met on Thursday in the latest attempt to reconcile after a nine-year schism that has divided their people and complicated efforts […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/good-news-friday-186/The chagim are now well and truly behind us, and it’s back to normal programming (or what counts for normal in this household!). Tomorrow is Shabbat Bereishit, the Shabbat when we start reading the Torah […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/mahmoud-abbas-continues-to-act-as.html Official “moderate” Fatah logo, complete with weapons, hand grenade and map of all of Israel Fatah is planning to hold its Seventh Congress sometime next month. These rare meetings are very important because Fatah […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/torah-scrolls-smuggled-out-from-hostile.html This Torah scroll from Iraq was rededicated in 2015 (photo: MFA)  The Jerusalem Post reveals the unbelievable tales of Torah scrolls smuggled out of places hostile to Jews. It mentions two scrolls taken out of […]