January 29, 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/unsg-statement-on-holocaust-remembrance.html From the UN website The new UN Secretary General, António Guterres, gave a very good speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here it is: Today is a day to remember, reflect and look forward. We are […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/01/29/7015/French translation of my article, “‘Celebrating’ Orientalism,” by Magali Marc and published at Dreuz. La culture d’honneur et de honte chez les Arabes musulmans Traduit par MAGALI MARC le 29 JANVIER 2017     Pour les lecteurs […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/baroness-jenny-tonge-reveals-her-idiocy.html From The JC: Baroness Jenny Tonge has claimed that she was “interrogated”, after taking part in an interview where she found it difficult to name any books she had read on the Palestinian conflict […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/0129-links-mouse-that-roars-5-common.htmlFrom Ian: JPost Editorial: The mouse that roars As suspense builds over whether US President Donald Trump will fulfill his campaign promise to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, the Palestinian […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/as-sharia-as-apple-pie-michael-lumish.html Women’s March poster (2017) Future historians may find the recent “Women’s March” interesting for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that it nicely illustrates the tensions between the ideals of multiculturalism […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/01/trump-ban-could-touch-jews-from-muslim.html Israeli Jews born in Muslim lands may be barred from entering the US even if they have only Israeli citizenship. This is one of the effects of the ban signed by Donald Trump on travellers […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/facebook-lies-to-israelis-reporting.htmlAdi Amsterdam, an Israeli activist, set up an event for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Facebook asking people to report antisemitic Holocaust-denial Facebook pages. After first claiming that the pages didn’t violate community standards, it looked […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2017/01/getting-back-to-strategic-basics/— From a 1981 RAND Corporation report on “Israel’s Strategic doctrine.” The authors explain that this doctrine was developed because of Israel’s small size and lack of strategic depth, her small population compared to her […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-one-week-trump-report-card.html We’ve had the new President for a week. What do we know? Not a whole lot. We certainly know that the amount of anti-Trump hysteria is off the charts. The amount of, yes, fake […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/01/sudanese-jews-look-back-with-nostalgia.htmlAlmost nothing is left today of the Jewish community of Sudan. It was the smallest in the Arab world, composed mainly of recent arrivals from  the Ottoman empire and under British control, but ‘blowback’  from […]