March 2017

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/03/tunisians-foil-smuggling-of-rare-torah.html There is nothing more precious to a Jewish community than its Torah scrolls: that is why Jews on the run always try and take their scrolls with them. The Tunisian authorities are now the self-proclaimed […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/0313-links-pt2-dirty-little-secret-of.htmlFrom Ian: The Dirty Little Secret of Palestinian Journalism – with Agence France-Presse Collusion Nasser Abu Baker, Chairman of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), who also works as a correspondent for Agence France-Press (AFP), also […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/of-course-mahmoud-abbas-fatah-praises.htmlThis morning a Palestinian Arab stabbed two Israeli policemen multiple times. They killed him. Naturally, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah is extolling him as a “martyr” and making sure that his act is viewed as a religious […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/jews-as-child-killers-antisemitic.html By Petra Marquardt-Bigman Ali Abunimah and his Electronic Intifada colleague Asa Winstanley marked last week’s International Women’s Day by denouncing a Reuters report that described “Israel’s women combat soldiers” as being “on [the] frontline of […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/03/maryland-to-host-iraqi-jewish-archive.html The future of the Iraqi-Jewish archive, the collection of documents shipped to the US for restoration in 2003, has still not been resolved: Iraq wants it back as its national heritage. However, the announcement that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/0313-links-pt1-israel-bars-entry-to.htmlFrom Ian: Israel bars entry to British activist over BDS support The Chairman of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a pro-BDS organization, was denied entry into Israel Sunday night. In a joint statement the Interior Ministry’s […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/bds-at-extremes-divest-this.html A story in Commentary about choices and behaviors within anti-Trump organizations pointed me towards this interesting (and accessible) piece of academic research that discusses experiments on the impact extreme tactics have on popular support […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-to-prove-that-bds-is-antisemitic.htmlThe Jerusalem hotel I am staying in is in the neighborhood of French Hill, which is considered an “illegal settlement” by B’Tselem and most of the world. Before 1967, French Hill was a Jordanian military […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/mwBYGbB0lDk/13-mar-17-jerusalem-and-knife-men.html The Old City and Lions’ Gate [Image Source] At about 4 this morning (Monday) there was a slightly elevated police presence in Israel’s capital city because in Jerusalem it’s the festive day of Purim. […]