April 4, 2017

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/04/dont-cry-for-ashkenazi-elite-in-israel.htmlReports that the Ashkenazi cultural elite in Israel has lost its hegemony to Mizrahim have been exaggerated, argues Rami Kimchi in this provocative piece for Haaretz. Their experience in Europe is making them panic unnecessarily […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/0404-links-pt2-rasmeas-exit-stage-left.htmlFrom Ian: Caroline Glick: Leaving the big tent The divide between Israelis and American Jews seems to be growing. Indications of the widening gap came last week with reports of a confrontation between an American […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/90-of-major-wildfires-were-set-by-arabs.html Ran Shelef is the head of the Arson and Explosion forensics crime unit of the Israel Police. In an interview with Mida magazine (Hebrew), Shelef says that of the large wildfires that swept through Israel […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/j-street-u-fantasizes-that-bds-wouldnt.htmlJ-Street sent out an email from Brooke Davies, president of J Street U, after the anti-BD conference at the UN last week. She writes: Two days ago, I was part of a J Street U […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/0404-links-pt1-over-100-killed-in.htmlFrom Ian: Over 100 killed in suspected chemical attack in Syria A suspected chemical attack in Syria’s northern Idlib province Tuesday killed over 100 people and wounded over 400 others, Syrian opposition groups reported. The […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/un-agency-getting-ready-to-make-israel.html Back in 2003, an Egyptian legal scholar claimed he was going to sue Jews around the world for allegedly having stolen gold during the Jewish exodus from Egypt. The scholar, Nabil Hilmy, even figured […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/everyones-getting-it-wrong-new-hamas.htmlMa’an writes: While a draft version of Hamas’ new charter has raised questions over whether the movement would explicitly accept a Palestinian state along pre-1967 borders, the document will make clear that “our rivalry is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/indian-imam-to-be-fined-deported-from.html From Channel News Asia:  An imam who made controversial remarks against Christians and Jews during his Friday sermon at a mosque was on Monday (Apr 3) handed a fine of S$4,000, after pleading guilty […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/04/film-maker-travels-from-brooklyn-to.html Lebanese-born Rabbi Elie Abadie holding a family photo (Stepfeed) Stand by for a new film about the Jews of Lebanon. Rola Khayyat’s ‘From Brooklyn to Beirut’, here described by Nadine Mazloum in Stepfeed, tells […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/qXU83DeJgB4/04-apr-17-something-you-rarely-read.html Image Source: Getty Times of Israel has a report today [“Jailed Fatah terrorist organizing hunger strikes, protests“] by Avi Issacharoff, its high-profile Middle East analyst, that focuses on the latest manouveurings by Marwan Barghouti to […]