April 13, 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/0413-links-pt2-quantifying-israeli.htmlFrom Ian: Camera: Quantifying the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’s Importance to Middle East Turmoil For decades, attention has been lavished on the Palestinians, bestowing upon this small segment of the Arab world an exaggerated importance. As a […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/04/iranian-muslim-bigotry-is-still-alive.html Some prejudices never die: Gina Nahai is still coming across Iranian Muslims who still think Jews are ritually impure.  Read her article in the Jewish Journal:(with thanks: Malca) In the 1980s, at a dinner […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/celebrating-liberation-in-gush-etzion.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column In September of this year, Israel plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan heights. The main event will be held at Kibbutz […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/04/13/how-academics-think-about-freedom-of-speech-fisking-the-email-that-killed-phyllis-cheslers-talk-on-shame-murders/In preparing an article on how Phyllis Chesler, one of the few scholars and feminists to tackle the problem of honor-killings/shame murders in the Muslim world (and elsewhere, eg, Hindus in India, Sikhs to a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/israeli-peace-moves-have-made-abbas.html Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech to a meeting of PLO ambassadors in Bahrain on Wednesday. One part of his speech is very telling: What is even more important is that Israel […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/plo-politicizing-easter-to-make.htmlThe PLO released a paper called “Celebrating Easter: 50 Years of Israel’s Colonization of Occupied East Jerusalem.” As can be expected, it is filled with half-truths in order to turn the world’s Christians against Israel. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-american-jewry-is-disappearing.htmlPew Research Center has an analysis of the differences between the American Jewish community and Israeli Jews. While it doesn’t come to any conclusions about the futures of both communities, some of the specifics in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/0412-links-fatah-promised-land-land.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: “Promised Land” = Land where Jews will be exterminated When Fatah-run Awdah TV asked Palestinians about their views regarding US President Donald Trump’s “rise to power”, one woman explained that “Jews” mistakenly […]