April 2017

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/ZKmqFGiI0HM/14-apr-17-urge-to-stab-erupts-again-in.html Paramedics at the scene [Image Source] As busy, bustling and full of life as Israel’s capital is today during the Passover festival, there is a serious incident to report. The deep strategic reserves of […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/good-news-friday-new-baby-edition-3/This was going to be a Pesach-themed Good News Friday posting in honour of Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed which will start tonight. But as has happened several times in our family, the good news was interrupted […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/jordan-says-that-muslim-right-not-to-be.html Jordan signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1976. This covenant says Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or […]

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 […]