May 12, 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/are-biblical-scholars-that-ignorant-or.htmlFrom Haaretz: Can We Eat Bacon Now? Leviticus Was Written for Priests, Not You, Say Scholars The Book of Leviticus, the third book in the Old Testament, is considered something of an anomaly by some […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/0512-links-pt2-people-vs-haaretz-comedy.htmlFrom Ian: The People vs. Haaretz Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper. Admired by many foreigners and few Israelis, loathed by many, mostly Israelis. Read by few, denounced by many, it is a highly ideological, high-quality […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/palestinian-lie-of-day-longest-serving.html One of the more prominent (alleged)  hunger strikers is Karim Younis, 59, a terrorist who murdered Avraham Bromberg in 1980. He was originally sentenced in 1983 to life in prison but Shimon Peres commuted the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/remarkable-muslim-cleric-to-go-on-trial.htmlEgypt is hardly a paradigm of human rights, but human rights NGOs ignore some of the remarkable things that have been done under the current Egyptian leadership. From Al Ahram: A Cairo misdemeanor court has […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/good-news-friday-206/It’s been a busy week for me which explains the lack of posting since Sunday. However, it’s Friday again and time for a Good News Friday installment. Let’s start with a major hasbara victory for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/iranian-militia-leader-in-iraq.html From Arab News: A notorious sectarian leader in Iraq has claimed that the Shiite project of encircling and dominating the Middle Eastern states is on track.Delivering a speech in Arabic, at a graduation ceremony […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-palestinian-arab-tries-and-fails-to.htmlMany years ago, Dry Bones published this cartoon: Nada Elia at Middle East Eye claims to demolish this argument – and fails spectacularly. She believes that the questions themselves are illegitimate to begin with, but […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-mizrahi-israel-unnerves-us-jews.htmlIn his exploration of why American Jews are indifferent or even hostile to Israel, Daniel Gordis says they are unnerved by both the Judaism of the Mizrahim, and their unabashed nationalism. A must-read in Mosaic: […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-is-there-so-much-politics-in-arabic.htmlBy Daphne Anson   I’ve been browsing the Spring 2017 issue of the Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin.  It’s clear that along with all the other socio-political stances that comprise the often bizarre and contradictory (women’s […]