June 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/is-reform-judaism-religion-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column It probably won’t be the last time I shake my head at how the US Reform movement (I’m including the much smaller liberal branch of the Conservative movement)  has replaced Judaism […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/nytimes-again-trots-out-lies-and-fake.htmlNathan Thrall in the New York Times has an op-ed blaming Israel for every problem, as usual. Fact free sentences like this abound: For American politicians, electoral and campaign finance incentives still dictate a baseline […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-personal-memory-of-being-spectator-of.htmlBy Daphne Anson   To mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War of 1967, I’m honoured to present a very interesting guest blog by retired British academic Brian Goldfarb. It’s entitled “A Personal […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/slate-quotes-bogus-hrw-lebanon.html Slate magazine has a backgrounder on why people find Gal Gadot’s Jewishness and/or Israeli citizenship so upsetting to some. While the article isn’t so bad on balance, it includes this little tidbit. Gadot’s origins […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/another-terror-attack-in-london/Another vicious terror attack took place in London last night. Once again it was a vehicle-ramming: a van driven by 3 men plowed into pedestrians on London Bridge, killing 6 innocent people. When the van […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/06/nazi-radio-incitement-helped-cause.html As we mark the 76th anniversary of the Farhud massacre of hundreds of Jews in Iraq, Edy Cohen writes a BESA Centre Paper arguing that one of the causes was the continuous propaganda broadcast by […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/jibril-rajoub-denies-saying-israel.html From Times of Israel: A top Palestinian official said Saturday that the Palestinians recognize the Western Wall as a Jewish holy site that must remain under Jewish sovereignty. The comments from Fatah Central Committee […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/0603-links-pa-official-jews-must-be.htmlFrom Ian: Charles Krauthammer: Israel and Palestine are a sideshow to the real Middle East peace process That would suggest an outside-in approach to Arab-Israeli peace: a rapprochement between the Sunni state and Israel (the […]