October 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/rising-to-bait-divest-this.html We Jews have been branded (or self-branded) with a number of names.  “People of the Book,” and “The Chosen People” are two of the most popular, although I’ve also heard us described as a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/avi-gabbays-settlement-stance-is.html Last week there was a bombshell in the Israeli political scene: Israel does not necessarily need to evacuate any West Bank settlements in a future peace deal with the Palestinians, Labor party leader Avi […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/anti-israel-propaganda-at-herald.html From this week’s Sunday Herald (Scotland) by Philippa Whiteford: Having worked with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) as a surgical volunteer in Gaza for a year and a half in 1991 and 92, I returned last […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/10/iraqi-jew-pleads-for-archive-not-to-go.html ‘It’s as if my lost history came back to life’, Joseph Samuels felt when he visited an exhibition of the Iraqi-Jewish archives in California. If the archive returns to Iraq, he fears, these historical treasures […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/arab-mk-hanin-zoabi-essentially-calls.html Earlier this month, Knesset MK Hanin Zoabi said that Jews are not a people and therefore have no right to self-determination, although Palestinians, mysteriously, do. That may not be the most outrageous thing she […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/10/david-singer-balfour-declaration.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: The continuing Arab refusal – aided and abetted by the United Nations – to recognise the […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/10/strictly-satire.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Read all about it here

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/after-complaints-some-arab-papers.htmlI reported last week on an article that (not very accurately) described 10 “Jewish” foods that Arabs enjoy. Among those foods were some that are generally considered to have had Arab origins before Israeli Jews […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/10/1022-links-syrian-barrage-message.htmlFrom Ian: In Syrian barrage, a confident message signed by Iran and Russia It’s not clear if the sudden barrage of rockets “bleeding” into Israel from Syria Saturday had anything to do with the presence […]