2017

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/03/maryland-to-host-iraqi-jewish-archive.html The future of the Iraqi-Jewish archive, the collection of documents shipped to the US for restoration in 2003, has still not been resolved: Iraq wants it back as its national heritage. However, the announcement that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/0313-links-pt1-israel-bars-entry-to.htmlFrom Ian: Israel bars entry to British activist over BDS support The Chairman of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a pro-BDS organization, was denied entry into Israel Sunday night. In a joint statement the Interior Ministry’s […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/bds-at-extremes-divest-this.html A story in Commentary about choices and behaviors within anti-Trump organizations pointed me towards this interesting (and accessible) piece of academic research that discusses experiments on the impact extreme tactics have on popular support […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-to-prove-that-bds-is-antisemitic.htmlThe Jerusalem hotel I am staying in is in the neighborhood of French Hill, which is considered an “illegal settlement” by B’Tselem and most of the world. Before 1967, French Hill was a Jordanian military […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/mwBYGbB0lDk/13-mar-17-jerusalem-and-knife-men.html The Old City and Lions’ Gate [Image Source] At about 4 this morning (Monday) there was a slightly elevated police presence in Israel’s capital city because in Jerusalem it’s the festive day of Purim. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/after-reform-leaders-bask-in-abbas-glow.htmlI noted on Friday that American Reform Judaism leaders met with Mahmoud Abbas, and from all reports they found that they agreed with nearly everything he said. Union of Reform Judaism president Rick Jacobs emphasized […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/real-life-purim-joke-irans-fm-says.htmlFrom Javad Zarif’s Twitter: Yes, Zarif is saying that the man who eagerly signed the decree calling for the genocide of the Jews of Persia is a hero for later countermanding that decree at his […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/haaretz-declares-all-of-israel-to-be.htmlAs bad as reading Haaretz online is, it is more disgusting to see it on paper. Here is a headline from Sunday’s edition. I honestly couldn’t read the entire (full page broadsheet) article itself because the headline […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/03/0312-links-murderer-of-7-schoolgirls.htmlFrom Ian: Daily Mail: A sick new low for foreign aid: Palestinian boys and girls pretend to execute an Israeli soldier – as teachers at schools funded by YOU tell their pupils that terrorists are […]