2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/0123-links-pt1-fatah-parades-in-suicide.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: Fatah parades in “suicide belts” and raises knives at Ramallah rally Three recent events by Fatah and the Palestinian Authority reiterated the Palestinian leadership’s endorsement of violence and Martyrdom for Allah as […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/bds-modern-language-association-and-war.html Before going on hiatus, I published an extended essay called Like Romans that looks at the fight against BDS (and pro-Israel activism generally) through the lens of warfare. The starting point for that work […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/famous-quran-verse-whoever-kills-human.htmlWe have seen many times Islamic memes that resemble this: I came across a variant poster: I had never seen the caveat “unless it be for murder or spreading mischief in the land” before. And […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/trumps-inauguration-and-the-bad-losers-of-the-left/President Donald Trump’s inauguration took place on Friday accompanied by huge crowds of supporters, and – unusually – large and some violent anti-Trump demonstrations. The depth of the hatred for Trump has not surprised me […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/arab-mks-encouraging-martyrdom-over.html Last year, the trailer for a documentary named “My Home”  was released showing that Arab Israelis have a wide range of opinions about their state, with many of them being very patriotic. (I don’t […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/01/intellectual-and-journalist-menashe.html Menashe Somekh: modest and honest Iraqi Jews are mourning the passing last week of Menashe Somekh, a prominent intellectual and journalist. He died in Jerusalem aged 91 from cancer. Somekh, a descendant of Rabbi […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/7Sq13A6GUV4/23-jan-17-another-shalit-deal-outcome.html Malachi Rosenfeld, of blessed memory [Image Source] As reported Sunday via the Israeli web-based all-news video channel i24news.tv: Abdullah Ishaq, a Palestinian convicted in the 2015 drive-by shooting death of an Israeli man in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/dna-shows-where-people-in-arab.htmlNational Geographic has a project where they identify the true origin of “native” populations using DNA. I don’t know the exact methodology but the results are interesting. For example, and not surprisingly, most of Tunisia’s […]