June 2018

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/hamas-praises-human-rights-watch-and.html On Sunday, Hamas issued a press release praising Human Rights Watch’s latest report blaming Israel for responding to violent Gaza riots: The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) received great satisfaction and high appreciation of Human […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/06/bahrain-shrugs-off-israel-attendance-at.html  An article attempting to embarass the Bahraini ruler by claiming he is ‘normalising’ relations with Israel has appeared in Middle East Eye. Bahrain responds that Israel is just one of the countries attending a […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/06/story-on-missing-syrian-judaica-is.htmlWith thanks: Boruch, Lily The veracity of an article by the Associated Press alleging that  Jewish artefacts have gone missing from the Syrian synagogue of Jobar has been lambasted as ‘conflated, inaccurate and confused.’ The […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/nikki-haley-explains-why-us-is-quitting.html From the Wall Street Journal, by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley: ————————There is an international organization whose members include the repressive regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and China. This organization recently added the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/0619-links-pt2-how-campus-bullies.htmlFrom Ian: How Campus Bullies Pulled Off the Anti-Israel BDS Movement A recently published collection of essays, Anti-Zionism on Campus, examines the clout of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at American institutions of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/stop-explaining-israels-right-to-self.html I am sick and tired. More than anything, I am mad. I am sick and tired of seeing cute stories of Israeli kids having kite festivals sending messages of peace and candy for Gazans. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/0619-links-pt1-triumph-of-reason-at.htmlFrom Ian: Noah Rothman: The Triumph of Reason at the United Nations This leads us to the UNHRC’s irredeemable flaw: Its institutional biases are so skewed in favor of murderers, dictators, and bigots that it […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/is-j-street-as-dedicated-to-israel-as.html Yesterday, I responded to Josh Malina on Twitter. Josh Malina, Wikipedia Malina supports J Street. Here is part of an email J Street sent out of Josh Malina actively campaigning for them: Those who […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/normalization-is-what-real-peace-looks.html One of the more bizarre contradictions from supposedly pro-Palestinian groups like “Jewish Voice for Peace” and the International Solidarity Movement and others is that while they all pretend to want peace, when something that […]