June 2018

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/06/l-aurore-archives-now-accessible-online.html Donations from the UK, Israel and France among others have enabled JPress (part of the National Library of Jerusalem) to digitise issues of the Egyptian-Jewish newspaper L’Aurore. What is remarkable about this newspaper  – a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/0627-links-pt2-democratic-gamble.htmlFrom Ian: Empress Trudy: Democratic Gamble: Calling People Nazis, the other N-Word Just like in Nazi Germany, before the Nazis were actually entrenched in their power, it became acceptable to devalue, mistreat, take away jobs […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/real-coexistence-israeli-hospital.html Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem (courtesy Barbara Sofer) If you want to experience the real Israel, go to the hospital. It’s where you’ll meet all kinds of Israelis, and hear all kinds of Hebrew. But you’ll […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/iran-workers-now-demanding-to-be-paid.htmlOur weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.  Check out their Facebook page. Isfahan, June 27 – Protesters gathered across the Islamic Republic today amid worsening financial and economic woes, and demanded that the country’s leadership […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/0627-links-pt1-gaza-crisis-israeli.htmlFrom Ian: The Gaza crisis, Israeli hasbara and the ICC In one of the most introspective moments, the foreign ministry spokesman admitted that they had contemplated quickly farming out terrorized Israeli residents living on the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/major-egyptian-newspaper-trashes-us.html Dostor (“Constitution,”) a major Egyptian newspaper that usually is opposed to the government, has a review of the US Holocaust Museum. Some of the more disgusting things in the article: The price of food […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/arabic-sites-gleefully-following.html It is difficult to find articles in English about the fires being set daily by incendiary kites and balloons from Gaza. But Palestine Today highlights them. 20 fires on Tuesday. 5 fires on Monday. 16 fires […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-camel-corps-gets-hump.htmlBy Daphne Anson   The prince and the president Photo: Amos Ben Gershom “It has been a profoundly moving experience to visit Yad Vashem today. It is almost impossible to comprehend this appalling event in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/06/artist-chooses-only-to-offend-jews-not.html Marisa Papen is an artist whose entire idea of art is to take off her clothes and get photographed around the world. When she visited Israel, however, she decided to push the envelope – […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/06/jewish-life-in-turkey-is-slowly-being.htmlTurkey feels like a dictatorship hiding in plain sight, writes Annika Rothstein  in this insightful piece in Rebel. Yet few Jews would have voted for anyone in the recent elections other than Prime Minister Erdogan, […]