December 10, 2018

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/12/call-for-return-of-louvre-paintings-to.html With thanks: Boruch Magda Haroun, the head of the tiny Jewish community of Egypt, has asked for four paintings in the Louvre in Paris to be ‘returned’ to Egypt. The paintings were owned by an […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/1210-links-pt2-pa-payments-to.htmlFrom Ian: JCPA: Palestinian Authority Payments to Terrorists in 2018 The detailed Palestinian Authority budget for 2018 that was published recently has new details about the allocations to arrested terrorists and the families of those […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/if-you-dont-support-issam-aqels-human.html Today is Human Rights Day. And it is also a day that shows how hypocritical most human rights organizations are. Issam Aqel holds American citizenship. He bought a share in a property in Jerusalem […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/personal-boycotts-divest-this.html During a decade and a half of helping fight the BDS “movement,” I’ve been asked many times if I have ever personally boycotted any person, institution or product for political reasons.  Looking back, I […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/1210-links-pt1-pregnant-woman.htmlFrom Ian: Pregnant woman critically injured, six others hurt in West Bank shooting A pregnant woman was left in critical condition and six others suffered moderate or light injures in a terror attack Sunday evening, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pulling.html From JPost: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of 435 members of the incoming US House of Representatives, said on Monday that members of her family were Sephardim who were forced to flee to Puerto Rico during […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/from-left-and-right-highlights-of.htmlA new report on European antisemitism shows that the problem is pervasive – and not in the least confined to being coming from the far right. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights surveyed 16,000 […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/bds-is-so-moral-eldertoons.htmlFrom Times of Israel: A Pink Floyd cover band has canceled scheduled appearances in Israel amid a storm of harassment and mounting pressure from boycott activists that followed a call from the original band’s co-founder […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/12/my-refugee-grandparents-never-played.htmlMoving reflections by Philippe Assouline, a Canadian Jew, on the trials and  tribulations endured by his Moroccan-born grandparents. Never once did they complain as they rebuilt their lives from discomfort and destitution. My parents and […]