January 2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/its-my-party-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column It’s my party… As everyone knows, Israel has way too many political parties. In the last election, ten parties made it past the 3.25% cutoff into the Knesset. In all, twenty-five parties contended […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0103-links-pt1-goodbye-unesco-elbit.htmlFrom Ian: JPost Editorial: Goodbye UNESCO Israel’s decision – along with the US – to leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on January 1 is extraordinary. It represents a loss for UNESCO […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/jordan-is-not-only-mideast-country-us.htmlWe know that Jordan has failed to extradite the Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi — the mastermind of the Sbarro massacre — to the US, despite an extradition treaty that Jordan has honored in the past. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-academic-fraud-and-obnoxious-editor.htmlProfessor Katherine Franke of Columbia University – whom we have mentioned before – wrote last month about the completely fictional “Pro-Israel Push to Purge US Campus Critics.” The article is riddled with half truths and errors, […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/jeremy-corbyns-antisemitism-dates-back-over-30-years/Most Jeremy Corbyn supporters claim that “he hasn’t got an antisemitic bone in his body” (whatever an antisemitic bone would look like). Another theory is that the antisemitism scandal in Labour is a relatively new […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/gaza-fishermen-shooting-themselves-in.html According to the Palestine Times, Israel has changed the area that Gaza fishing boats can go. It used to be 9 miles out to sea, but (apparently for security reasons) Israel has reduced it […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0102-links-pt2-deal-that-disappeared.htmlFrom Ian: The deal that disappeared Historian Kobby Barda has found a lost chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After World War II, the U.S. gave Israel and Arab nations $1.5 billion to solve the Middle […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/egypt-to-preserve-unique-jewish.htmlFollowing an announcement that it was spending 71 million dollars to preserve religious sites,  the Egyptian government appears to be extending its scope to cover Jewish cemeteries. Egyptian Streets has the story (with thanks: Boruch): […]