January 2019

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/fifty-years-since-baghdad-hangings-of.htmlThis Sunday, 27 January marks 50 years since the hangings in Baghdad of nine Jews on trumped-up spying charges. (Dozens more Jews disappeared without trace. ) The event will be marked with special commemorations in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-biggest-bdsfail-that-you-never.htmlIn 2015, the BDS Movement was ecstatic over some economic news: “BDS was a major factor behind the 46% drop in foreign direct investment in Israel in 2014, according to a UN report,” the BDS […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0124-links-pt2-dont-believe-ilhan-omar.htmlFrom Ian: Don’t Believe Ilhan Omar She “unknowingly” offended Jews by saying that Israel hypnotized the world not to see its evil? Nonsense. In the Greater Middle East, from which Omar’s family hails, conspiracy theory […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/matti-friedmans-lens-and-sisyphean-mud.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Matti Friedman explains what should be obvious when he says that there is no Israeli-Palestinian conflict: There isn’t an Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the way that many outsiders seem to think, and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0124-links-pt1-pa-spent-at-least-502.htmlFrom Ian: PMW exclusive: PA spent at least 502 million shekels in payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018 As Israel is preparing to implement a new law that imposes financial sanctions on the PA for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/bibis-elastic-library.htmlThis week Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu released another of his excellent videos, this one describing how Israel is very supportive of the people of Iran, but not their regime. I noticed that in this and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/federal-judge-upholds-anti-bds-law-in.html From AP: A federal judge on Wednesday let stand an Arkansas law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, ruling that such a boycott is not protected by the First Amendment. U.S. […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/irans-holocaust-forces-jews-to-lead.htmlFor all the Iranian regime’s efforts to show that its small Jewish community are safe and protected, Majid Rafisadeh argued that Iran’s anti-Israel campaign and Holocaust denial has created a hostile environment leading Jews to […]