February 2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/free-palestine-movement-calls-to-expel.htmlThe Free Palestine Movement was behind the 2011 flotilla to Israel and styles itself as a progressive peace movement that is pro-Palestinian. They said in a November newsletter that they will offer new members of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/did-israel-reject-saudi-peace-proposal.html Barak Ravid has a phenomenal scoop, published in Axios: On the last day of the 2014 Gaza War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret meeting with a special envoy from the Saudi king. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-hypocrisy-over-ilhan-omar-continues.htmlThe way that so many people continue to defend Ilhan Omar is stunningly hypocritical. The most-often seen defense is that Omar wants to simply open up a conversation about how money can corrupt politics, and […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/02/why-i-cannot-stay-silent-about-irans.htmlKarmel Melamed is a journalist with Jewish Journal of LA. On the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution he explains why he will never stop writing about the horrors visited upon the Jews of Iran […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/ori-ansbacher-light-freedom-and-jewish.htmlInspiration from Zion – by Forest Rain My Facebook feed is full of Ori’s photo. She looks different in the different images but in each her radiant smile is the same. Ori, “my light” in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0212-links-pt2-we-already-know-ilhan.htmlFrom Ian: The Democratic Double Standard for Anti-Semitism The problem for Democrats here is not only moral but political. Calling for Northam’s resignation was a low-cost engagement—at least, it was before it was learned that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/chilling-documentary-night-at-garden.html This is only 7 minutes long. You will not forget it. In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/list-of-antisemitic-dog-whistles.html Dog whistle politics is defined as the use of certain code words or phrases that are designed to be understood by only a small section of the populace. Generally speaking, these are phrases that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0212-links-pt1-kontorovich-for-aclu.htmlFrom Ian: Eugene Kontorovich (WSJ): For the ACLU, Antipathy to Israel Trumps Antidiscrimination The ACLU has long argued that although private parties have the right to refuse to do business with people for ideological reasons, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/when-is-apology-not-apology-eldertoons.htmlA cartoon I tweeted yesterday: I also tweeted this from Wikipedia about the different types of fake apologies out there (“fauxpologies”) that Ilhan Omar’s apology fit the definitions of: Tactical apology—when a person accused of […]