March 2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/womens-day-in-israel-forest-rain.html Last weekend we celebrated International Women’s Day. In Israel feminist discourse is probably similar to that of other western countries, with our own unique twist. Our media is full of panels, consisting almost entirely […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/0311-links-pt1-failure-of-palestinian.htmlFrom Ian: The Failure of Palestinian Nationalism At last month’s American-backed Middle East summit in Warsaw, the Palestinian issue remained conspicuously absent as Arab leaders appeared side-by-side with Benjamin Netanyahu. Alex Joffe explains why, after […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/chemi-shalev-at-haaretz-blames-bibi-for.html Chemi Shalev isn’t considered one of Haaretz’s real far left nutcases like Amira Hass or Gideon Levy or Rogel Alpher. He is considered one of their best political analysts. Which just goes to show […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/03/israel-court-rejects-farhud-demand-for.html According to the Jerusalem Post, two Iraqi-Israeli petitioners have suffered a setback when their demand for compensation for their suffering arising from the 1941 Farhud was rejected by the Supreme Court. The Court  denied that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-next-prime-minister-of-palestinian.html Yesterday, Mahmoud Abbas appointed a new prime minister, who now has two weeks to form a government. Unlike the last prime minister Rami Hamdallah, this one – Mohammed Ashtayeh – is a member of Fatah, […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-chabad-saved-1800-jewish-children.htmlA largely unknown operation to rescue Jewish children from Iran began in the spring of 1979. The children travelled without their parents and were housed with families  of the Chabad – Lubavitch community in Brooklyn, […]