May 2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0521-links-pt2-rashida-tlaib-and-trojan.htmlFrom Ian: Rashida Tlaib and the Trojan horse of antisemitic tropes After seeing the weak condemnation following Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s latest revisionist comments about the creation of Israel and the Holocaust, everything I have been […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/todays-arab-media-antisemitism.html In Jordanian news site Sawaleif, Dr. Hussein Omar Touqah who is called a “researcher in strategic studies and national security” discusses a set of strategic principles that Israel has supposedly adopted. There are a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/people-who-speak-truth-to-power-like.html Amnesty tried to get some more interest in the Nakba site they created that apparently didn’t get enough traffic to justify its expense, and I responded: 57+ years since @Amnesty was founded, and it […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0521-links-pt1-fatah-posted-offensive.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: Fatah posted offensive Holocaust video after Al-Jazeera condemned and removed it On May 18, 2019, Al-Jazeera journalists produced an offensive report on the Holocaust. It accused Israel of “having benefitted the most […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/film-traces-geniza-story-until.html The Times of Israel reports on a new film about the Cairo Geniza, a unique collection of Jewish documents preserved in the attic at the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo  and discovered at the end […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/no-mairavz-neo-nazis-and-white.htmlA tweet from far left Mairav Zonszein: Anti-Semitic crime and hate crime rose by 20% last year in Germany. The report found that nine in 10 anti-Semitic offenses were committed by people on the far-right […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/three-israeli-values-that-made.htmlBy Forest Rain The Eurovision is one of the largest events in the world. Larger than the Super Bowl, the Eurovision brings together 200 million viewers every year. The Olympics and the World Cup are […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-palestinian-refusal-to-help-their.html Recently, the US announced that the first part of the “Deal of the Century” – an economic plan to help Palestinians – would be unveiled in an economic conference in Bahrain next month. Not […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0520-links-pt2-hen-mazzig-no-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Hen Mazzig (L.A. Times): No, Israel isn’t a country of privileged and powerful white Europeans Along with resurgent identity politics in the United States and Europe, there is a growing inclination to frame […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/plos-erekat-complains-to-germany-about.htmlFor the anniversary of Israel’s membership in the UN, the foreign ministry of Germany sent this message: Seventy years ago today, on 11 May 1949, Israel was admitted to the UN as a full member. […]