May 2019

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2019/05/17/good-news-friday-eurovision2019-edition/It’s back to normal programming for now with this week’s Good News Friday installment. This week the news in Israel has been dominated, not by missiles or Iran or even the formation of a new […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/no-protests-in-gaza-today-i-guess.html The Palestinian Arab media today are missing something that was in every Friday for over a year: reports on the weekly Gaza “Great Return March.” There are no protests today. If they were popular […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/is-israel-guilty-of-most-attacks-on.htmlOmar Shakir of Human Rights Watch tweeted about a new study of attacks on health care in different countries in 2018, and he highlights a statistic to make it sound like Israel is far worse […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/rabbi-appointed-to-head-uae-jewish.html The first new community of the United Arab Emirates is to have a ‘chief rabbi’. But the duties of Rabbi Yehuda Sarna will not be pastoral, they will be to foster ‘interfaith dialogue’. JTA reports […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0516-links-pt2-phyllis-chesler-high.htmlFrom Ian: Prof. Phyllis Chesler: ‘High-minded culture’ is now rife with antisemitism People say that it is usually calm before a storm but I feel uneasy, unbalanced, uprooted, and set adrift in a dangerously familiar […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/beresheets-crash-site-photographed-bad.htmlThe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera took a photo of the crash site of the Israeli satellite Beresheet. It appears to have crashed from a low angle, leaving a trail. Here is a before and after satellite […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/does-rashida-tlaib-identify-more-as.html Rashida Tlaib, speaking at a Detroit rally in 2014, tells her audience that “We are Americans, too.” That “too” means that she, and they, identify primarily as Palestinian and only secondarily as Americans. This […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0516-links-pt1-madonna-confirmed-at.htmlFrom Ian: Madonna confirmed at last for Eurovision performance in Tel Aviv Madonna’s producers said in April the star would perform at the contest in Tel Aviv, which was designated the host city after Israeli […]