June 2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/egyptian-academic-writes-in-popular.htmlYoum7 (Seventh Day) is one of Egypt’s most popular newspaper sites and one of the top 300 Internet sites worldwide, with roughly the same world rank as Buzzfeed. Over the weekend it published an astonishingly […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0630-links-with-their-repeated.htmlFrom Ian: With Their Repeated Rejections, Palestinians Risk Total Irrelevance Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, shocked Jewish leaders at a closed-door meeting in New York last year. “In the last several decades, the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/more-palestinian-cartoons-against-us.htmlFrom Al Resalah, a Hamas-oriented news site:  “Manama auction for the selling of Palestine” Top left: “71 years from the occupation of Palestine” Writing on white sign: Normalization (of relations with Israel)  The two sticks […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/ayelet-tsabari-how-to-be-mizrahi-woman.htmlAyelet Tsabari, Israel’s only Yemenite author with a global audience, has written a second book, The Art of Leaving. This interview with Tsabari in Haaretz also looks at Mizrahi women artists through the prism of ‘identity […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/someone-wishes-jews-shabbat-shalom-from.htmlThe IDF Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee tweeted an image from someone at Islam’s holiest site, the Kabaa in Mecca, with a handwritten message wishing Jews a peaceful Sabbath, “Shabbat Shalom.” Adraee commented, “How beautiful is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/palestinians-who-attended-bahrain.html From Israel HaYom: The Palestinian Authority on Saturday night released Hebron businessman Saleh Abu Mayala after he had been detained upon his return from the US-led economic conference in Bahrain. According to Palestinian reports, […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/the-importance-of-the-spelling-and-correct-definition-of-antisemitism/This post was written (with a slightly different headline) by Shirlee Finn and published originally both at Honest Reporting and at Jews Down Under (of which Shirlee is the editor). The subject may sound too […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0629-links-cory-bookers-hypocrisy-on.htmlFrom Ian: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Cory Booker’s Hypocrisy on Louis Farrakhan When former vice preisident Joe Biden spoke of the civility he practiced in the Senate with segregationist Democrat senators James Eastland of Mississippi and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0628-links-pt2-judea-pearl-inspiration.htmlFrom Ian: Judea Pearl: Inspiration and a Rallying Cry for Jewish Students and Graduates The following is Judea Pearl’s speech at the fourth annual UCLA Jewish Graduation on June 16. Dean [Maria] Blandizzi, friends, families, […]