2019

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/jewish-tunisian-minister-toes-line-on.html It did not take long for Tunisia’s new Jewish tourism minister to have to declare that normal links with  Israel are a ‘sensitive’ issue. Middle East Monitor reports (with thanks: Lily):  Rene Trabelsi takes the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0121-links-pt2-new-antisemitism-loving.htmlFrom Ian: The Reverend Martin Luther King was a Zionist When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, You are talking anti-Semitism” More exact words were never said, and they were spoken by the great civil […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/most-palestinians-support-terror-good.htmlThere is an unwritten rule in journalism to avoid making Palestinians look bad collectively. Israelis, sure. Settlers, certainly. But Palestinians? No, they must be given every benefit of the doubt. The last PCPSR survey of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0121-links-pt1-after-rocket-fired-at.htmlFrom Ian: After rocket fired at Golan, IDF bombs Iran caches, intel sites, bases in Syria Israeli fighter jets targeted Iranian weapons storehouses, intelligence facilities and a training camp near Damascus during a massive overnight […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/is-palestinian-mental-health-really.html I was struck by the first paragraph of this recent article in Quartz: Palestine has some of the highest rates of mental illness in the world. A quarter of Palestinian adolescents have made suicide attempts; […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/intersectionality-in-1970s-included.htmlIn the 1960s, Martin Luther King’s brand of nonviolence and support for Israel was the mainstream black opinion, while a fringe radical black movement (called Black Power) started that supported violence and, not coincidentally, saw […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-do-anti-zionist-groups-ignore.htmlLea Suissa, who left Morocco aged nine,  has this timely response in the Jerusalem Post  to IfnotNow and other US anti-Zionist groups  who accuse Zionist initiatives like Birthright of rehashing IDF talking points. She asks […]