February 2020

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/02/how-libyan-jews-were-deported-during.htmlFrom 1940, attempts were made to deport foreign nationals from Libya. About half the 2.542 French nationals were Jews, expelled to Tunisia and interned as enemy aliens in camps. Fifty died in allied bombing at […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/mysterious-video-of-person-who-claims.html This video has been making the rounds of Arab, especially Saudi, media the past week. It shows a man who claims to be a Jew from Najran, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/0210-links-pt2-tu-bshvat-festival-that.htmlFrom Ian: JPost Editorial: Celebrating Tu Bishvat, New Year for the trees Tu Bishvat, the 15th of Shvat in Judaism’s lunar calendar, which we celebrate today, is also known as Rosh Hashanah Le’ilanot – “New […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/palestinians-need-to-feel-relevant.htmlAs I was looking at Arab stamps for my last post, I noticed this one from Kuwait: I didn’t recognize Fatima Bernawi – because she was black, and the Kuwaiti stamp designer was apparently a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/funny-how-no-arab-stamps-mentioned.htmlOman has just issued a stamp with the slogan, “Al Quds – Capital of Palestine.” There have been dozens of similar stamps over the years issued in Arab countries, often with pictures of the Dome […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/0210-links-pt1-pa-withdraws-its-request.htmlFrom Ian: Abbas’ Palestinian Authority Hurts Everybody By perpetuating the conflict, the Palestinian Authority also forces international donor countries to indefinitely waste their taxpayers’ money on supporting terror and incitement against Israel, financing P.A. corruption, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-remarkable-beatie-deutsch-orthodox.html Yesterday, Beatie Deutsch, a 30-year-old New Jersey native and ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother of five from Jerusalem, won the Miami half-marathon women’s division in 1:16:49 – wearing a skirt, headscarf and long sleeves. While Deutsch was […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/02/former-qatari-prime-minister-predicts.html Former Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, posted a Twitter thread yesterday predicting that a non-aggression pact between Israel and many Arab states is coming. In December, he predicted that the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/02/arab-states-switch-from-erasure-to.htmlRestoration of synagogues is seemingly the new normal  in the Arab world. For all the hype that these preserved sites are silent witnesses to a shared Jewish and Muslim heritage, they will never be more […]