May 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/things-are-terrible-in-jordanian-unrwa.html The Jerash UNRWA camp in Jordan is a terrible place.  We’ve reported about it for years. The far-Left Israeli site +972 has finally noticed it as well. Here’s what it tweeted: Jerash refugee camp […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/even-palestinian-central-bureau-of.html One would think that if any Palestinian government agency is trustworthy, it would be the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. After all, they should be dealing with hard numbers and facts. That is naive. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/eoztv-professor-andrew-pessin-on-toxic.html This was a fun conversation. Apologies, for some reason the sound did not work for the YouTube clip at the end where Pessin is the “Genius” on David Letterman. You can see the entire […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/0512-links-pt2-does-media-bias-against.htmlFrom Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Does media bias against Israel still matter? If media bias like this doesn’t impact American public opinion about Israel, should anyone bother protesting it? In the first place, it is vital […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-nytimes-writes-about-lebanons.html Lebanon is suffering from an economic meltdown, that has become a looming catastrophe because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The New York Times covers it…with a curious omission. Lebanon’s economic problems have been building for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/college-threatens-professor-over.htmlThis story has a happier ending but it should never have happened to begin with. Nicholas Damask, chair of the political science department at Arizona’s Maricopa County Community College, has a world politics class that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/0512-links-pt1-david-collier.htmlFrom Ian: David Collier: Palestinian refugees and UNRWA – it is time to tell the truth UNRWA has to go UNRWA, and much of the apparatus of the UN these days exist inside a paradigm […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-problem-with-adls-antisemitism.htmlBy Daled Amos No one says that the ADL has not done good work. Just last month, the ADL pursued the removal of The Sbarro Bomber on Social Media A notorious terrorist who is on […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/05/lag-ba-omer-in-algeria.htmlToday is Lag Ba’ Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, the period between Passover and Pentecost (Shavuoth).  (With thanks: Leon)The Omer marked a time when the scholar at the time orf the Roman occupation of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/of-course-new-hrw-report-is-filled-with.htmlHuman Rights Watch issued a new report, Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians: Palestinian Towns Squeezed While Jewish Towns Grow.  As usual with HRW, it plays fast and loose with the facts to make Israel […]