May 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/world-keffiyeh-day-celebrating-symbol.html Monday was World Keffiyeh Day, which was made up by a student group in Canada ironically named Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. The reason it is ironic is that while in English the pro-Palestinian […]

http://david-collier.com/diaspora-jewish-children/ My politics are Israeli politics and a lot of the discourse that takes place in the UK, also takes place in Israel. Dinner tables, ‘ul ha esh’ (BBQ), restaurant gatherings, pubs, coffee shops or […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/some-good-news-for-lag-baomer/Today is Lag Ba”Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, a semi-holiday marked by bonfires in the night, music and a popular day for weddings. This year, because of the coronavirus restrictions, bonfires were banned […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/0511-links-pt2-pogrom-that-started.htmlFrom Ian: The Pogrom That Started the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict In 1920, reality struck the Yeshuv (The Jewish community in Palestine). Many who believed hitherto in the possibility of a bi-national state in Palestine between […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-1900-year-old-coin-that-says-israel.htmlEvery once in a while, some brainy Israel hater will find an old British Mandate coin that says “Palestine” on it (including the initials for Eretz Yisrael in Hebrew) and say that, look, this shows […]

http://david-collier.com/palestinian-refugees-unrwa/ In May 2016 I spoke at a panel event on the possibility of a two state solution. My talk focused on the key issue of the entire conflict – the reason the ‘Palestinian refugee’ […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/0511-links-pt1-trump-and-netanyahu.htmlFrom Ian: David Singer: Trump and Netanyahu Ready to Create History in Judea and Samaria President Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are readying to create history together on 1 July when Israel restores […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/now-unrwa-even-brags-that-american.htmlLast year, UNRWA-USA – the American fundraising arm of UNRWA – started a “UNRWA Alumni” program to get people who grew up in the Middle East, going to UNRWA schools, to proudly say that they […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/palestinian-prime-minister-says-paying.html Last week, under Israeli pressure, some Arab banks doing business in the territories stopped paying stipends and salaries to former prisoners and families of current prisoners. Today, the Palestinian prime minister responded to the […]