May 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/how-can-you-report-about-arabs-hating.html A week and a half after I first reported on the controversy in the Arab world over a Ramadan mini-series that was sympathetic to Jews, the New York Times finally caught up:  In a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/tens-of-thousands-of-palestinians.htmlArab media are reporting that between 30-40,000 Palestinians are returning to work in Israel today after over a month of closure due to the coronavirus. Since Israel has much higher rates of infection than the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/05/vdeo-slandering-executed-iraqi-jew-goes.htmlWith thanks: Linda A video has been circulating unchallenged on social media that slanders the executed Jewish businessman Shafik Ades, accusing him of smuggling weapons from Iraq to the Zionists. The video shows a well-heeled […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/0501-links-pt2-1920-end-of-innocence.htmlFrom Ian: The end of innocence April 19, 1920, on a train on his way to the San Remo Conference, Chaim Weizmann wrote to his wife, Vera, who was living in London: “My dear, the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/gazans-are-sure-not-boycotting-israeli.htmlHere are some items for sale at the Taj Mall supermarket in Gaza City for Ramadan: These aren’t exactly essentials like flour and oil. They have other brands of similar goods. They choose to sell […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/0501-links-pt1-ruthie-blum-israel-is.htmlFrom Ian: Ruthie Blum: Israel is a country, not a concept – opinion WHICH BRINGS us to one peculiar side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: a spike in the desire of Israelis living abroad to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-would-anyone-celebrate-70th.html Today, UNRWA is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The question is, why? What is there to celebrate? UNRWA was originally meant to be a temporary refugee agency for those displaced from the 1948 war – […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/05/anne-frank-was-canceled-yesterday-by.html A person named Gazi Kodzo is a radical black socialist who heads an organization called Black Hammer. He may be the only member but he does have tens of thousands of followers. Kodzo put […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/05/dont-gag-non-ashkenazi-victims-of.htmlOnly ‘whites’ can be racists, and there is a pernicious trend to repress instances of antisemitism against Mizrahi Jews, or  label Jews who complain of persecution by Arabs as ‘racist’ or ‘islamophobic’. Writing in Jewish […]