June 2020

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/eo7d3XpN6FY/19-jun-20-aljazeera-on-tamimi.html Jerusalem’s Sbarro pizzeria, minutes after the bombing led by Tamimi It’s an intense time for us on multiple fronts. We’ve been doing a lot of tweeting and ZOOMing and Whatsapping. But somehow not much […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/06/muslim-thinkers-must-dismantle.htmlIf we are to enhance prospects for peace in the Middle East, Muslim thinkers should begin challenging a pejorative and radical ‘theology of the Jews’, which has contaminated discourse in the Arab world. These two […]

http://david-collier.com/free-speech/ I have sat through many toxic events in my time, but even for me yesterday was something special. A gathering of no less than four of the Labour party’s ‘antisemitism’ stars, Chris Williamson, Jackie […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/0618-links-pt2-american-soviet.htmlFrom Ian: The American Soviet Mentality The mobs that perform the unanimous condemnation rituals of today do not follow orders from above. But that does not diminish their power to exert pressure on those under […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/black-iraqis-are-derogatorily-called.html     The National reports on systemic discrimination against some 2 million members of Iraq’s black community: [Black Iraqis] say racial discrimination against them is on par with the racism experienced by African Americans, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/0618-links-pt1-dead-horse-of-palestine.htmlFrom Ian: The dead horse of Palestine George Orwell warned against ‘flyblown metaphors’ in his wonderful essay Politics and the English Language. Yet there are times when a political writer encounters sophistry so absurd that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/how-to-pretend-not-to-be-antisemitic.htmlIt’s really quite easy.     See also these posters on similar themes: Finally! The differences between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, explained (poster) Spot the difference (poster)

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/more-honor-killings-in-iran.html   There were world headlines about the “honor killing” of 14 year old Romina Ashrafi, beheaded by her father late last month. But the crimes, helped by lax Iranian laws on murdering women for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/bds-finally-gets-some-gazans-to-boycott.html     It took well over a decade, but a few Gazans decided to boycott Israeli goods. A group of women and youths associated with the socialist Palestinian Democratic Youth Union and the Women’s […]