June 2020

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/06/lebanese-jewish-leader-was-poet-and.htmlBefore he was murdered in 1971, Albert Elia, a Lebanese Jewish leader, had translated a well-known, deeply personal Piyyut (Jewish liturgical poem) sung on Yom Kippur. The translation of Lekha Eli Teshukati in  rhyming verse, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/being-ally-works-both-ways-vic-rosenthal.html Vic Rosenthal’s weekly column In a recent column, Hen Mazzig takes some Jews to task for failing to support “Black Lives Matter.” Just because a few “fringe activists” have tried to inject the Palestinian […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/0610-links-pt2-co-opting-black-lives.htmlFrom Ian: Co-opting Black Lives Matter to target Israel Groups on the far-Right and far-Left, including pro-Palestinian organizations with links to terrorism, have been engaged in a campaign to co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/kalman-samuels-on-shalva-yossi-and.html “Dreams never Dreamed” offers an inside look at how a child’s devastating injury from a tainted vaccine, led to the founding of Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/spain-self-righteously-stops-selling.htmlJPost reports: The Spanish government vetoed the selling of 2,000 handcuffs to the Israel Police, valued at 17,000 Euros, fearing they will be used in “violation of human rights,” according to the Spanish El País. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/0610-links-pt1-mark-regev-pre-1967.htmlFrom Ian: Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev: Pre-1967 Lines Brought Israel Neither Peace Nor Security Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev responded on June 8 to a letter by prominent members of the British Jewish […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/black-and-palestinian-issues-have.html   Yesterday, Elder of Ziyon described what Palestinians hijacking George Floyd look like, when they claim there is an equality between the current protests in the US in response to the police killing of […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/06/70-years-since-beirut-alliance-school.htmlWith thanks: Ariel In January 1950, the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Beirut was bombed. Two died when the roof collapsed – the headmistress Esther Penso and a member of the house staff. At first it […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/half-christians-in-palestinian-areas.html   The latest poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows contradictory results of how much discrimination Palestinian Christians feel from their Muslim neighbors and the Muslim-majority Palestinian Authority While the […]