June 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-zionist-philo-semitic-poem-from-1843.html  I came across this poem in an American Jewish newspaper  published in 1850, but I found that it was written by a sub-editor of the London Globe, Edward Raleigh Moran, in 1843.   Lines […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/this-is-what-palestinians-hijacking.html   This small demonstration in Bethlehem has all the hallmarks of what Palestinians always do: try to hijack any trendy cause and make it about them. While protesters worldwide are trying to understand the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/0609-links-pt2-health-minister.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: To put Israel’s points, first learn about the Brits Is the Israeli government reverting to its bad old ways by selecting the Likud politician Tzipi Hotovely as its ambassador to the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/some-arab-incitement-from-90-years-ago.htmlThe Palestine Bulletin, the precursor to the Palestine Post/Jerusalem Post, used to have a column where they would translate Arab articles. After the British White Paper of 1930, Jews demonstrated and rallied against the reduction […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/mohammed-owned-slaves-why-wont-anyone.htmlThe cancel culture is very selective. Jimmy Fallon thought imitating Chris Rock in blackface on national TV was OK, and people accepted his apology. In 2011, Fred Armisen defended his use of blackface (or “honeyface”)  […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/0609-links-pt1-dershowitz-exploiting.htmlFrom Ian: Alan Dershowitz: Exploiting the Floyd protests to demonize Israel Historically, the Jews have always been caught between the black of Fascism and the red of Communism. This was true in the 1920’s and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-intellectual-antisemitism-of.htmlMondoweiss published a long article called “On the Racial Basis of Zionism” that tries to find some sort of pseudo-intellectual underpinnings to associate Zionism with antisemitism. One doesn’t have to look far beneath the surface […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-moral-failure-of-american-jewish.htmlThe American Jewish Committee has been around since 1906 and has done some fine work over the years (although it did a poor job during the Holocaust.) Nowadays it seems to have changed its name […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/06/palestinian-authority-tv-calling-for.html     Palestinian Media Watch has been documenting a very disturbing trend of official Palestinian TV increasing the number of music videos it shows that directly call for attacking Jews in Israel. Significantly, they […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/06/we-must-re-think-identity-privilege-and.htmlThe outcry against systemic racism sparked by the  death of George Floyd has caused some pro-Palestinians  to  appropriate Black suffering for their own political purproses. The victimisaiton of Middle Eastern Jews  throughout history should make […]