July 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/0721-links-pt1-lyn-julius-wisdom-of.htmlFrom Ian: Lyn Julius: The Wisdom of Peter Beinart’s Grandmother In progressive Western circles, Zionism has become decidedly un-cool. Self-declared Zionists, like the writer Bari Weiss, complain of bullying at the New York Times. In […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-untold-story-of-hundreds-of.htmlLately everyone is talking about #JewishPrivilege and how “white Ashkenazi Jews” benefited from such privilege. I have decided to take a step back and to look closely at those “white Ashkenazi Jews.”. Since the majority […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-battle-between-zionists-and-anti.html   The Huffington Post reported: Progressive activists are making a last-ditch effort to convince the Democratic Party and its presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden to denounce Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, disputed territory […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/madonna-posts-farrakhan-advertisement.html   On July 4 – the same day that Louis Farrakhan gave an ugly, antisemitic speech to a nationwide audience – Madonna posted an excerpt of another Farrakhan speech on her Instagram. It wasn’t […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-rival-iraqi-jewish-dynasties-who.htmlA new book by Jonathan Kaufman explores the story of two rival,   intertwined Iraqi-Jewish entrepreneurial families, the Sassoons and the Kadoories, who opened up China to the world. It is interesting that David Sassoon, the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/0720-links-pt2-why-does-cancel-culture.htmlFrom Ian: Why does cancel culture never apply to anti-Semitism? Weiss’s letter highlighted a now-familiar irony: not only does anti-Semitism not count in the new reckoning of racial harms, but Jews are seen as the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/gas-pipeline-from-israel-to-europe.html By Adam Hegazy337259 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85603344   From Reuters: The Israeli government on Sunday approved an agreement with European countries for the construction of a subsea pipeline that would supply […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-forgotten-pogromtiberias-1938.htmlThe Forgotten Pogrom @AmericanZionism Author Note: Please follow @americanzionism on Twitter Abstract A major pogrom took place in the city of Tiberias in Mandatory Palestine on October 2, 1938 during the height of the Arab […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/0720-links-pt1-indigenous-rights-of.htmlFrom Ian: Alan Baker and Michel Calvo: The Indigenous Rights of the Jewish People and the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People From time immemorial, up to the present day, there has […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/07/remember-when-farrakhan-said.html   If Blacks are a minority and Jews are a minority, why is there such tension between them? One element that caused this friction is the way social interaction between Jews and Blacks was […]