August 9, 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/emily-schrader-on-eoztv.html Emily Schrader is a social media expert and has been fighting online antisemitism for much of her adult life. We discuss online antisemitism, her questions to Twitter and Facebook at the Knesset (and Twitter’s […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0809-links-phyllis-chesler-how-i-got.htmlFrom Ian: Phyllis Chesler: How I got canceled Perhaps contemporary ‘cancel culture’ officially began in 1989, when Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie for having ‘defamed’ Islam in The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was ushered […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/08/rogens-rant-gets-response-centred-on.htmlAt last, some effective push-back to the Eurocentric naivety of the Canadian actor Seth Rogen, who caused outrage when as a teenager, he claimed he had been fed lies about Israel . JIMENA executive director […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/unrwa-usa-tries-to-cash-in-on-beirut.html     From a fundraising email from UNRWA-USA: On Tuesday, a massive explosion in Lebanon tragically destroyed or damaged nearly half the capital city of Beirut, left at least 137 dead, thousands injured, and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-startling-symmetry-of-beirut.htmlOutside of nuclear blasts, where else can one see an explosion creating a symmetric mushroom cloud like we saw in Beirut? Last December, footage was released of a blast that was said to be somewhere […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/08/mizrahi-washing-denies-historical-truth.htmlMizrahi activist Hen Mazzig has made it his life’s work to speak up about his family’s persecution and ethnic cleansing fromArab countries. But he is up against a tide of denial, he writes in JNS […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/uae-reunites-yemeni-jewish-familyand.html     One of the Jewish families that was forced to leave Yemen by the Houthis was exiled to the UAE, where the government there reunited them with relatives who moved to the UK […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0808-links-israels-outgoing-un-envoy.htmlFrom Ian: Israel’s Outgoing UN Envoy Danny Danon Says He Aimed to ‘Dilute the Hatred’ at Global Body The Jewish state’s outgoing ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, is even more optimistic about the […]