August 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/boycotting-israel-was-never-about.htmlThis weekend, the UAE announced that it will no longer adhere to the Arab League boycott of Israel. AP reported: Saturday’s announcement formally eliminates a 1972 law on the UAE’s books, since just after the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/arabs-still-publicly-demand-expulsion.htmlAd Dustour is a Jordanian newspaper that has been publishing since 1966. It is one of the top 100 websites in Jordan and strongly supports King Abdullah. Yesterday, one of its columnists  called for the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-arab-anti-normalization-cartoon-that.htmlAt Al Araby, this cartoon is meant to be derogatory to the Arab world – but it is actually very nice.   Reading from right to left, it says “Previously…” showing an Arab saying NO […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/08/school-culture-wars-rage-in-california.htmlWestern universities already ignore, or distort, Mizrahi-lived experience, unless Mizrahi Jews can be weaponized against Zionist Ashkenazim. Now they are in danger of being erased from school curricula, warns Lyn Julius in her JNS News […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0829-links-caroline-b-glick-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Caroline B. Glick: The Israel-Sunni Arab bloc – the new sheriff In Pompeo’s shuttle diplomacy we see the enormity of the administration’s achievement. After the Cold War, Israeli leftists and anti-Israel foreign policy […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0828-links-pt2-plot-for-america.htmlFrom Ian: The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz The influential Newark rabbi was a confidante of Martin Luther King, but he’s been all but ignored by history On the evening of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/jordanian-cartoonist-arrested-for-anti.htmlFrom the International Federation of Journalists: Cartoonist Emad Hajjaj was arrested on Wednesday August 26 for “disturbing relations with a sister country” in a cartoon. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns this arrest and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0828-links-pt1-arab-countries-arent.htmlFrom Ian: Arab countries aren’t waiting for the Palestinians A few days ago, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the mufti of the Palestinian Authority and Jerusalem, published a fatwa (religious ruling) stating that Muslims in the United […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/its-much-more-complicated-than-that.htmlI played with one of those “make your own comic” sites for the artwork…  

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-shtetl-mentality-is-alive-and-well.html   JTA reports: [O]n Wednesday night, the 93-year-old synagogue’s driveway was graffitied with the words “Free Palestine.” Critics of the Black Lives Matter movement have cited similar vandalism as evidence that protests have devolved […]