October 26, 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/1026-links-pt2-nyc-jews-for-trump.htmlFrom Ian: At Brooklyn Trump rally, Orthodox anger at mayor and governor take center stage Over a thousand mostly Orthodox Jews gathered for a rally in support of Donald Trump in Brooklyn on Sunday, using […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/moderate-critics-of-israel-at-york-and.htmlFrom the Toronto Star: At the heart of a University of Toronto hiring scandal is an academic whose critique of Israeli settlements in Palestine is not what most people would call radical. At York University, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/peter-beinart-goes-off-deep-end-with.html Peter Beinart writes in the socialist Jewish Currents site: ON OCTOBER 23RD, Donald Trump announced that Sudan would begin the process of normalizing relations with Israel. The declaration, which was part of a deal […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/1026-links-pt1-sudan-deal-encourages.htmlFrom Ian: JPost Editorial: Sudan deal encourages other Arab states to follow suit – analysis Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen added that a peace accord with Sudan strikes a blow to Iran’s aspirations of regional hegemony. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/nypd-bias-crimes-word-cloud-shows.htmlThe New York Police Department has a new (not very good) Hate Crimes Dashboard.  One interesting feature is a “word cloud” showing the relative frequency of bias crimes by type, sizing each type by how […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/bahrain-accepts-that-anti-zionism-is.html Almost lost among the flurry of announcements around Israel’s peace with Bahrain was this Memorandum of Understanding between the US State Department Office of the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism and Bahrain’s King Hamad […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/israels-law-against-injury-to-religious.htmlThe Library of Congress has a most interesting article listing each country that has laws against blasphemy, defaming religion, harming religious feelings, and similar conduct. Israel has such a law in its 1977 Penal Code. 173. If […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/10/mass-kaddish-to-be-said-again-for-jews.htmlFor the third year running, prayers will be recited in  synagogues across the world in remembrance of Jews buried in inaccessible cemeteries in Arab lands. Graves in the Baghdad Jewish cemetery This year the mass […]