October 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/controversy-in-tunisia-over-support-for.html On Friday, a jihadist in France beheaded a teacher, Samuel Paty, who showed his class the Mohammed cartoons that caused controversy (and murder) when published a few years back. In Tunisia, a member of […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/10/us-pressures-sudan-to-normalise.htmlWashington has given Sudanese leaders a 24-hour deadline to decide whether they agree to a deal that will see the country normalize relations with Israel in exchange for financial aid and removal from a US […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/1017-links-caroline-glick-american.htmlFrom Ian: Caroline Glick: American Jewry’s Fateful Hour If Trump wins an historic level of support among American Jews, it will be a testament to the wisdom of an unprecedented percentage of American Jews. For […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/1016-links-pt2-melanie-phillips-bbcs.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: The BBC’s problem is worse than “wokeish” bias Last month, the Jewish Chronicle reported that the City of David organisation had complained to BBC executives about Rosie Garthwaite, a senior BBC […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/palestinian-newspaper-editor-calls.html Dr. Nasser al Lahham, editor of the independent Ma’an news agency, wrote an explicitly antisemitic editorial today where he accused all rabbis in Israel of wanting to enslave Arabs and he predicted that Arabs […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/10/jjac-president-rabbi-abadie-to-relocate.htmlThe appointment  as full-time rabbi in Dubai of Rabbi Elie Abadie, who was forced to leave his native Lebanon as a refugee, shows that the UAE is serious in its intent to ‘grow’ the local Jewish […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/jews-are-protecting-muslims-visiting-al.html Yesterday, a delegation of Gulf Arabs – there is disagreement as to whether they were from the UAE or Oman – visited the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/richard-falk-has-found-place-to-publish.html Richard Falk, the fanatically anti-Israel former UN “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, has found a place to publish his pseudo-scholarly screeds. The Tehran Times. After […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-struggle-to-preserve-afghanistans.htmlThis Ghandara article gives an interesting overview of Afghanistan’s remaining Jewish heritage, whose ownership it claims was largely transferred to the government (more likely, the government took over abandoned property). Although only one Jew remains, […]