2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/sudanese-media-still-has-lots-of-casual.html Because of MEMRI, the ADL and others, most of Israel’s Arab neighbors learned long ago that their media should replace attacks on Jews and Judaism with purported attacks on “Zionists” and “Zionism.”   Further away, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-line-between-free-speech-and.htmlLast week, France’s president Emmanuel Macron said, during a memorial  ceremony for beheaded teacher Samuel Paty, that France “will not give up cartoons” that depict Mohammed. This statement has angered much of the Muslim world, who […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/american-association-of-university.html The NYU – American Association of University Professors issued a statement about Zoom denying PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled on their platform. 10/23/2020 Today, Zoom unilaterally shut down a webinar hosted by the NYU chapter of […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/10/libyan-jews-fleeing-after-ww2-not.html It is a fact that 90 percent of the Jewish community of Libya emigrated to Israel after the end of WW2, but how many know that, until emigration became legal,  hundreds of Libyan Jews passed […]

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 […]