Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0630-links-with-their-repeated.htmlFrom Ian: With Their Repeated Rejections, Palestinians Risk Total Irrelevance Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, shocked Jewish leaders at a closed-door meeting in New York last year. “In the last several decades, the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/ayelet-tsabari-how-to-be-mizrahi-woman.htmlAyelet Tsabari, Israel’s only Yemenite author with a global audience, has written a second book, The Art of Leaving. This interview with Tsabari in Haaretz also looks at Mizrahi women artists through the prism of ‘identity […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0629-links-cory-bookers-hypocrisy-on.htmlFrom Ian: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Cory Booker’s Hypocrisy on Louis Farrakhan When former vice preisident Joe Biden spoke of the civility he practiced in the Senate with segregationist Democrat senators James Eastland of Mississippi and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0628-links-pt2-judea-pearl-inspiration.htmlFrom Ian: Judea Pearl: Inspiration and a Rallying Cry for Jewish Students and Graduates The following is Judea Pearl’s speech at the fourth annual UCLA Jewish Graduation on June 16. Dean [Maria] Blandizzi, friends, families, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0628-links-pt1-fatal-flaw-in-israeli.htmlFrom Ian: U.N. pays lipservice to Holocaust (while promoting antisemitism) “The United Nations Wednesday hosted a special session on the fight against anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred at which Israel’s U.N. ambassador urged world […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/press-reports-on-jewish-refugees.htmlLast week’s historic debate at Westminster demanding that the UK recognise Jewish refugees from Arab lands has been reported in the Israeli and Jewish press. The Times of Israel (via JTA) reports (with thanks: Imre): […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0627-links-pt2-human-shields-of-new.htmlFrom Ian: JCPA: The Human Shields of the New Anti-Semitism I understand the mindset of the Israelis who came to the defense of the BDS movement in response to Germany’s anti-BDS resolution.1 They remind me […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/bahrainisrael-is-here-to-stay-we-want.htmlBahrain’s foreign minister sees the US-led economic workshop taking place in Manama this week as a possible “gamechanger” tantamount in its scope to the 1978 Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, the Gulf […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0627-links-pt1-will-arabs-accept.htmlFrom Ian: Will Arabs Accept Normalization with Israel? Israel’s peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan were a result of their leaders coming to terms with the fact that fighting Israel was too costly and that […]