Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0623-links-ben-dror-yemini-kushner-is.htmlFrom Ian: Ben-Dror Yemini: Kushner is repeating the same mistake John Kerry, who served as US Secretary of State under former US President Barack Obama, claimed more than once that poverty leads to terror. We’ll […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-1936-directory-point-to-bygone.htmlWith thanks: Michael ‘Religious freedom is guaranteed. Mosque stands beside Church and Synagogue.’ These words, from the Iraq Directory of 1936, published yearly under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, sound rather hollow […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0622-links-white-house-peace-to.htmlFrom Ian: UK rabbi to House of Lords: Rise in antisemitism today similar to Holocaust-era The UK’s House of Lords debated the subject of antisemitism in the country’s politics, with Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Jonathan […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/06/david-singer-trump-should-stop-billions.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: President Trump should not allow the euphoria that swept the world following the 27 November 2007 […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/on-this-day-music-master-cheikh-raymond.htmlOn 22 June 1961, while shopping in the market with his daughter, the great music master Raymond Leyris was shot in the neck in the Algerian town of Constantine. The murder, by the pro-independence FLN, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0621-links-pt2-melanie-phillips-week-of.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: A week of Jew- and Israel-baiting in Londonistan As I said in the Intelligence Squared debate, however, they cannot be separated. Anti-Zionism has weaponized antisemitism. The unique characteristics of antisemitism are […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/06/oral-history-project-launches-english.htmlOn  World Refugee Day, JIMENA  ( Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) launched  the English version of an Israeli mobile application, “Seeing the Voices.”   Synagogues Hall, Beit Hatefutsot (Museum of the Jewish […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0621-links-pt1-evelyn-gordon-once-again.htmlFrom Ian: Evelyn Gordon: Once Again, the PA Shows It Doesn’t Care about Having a Viable State The Palestinians’ refusal to attend a U.S.-sponsored “economic workshop” in Bahrain has been widely treated as a reasonable […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/06/0620-links-pt2-gil-troy-real-birthright.htmlFrom Ian: Gil Troy: The real Birthright: Inheriting our Jewish story Yet, despite all this, despite Birthright’s hall-of-fame high educational batting average, 13 frauds who essentially stole spots from others and came on trips last […]