Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/04/0419-links-melanie-phillips-leaving.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: Leaving Egypt to cross the (metaphorical) seas In the face of all this, America’s Jewish leaders are largely and disgracefully silent. Most of them, that is, except the head of the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/04/haroset-for-passover-adeni-recipe.html Haroset is eaten as part of the Passover Seder in all Jewish families. It symbolises the bricks and mortar used by the Israelites when they were slaves in Egypt.  There are almost as many […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/04/0418-links-pt2-bethany-mandel-jews-have.htmlFrom Ian: Enough Is Enough When I was a student at Bennington College, I was screamed at in the dining hall by a fellow student who told everyone around us that I spent my time […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/04/0418-links-pt1-false-nakba-narrative-un.htmlFrom Ian: The False ‘Nakba’ Narrative The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war for Israel’s survival, has now become a synonym for […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/04/us-law-seeks-to-preserve-mena-jewish.htmlAccording to the Jerusalem Post, new legislation has been proposed  in the US Congress to extend the jurisdiction of a Commission charged with preserving ‘American’ heritage abroad to include the Middle East and North Africa. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/04/0417-links-pt2-judea-pearl-renounces.htmlFrom Ian: Judea Pearl Renounces NYU Distinguished Alumnus Status as School Prepares to Award Students for Justice in Palestine Turing Award winner Judea Pearl has renounced his status as a distinguished alumnus of New York […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/04/0417-links-pt1-michelle-goldbergs-free.htmlFrom Ian: Noah Pollak: Michelle Goldberg’s Free Speech Martyr In 2007, Barghouti founded, and runs to this day, a Ramallah-based umbrella group called the BDS National Committee that serves as the leading group organizing and […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/04/david-singer-jordan-in-denial-over.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: In a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee King Abdullah of Jordan […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-story-behind-habiba-msikas-piano.htmlThe exhibition Leaving, without ever returning (on at Tel Aviv’s Eretz Israel Museum until 31 July) 31 treats with due seriousness the immigration to Israel of the Jews from Arab countries and Iran. So what’s […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/04/0416-links-pt2-jewish-critics-of-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Jonathan S. Tobin: Jewish critics of Israel have a problem with Israelis, not with Netanyahu The issue on which they are prepared to discard the ties between Israel and American Jews is one […]