Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/03/three-torah-scrolls-stolen-from-iran.html As we celebrate Purim, the festival marking the salvation of Persia’s Jews from an evil tyrant, news has trickled out in the Jewish Journal of LA of a theft of Torah scrolls from a synagogue […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/0320-links-pt2-strange-alliance-between.htmlFrom Ian: The Strange Alliance between Progressives and Islamists While Islamists’ positions on homosexuality, the role of women, and religion would seem to place them on the American right, in fact politically involved American Muslims […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/0320-links-pt1-kushner-peace-plan-once.htmlFrom Ian: CAMERA Op-Ed: The Palestinian Authority has chosen terrorism over US foreign aid In March 2018, the U.S. Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, which proposed to halt American aid to the P.A. until […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/03/jews-of-north-africa-have-their-own.htmlTonight begins the festival of Purim. The original story took place in present-day Iran, but  Jews in North Africa had their modern-day celebrations of deliverance. Lyn Julius reports in Times of Israel:   The great festival […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/03/david-singer-ilhan-omar-needs-to.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: For far too long political debate has been reduced to name-calling and identity labelling, with facts […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/0319-links-pt2-industry-of-antisemitism.htmlFrom Ian: David Collier: An industry of antisemitism denial. The American anti-Zionists of Palestine Live I have just spent several dark weeks back inside Palestine Live. Today I publish a new report that focuses on […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/0319-links-pt1-cruz-military-experts.htmlFrom Ian: Lawfare Blog: Framing Israel: The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Spring 2018 Gaza Border Confrontations Unfortunately, loss of life became unavoidable even under these restrictive rules of engagement. However, the assumption that […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-democratic-drift-towards.htmlAlarmed at the drift of the left of the US Democratic party towards anti-Zionism, Sarah Levin* warns in the Times of Israel  that it could soon lead to fully fledged antisemitism. She draws on the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/0318-links-pt2-pitzer-college-disgraces.htmlFrom Ian: Pitzer College Disgraces Itself for BDS Last week, the council of Pitzer College—a liberal-arts school in Claremont, California—voted to end its study-abroad program with Haifa University. The college’s president has declared he will […]