Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0522-links-pt1-pa-prime-minister-puts.htmlFrom Ian: PMW op-ed: PA Prime Minister puts the last nail in the coffin of Palestinian democracy In the 25 years since the PA was created, only two general elections have been held .The two […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0521-links-pt2-rashida-tlaib-and-trojan.htmlFrom Ian: Rashida Tlaib and the Trojan horse of antisemitic tropes After seeing the weak condemnation following Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s latest revisionist comments about the creation of Israel and the Holocaust, everything I have been […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0521-links-pt1-fatah-posted-offensive.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: Fatah posted offensive Holocaust video after Al-Jazeera condemned and removed it On May 18, 2019, Al-Jazeera journalists produced an offensive report on the Holocaust. It accused Israel of “having benefitted the most […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/film-traces-geniza-story-until.html The Times of Israel reports on a new film about the Cairo Geniza, a unique collection of Jewish documents preserved in the attic at the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo  and discovered at the end […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0520-links-pt2-hen-mazzig-no-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Hen Mazzig (L.A. Times): No, Israel isn’t a country of privileged and powerful white Europeans Along with resurgent identity politics in the United States and Europe, there is a growing inclination to frame […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/stop-tainting-israel-as-extension-of.htmlA western trend positioning Israel as a colonialist aggressor rather than a haven for all Jews fleeing oppression erases the history of Mizrahi Jews like Hen Mazzig, who now form the majority of Israeli Jews. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0520-links-pt1-trump-admin-kicks-off.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: The figures show that the PA financial crisis is fake The Palestinian Authority is currently facing a financial crisis. The crisis is self-induced and caused as a direct result of a decision […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-christchurch-new-zealand-tangled-webb.htmlBy Daphne Anson   One of Jacinda Ardern’s MPs, Duncan Webb, has been criticised, quite rightly, by the New Zealand Jewish Council for his advocacy of the odious BDS movement, which as many readers will […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/ezekiels-tomb-feared-lost-to-jewish.htmlThe future of Jewish culture and heritage in Iraq will be on the agenda at an international two-day conference in Israel on 20 and 21 May 2019*.  But for age-old synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish shrines, […]