Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0218-links-pt1-ministers-approve.htmlFrom Ian: Ministers approve slashing $138 million from Palestinians over terror payments The security cabinet on Sunday approved the implementation of a law to cut over half a billion shekels in funds to the Palestinian […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/02/more-and-more-arabs-are-postitive.html Are we witnessing a sea change in Arab attitudes to Israel? In spite of continued antisemitism and widespread rejectionism, there could be an opportunity to encourage Arab-Israeli partnership, argues Joseph Braude in Mosaic. In the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/02/film-is-set-in-former-epicenter-of.html ‘Roma’, the film which won a BAFTA award and is a frontrunner to win an Oscar, is set in district of Mexico City once inhabited by Syrian Jews. Alan Galbinski reports in Times of Israel: […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0217-links-amnesty-tries-banning-jewish.htmlFrom Ian: Amnesty tries banning Jewish history Amnesty International has long sought to isolate Israel by lobbying governments, international bodies, and civil society to adopt boycotts against the Jewish state. The organization reached new levels […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-london-usual-suspects-usual-slurs.htmlBy Daphne Anson   On 15 February outside the Puma Store, in accordance with this particular facet of the anti-Israel movement, devotees of the Islamic-led Inminds organisation (including a “Kick Israel Out of FIFA” campaigner […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0216-links-hot-mic-netanyahu-lashes-eus.htmlFrom Ian: In hot mic comments, Netanyahu lashes EU’s ‘crazy’ policy on Israel Unaware that his remarks were also being transmitted to reporters outside, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the European Union in unusually harsh […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-did-israels-mizrahi-food-become.htmlMizrahi influences have now made Israeli haute cuisine mainstream and Israeli restaurants among the trendiest. Writing in the Jewish Chronicle, Claudia Roden, who played her part in popularising Sephardi and Mizrahi cuisine, traces the rise […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0215-links-pt2-david-french-america.htmlFrom Ian: David French: America Chooses Morality over Money to Support Israel America’s long support for Israel — often in the face of fierce criticism from key allies and painful economic reprisal from the Arab […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0215-links-pt1-mutual-recognition-never.htmlFrom Ian: Gerald Steinberg: Mutual Recognition Never Happened, Palestinian Leaders Are Stuck in 1948 In the Israeli election free-for-all, the prospects for peace with the Palestinians will get some attention, but without engagement from the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/02/magda-my-goal-is-to-rehabilitate-jewish.htmlMagda Haroun, the leader of the four-member Jewish community of Cairo, was in the US for a conference at the end of January. There she found time to answer questions from Viviane Levy at the […]