Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/anti-zionist-group-co-opts-mizrahi-story.htmlIt has been said that Jewish Voice for Peace is neither representative of Jews, nor is it pro-Peace. Its voice on the far left edge of the US Jewish community has been rather shrill since […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0118-links-pt2-democrats-growing-anti.htmlFrom Ian: Abe Greenwald: The Democrats’ Growing Anti-Semitism Problem Right in front of their eyes. On Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that freshman Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, will sit on the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0118-links-pt1-benny-morris-attacks.htmlFrom Ian: Historian Benny Morris Attacks Palestinian Intransigence Benny Morris is the Israeli historian whose scholarly work changed the way the Israel Palestine conflict is viewed. He coined the term ‘new historians’ which has come […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/30000-people-download-oral-history-app.html Gila Gamliel, minister of Social Equality, launched Seeing the Voices. Some 30,000 people have downloaded a smartphone app for documenting the personal stories of Jewish immigrants to Israel from Arab states and Iran in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0117-links-pt2-genius-of-jeremy-corbyn.htmlFrom Ian: Unintended Consequences This week, Tablet looks back on 40 years of the Iranian Revolution. In an excerpt from a new history of 20th-century Iran, the neglected story of the Jewish revolutionaries who participated […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0117-links-pt1-golan-heights-should.htmlFrom Ian: The Golan Heights Should Stay Israeli Forever Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been lobbying the Trump administration on the idea of formally acknowledging Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights. But whether […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/01/david-singer-trump-plan-for-israel.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: President Trump’s self-styled deal of the century aimed at resolving the 100 years-old Arab-Jewish conflict has […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0116-links-pt2-victor-davis-hanson-new.htmlFrom Ian: Victor Davis Hanson: The New, New Anti-Semitism Out on the barricades, some Democrats, feminists, and Muslim activists, such as the co-founders of the “Women’s March,” Tamika Mallory and the now familiar Sarsour, have […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0116-links-pt1-matti-friedman-there-is.htmlFrom Ian: Matti Friedman: There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ To someone here in Israel, there isn’t an Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the way that many outsiders seem to think. In the Israeli view, no peacemaker can […]