Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-rigorously-was-orphans-decree-in.html The Yaqin Institute has Islamist links and an interest in revising history in order to whitewash the less savoury aspects of Islamic history – such as forced conversions. This article downplays the impact of the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-one-prisoner-found-inspiration-in.html The Book: a Humble quest into the Hebrew Scriptures is the result, soon after the Ayatollahs had taken power,  of one man’s attempt to stay sane – and alive – in  Iran’s most notorious prison: […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0103-links-pt1-goodbye-unesco-elbit.htmlFrom Ian: JPost Editorial: Goodbye UNESCO Israel’s decision – along with the US – to leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on January 1 is extraordinary. It represents a loss for UNESCO […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0102-links-pt2-deal-that-disappeared.htmlFrom Ian: The deal that disappeared Historian Kobby Barda has found a lost chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After World War II, the U.S. gave Israel and Arab nations $1.5 billion to solve the Middle […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/egypt-to-preserve-unique-jewish.htmlFollowing an announcement that it was spending 71 million dollars to preserve religious sites,  the Egyptian government appears to be extending its scope to cover Jewish cemeteries. Egyptian Streets has the story (with thanks: Boruch): […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0102-links-pt1-iranian-nuclear-weapons.htmlFrom Ian: Iranian Nuclear Weapons and ‘Palestine’: Dangers for Israel Israeli planners may soon have to understand that the efficacy or credibility of their country’s nuclear deterrence posture could vary inversely with enemy views of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0101-links-pt2-melanie-phillips-labour.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Labour party’s out-of-body antisemitism experience When Labour’s shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry spoke last week at the annual Limmud Jewish cultural festival in Birmingham, she declared in relation to the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-jeremy-corbyn-needs-to-know-about.html The author of a book on the treatment of Jews in Arab and Muslim lands has spoken about how the leader of Britain’s opposition party, Jeremy Corbyn’s, understanding of Middle Eastern politics and history is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0101-links-pt1-this-palestinian-was.htmlFrom Ian: This Palestinian Was Tortured. But No One Cares Because It Wasn’t By Israel. Issam Aqel, a Palestinian-American with Israeli residency, has been detained, arrested and tortured. You may be surprised that you’ve never […]