Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/10/mizrahi-jews-are-key-to-understanding.htmlWide-ranging interview in Fathom, the magazine of British-Israel Communications (BICOM), with Lyn Julius, author of Uprooted. Julius explains how and why Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished in one generation. She describes what brought […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/10/david-singer-jordan-enclave-in-west.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: Creating another Palestinian Arab state – in addition to Jordan – has been seemingly consigned to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/1003-links-pt2-evelyn-gordon-iccs-anti.htmlFrom Ian: Evelyn Gordon: ICC’s anti-Israel bias shows America is right to shun it In a public speech earlier this month, the American national-security adviser John Bolton sharply criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/1003-links-pt1-un-watch-slams-unrwa.htmlFrom Ian: Bibi’s Rallying Cry “Anyone but King Bibi,” is the sort of derisive comment you’ll hear from a Tel Aviv resident in a bar after a couple of Goldstar lagers. But Israel’s prime minister […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/10/western-jewry-must-re-orient-its-view.htmlThe more Hen Mazzig, a Tel Aviv activist and writer of Iraqi and Tunisian-Berber parentage, mixes with North American Jewry, the more he is conscious of his eastern origins. The Ashkenazi diaspora needs to jettison […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/1002-links-col-kemp-in-name-of-peace-it.htmlFrom Ian: Col. Kemp: In the name of peace, it is time to accept Israel’s possession of the Golan Heights This is really the crux of the issue: Western action now could make a concrete […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/10/corbyn-apologists-write-letter.htmlBy Daphne Anson   A bunch of lefties, mainly media studies academics, have signed this delightful letter to the Grauniad, defending Corbyn against charges of, yeah, you know what.  Well, they would say that, wouldn’t […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/10/forty-years-since-peace-treaty-egypt.htmlForty years after the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, relations between the Egyptian people and Israelis are still chilly, reports AFP via the Times of Israel. (Below, a contrasting view from an Egyptian poetess.)  But the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/09/0930-links-wake-up-europe-democrats.htmlFrom Ian: Jpost Editorial: Wake up Europe Appeasement might be a tough word and one that Netanyahu uses reluctantly, but he is right. Europe has turned a blind eye to what is happening in Iran […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-yemenite-psalm-for-simhat-torah.html The climax  of the High Holidays is Simhat Torah, when Jews rejoice at  having been given the Torah – the five books of Moses. It marks the end of the Torah reading cycle. They […]