Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0522-links-pt1-dershowitz-medias.htmlFrom Ian: Alan Dershowitz: The media’s misplaced sympathy for the Hamas lynch mob As evidence mounts that Hamas intended to murder Israeli children, women and men after breaching the border fence to Israel, Hamas apologists […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/05/on-77th-anniversary-of-farhud-holocaust.htmlThe holiday of Shavuot is now past. It is an occasion to remember the gruesome events of the Farhud, the pro-Nazi pogrom which devastated the Iraqi-Jewish community over Shavuot 1941. Tiffany Gabbay’s father was nine […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0521-links-truth-about-hamas-and-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Ron Dermer: Stop demonizing Israel for defending itself Hand it to Hamas. As this week’s events in Gaza showed, the terrorist organization committed to Israel’s destruction can still manipulate the media into demonizing […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/05/david-singer-israel-condemns-plo-lies.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: The historic opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem has provided opportunities for Israel’s Prime Minister […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/05/bernard-lewis-giant-of-middle-east.htmlThe death of Bernard Lewis just short of his 102nd birthday is a great blow to Middle East scholarship. Speaking and reading twelve languages including Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew, he had a remarkable grasp of […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/05/to-understand-israel-listen-to-its-music.htmlWhen  Mizrahi singer Sarit Haddad does a cover of a classic Israeli song, you know that Mizrahi music is now the dominant genre. Matti Friedman explores Israel’s cultural revolution in The Globe and Mail:  Sarit […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0518-links-pt2-foundations-of-new.htmlFrom Ian: Op-Ed: Left and right wing Anti-Semitism/Zionism The left has accepted the outright lies told by the Islamists as a means of undermining political opponents. This is the old tactic of scapegoating/blaming the Jews/Israel […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0518-links-pt1-glick-israels-suckers.htmlFrom Ian: Caroline Glick: Israel’s sucker’s game on the Gaza border There was a depressing familiarity both to Hamas’s suicide protest operation along Gaza’s border with Israel this week and to Israel’s response to it. […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/05/remember-other-nakbas.html In this seminal piece in the Jerusalem Post timed to coincide with the nakba, Hen Mazzig wishes that all the people who have sympathy for the Palestinians showed an ounce of it to the victims […]