Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/succah-velulav-sung-iraqi-style.html Today is the first day of Succot, the Feast of Tabernacles. Jews recall the Biblical time when the Children of Israel  built makeshift huts in the desert on their journey from Egypt to the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1016-links-btselems-disgraceful.htmlFrom Ian: The success story of US state legislatures steadily hammering away at BDS However, Clemmons recalls that a real breakthrough came “later on that trip when we had the opportunity to meet Prof. [Eugene] […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/mizrahi-education-could-unite-religious.html Erez Biton hands his report to education minister Naftali Bennett (Flash 90) In  commissioning the Biton Report, was education minister Naftali Bennett making a play for the Mizrahi electorate – slightly less cynical than […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/10/david-singer-trump-thrashes-clinton-on.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: Mainstream American media’s obsession with groping allegations against Donald Trump going back twenty years or more […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1015-links-archaeology-lesson-for.htmlFrom Ian: The Little Jewish Village That Makes Obama Boil Halfway to the sky sits a tiny village of little white houses that has attracted the ire of the White House.The village of Amona with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1014-links-pt2-melanie-phillips.htmlFrom Ian: Mark Regev: Remember Cable Street, when the labour movement and Zionists were allies This week we commemorate 80 years since the famous battle of Cable Street, in which the labour Zionist youth movement […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1014-links-pt1-glick-israel-must-go-on.htmlFrom Ian: Caroline Glick: Israel must go on offensive at UN Over the past eight years of the Obama Administration, US condemnations of Israeli construction beyond the 1949 armistice lines, including in Jerusalem, have become […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/libyan-jew-exile-broke-my-father.htmlThe story of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries is often described as a success – people who have managed to rebuild their lives and create a better future for themselves and their children. But […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/1013-links-pt2-bob-dylan-wins-nobel.htmlFrom Ian: Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy said on […]