General News

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/sukkot-5779-chag-sameach/The festival of Sukkot, the most joyous festival in the Jewish calendar, begins tonight, lasting for 7 days (8 outside of Israel), running straight into the Simchat Torah festival on the 8th day (9th day […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/09/0922-links-soviet-style-antisemitism.htmlFrom Ian: Soviet-style antisemitism funded by UK taxpayers It took 16 years to get the UN to expunge the infamous 1975 ‘Zionism Equals Racism” Resolution. IHRA states that it’s antisemitic to claim ‘that the existence […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/09/jews-of-kurdistan-free-equal-but.htmlUntil their exodus in 1950,  Jews had been living in Kurdistan since Assyrian times. They were under the patronage of tribal chieftains or aghas. Here is the second of a two-part rare account of Kurdish-Jewish […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/some-schadenfreude-to-start-the-week/It’s always nice to start the week with good news, so you might like this schadenfreude post. Ever since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he and his diplomatic team (UN Ambassador […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/09/0921-links-pt2-melanie-phillips-blood.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: The blood of slain Israelis stains many hands It’s often claimed by Western enemies of Israel that the military actions of the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas in Gaza are disproportionate […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/09/if-peter-beinart-is-so-smart-why-is-it.html Peter Beinart shows off his 1990s-era thinking in the Forward, which is eager to publish him. Essentially every paragraph betrays his bias, his inability to grasp reality, and his wishful thinking: Since the 1970s, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/09/0921-links-pt1-israel-showed-russia.htmlFrom Ian: Israel: Russia accepts our take on Syrian downing of plane, coordination goes on “Improvements” may be made to the Israeli military’s coordination with Russia over its operations in Syria in light of the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/09/unrwa-must-remain-until-we-return-to.htmlHundreds of UNRWA workers in Gaza protested job cuts on Wednesday. One of the signs they were carrying seems significant: “UNRWA Termination Means Back to Our Homeland” is a poor English translation of “UNRWA can […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/good-news-friday-254/Despite it all, the terrorism and hatred and simmering violence that we have seen in the last weeks, we are now approaching Sukkot, the happiest of our festivals. But first we have Shabbat in between, […]