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https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/0106-links-pt1-hamas-hostage-list.htmlFrom Ian: Seth Mandel: Biden, Obama, and the Truth About ‘Daylight’ In July 2009, Obama met with American Jewish leaders at the White House. He offered some revisionist history of the George W. Bush administration’s […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/hmm-not-that-much-excitement-from.html This morning, terrorists staged a major terror attack on a bus and cars near Kedumin, murdering three people including two women in their 70s. Hamas’ Felesteen news site says “Hashtag (#Qalqilya_Operation) tops social media […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/australia-arson-over-past-two-months.htmlIn Australia. November 21: December 6: December 11: January 6: Israel haters pretend to distinguish between examples 1,2 and 4 and the others. Any honest person sees there is no difference between any of these. […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/syria-in-diplomatic-spat-with-lebanon.htmlSince Thursday night, Lebanese citizens are almost all banned from entering Syria. Masnaa border crossing No one knows exactly why, and analysts are making guesses. France 24 reports that the reason seems to be that […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/harvard-bdsers-call-for-employees-to.html“Faculty and Students for Justice in Palestine” at Harvard University are calling for all Harvard employees to call in sick today as a protest. FSJP instructs the workers to attend rallies and demonstrations on campus […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/0105-links-blinkens-stunning-confession.htmlFrom Ian: David Collier: The BBC apology should be absolutely rejected The reason the apology should be rejected is simple. The BBC apology is a tick box exercise for the BBC – who have no […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/everyone-is-getting-handshake-gate-wrong.html There was a kerfuffle in Syria this weekend, as Politico EU reports: She came to advocate the rights of women and minorities. She left without a handshake. The Syrian leader’s refusal to offer a […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-permission-structures-to-turn-jews.html Tablet magazine recently published a lengthy but important article about how Barack Obama built a formidable infrastructure to mold people’s opinions towards the Democratic Party and his positions.  Key to the initiative was an […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/bds-professor-teaching-course-on-jews.htmlHere is a description of a course coming up this spring at Oberlin College: JWST 218 – Jews and Power Popular conceptions of the relationship between Jews and power tend either to adopt (in the […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/01/0104-links-unrwa-defenders-false-choice.htmlFrom Ian: Seth Mandel: UNRWA Defenders’ False Choice Usually, when people make the case for UNRWA, they speak in generalities. They point to the nearly 200 schools that UNRWA at one point operated in Gaza. […]