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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/poll-of-american-jewish-political.htmlBy Daled Amos A new poll just came out last week, indicating Domestic Issues Dominate The Priorities Of The Jewish Electorate On behalf of the Jewish Electorate Institute (JEI), Greenberg Research conducted a survey of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/reported-antisemitic-incidents-in-nyc.htmlThe NYPD Hate Crimes statistics for the first quarter of 2019 shows that 59% of all reported hate crimes have been against Jews – far more than against all other groups combined. In previous years, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/hamas-says-it-has-doubled-number-of-its.html The head of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yahya al-Sinwar, said that Hamas and its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, have twice as many rockets that can hit Tel Aviv as they […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/non-white-jews-are-still-embattled.html Reading about the making of the film Aladdin, Dani Ishai Behan was astonished to discover that the actors playing the main Arab characters were Ashkenazi Jews, yet they have been described as ‘white’. Read Behan’s […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0528-links-pt2-phillips-jewish.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: Jewish conservatism is the key to our survival The American philanthropic foundation, the Tikvah Fund, has decided to challenge the dominance of liberal universalism among Jews and promote instead a Jewish […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/cartoon-of-day-what-are-odds.htmlContinuing my occasional re-captioning of single panel cartoons: We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/four-arab-countries-and-israel-to.html Saeb Erekat is desperately making calls to some 20 world leaders to urge them to boycott the Bahrain conference that is meant to help his people. So far, the “only” Arab countries to confirm […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/05/0528-links-pt1-pmw-palestinian-stabs.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: Palestinian stabs Jew in Hamas music video The same day that Hamas official Fathi Hammad promised to “slaughter, exterminate, and annihilate” Israel, Hamas TV broadcast a music video promising to “blow up” […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-jewish-poets-who-harked-back-to.html Egypt is less well known for its interwar Jewish writers than Iraq, for instance. Nevertheless, according to HaSepharadi, poets did exist, writing primarily in French. They extolled the ‘tolerant’ Pharaonic past and their sense of […]