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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/framing-narrative-matti-friedman-on.html Matti Friedman at the 2018 Jewish Media Summit (photo credit: Chaviva Gordon-Bennett) You have to admire Matti Friedman. He bucked the entrenched wisdom to expose the unfairness (hereand here) of the media’s excessive focus […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/1127-links-pt1-evelyn-gordon-one-option.htmlFrom Ian: Evelyn Gordon: The one option Israel doesn’t have in Gaza By the time the second intifada began in 2001, Hamas and Fatah had built up a powerful terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank; […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/un-style-guidespelling-dictionary.html As of this writing, the site seems to be down, but the UN has a style guide that includes a dictionary of commonly-used words whose spelling needs to be standardized. Even though the guide says […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/iran-says-it-will-pay-all-those-injured.html Ma’an reports that the Hamas-linked committee in charge of the weekly riots at the Gaza border has announced that Iran plans to pay the families of anyone killed in the riots. In addition, Iran […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/no-national-geographic-oslo-is-not.html Words matter, and when lies get embedded into everyday descriptions of the Middle East as fact it is enormously difficult to set the record straight. National Geographic has a nice article (not yet online) […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/11/exiled-jews-were-prominent-in-arts.htmlWith thanks: Ruth  The Jamal sisters In the run-up to 30 November, the official Day to Commemorate Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran, the World Jewish Congress has produced a short video on famous […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/1126-links-pt2-evelyn-gordon-jews-feel.htmlFrom Ian: Evelyn Gordon: Jews Feel Safer in Europe’s Conservative East Than Its Liberal West Everyone except anti-Semites understands that Israeli actions don’t justify attacks on Jewish citizens of other countries, but rampant anti-Israel sentiment […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/cartoon-shows-palestinians-are-livid.htmlHaaretz reported “From Qatar to Iran, none of the countries participating in the MED2018 conference seemed really interested in the Palestinians. Normalization with Israel, on the other hand, was all the rage: ‘It’s a total […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/11/1126-links-pt1-netanyahus-vision-for.htmlFrom Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: Airbnb’s Anti-Israel Hypocrisy The tech company will operate anywhere and serve anyone—except Jews in the West Bank. Two very different organizations took action last week against Jews owning property in the […]