http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/record-number-of-jews-visiting-temple.html Haaretz reports: A record number of Jews visited the Temple Mount during this year’s three-week fall holiday season, from October 3 to October 25, and overall the number of Jewish visitors to the Jerusalem […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/saeb-erekat-admits-that-palestine-is.html Saeb Erekat published an op-ed in the Washington Post where careful readers can see what the Palestinian Arab leadership really wants. [M]illions of Palestinians [are] not allowed to return to live in their homeland […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/thousands-respond-to-iraqi-jews-video.html Edwin Shuker on a visit to Baghdad An Iraqi Jew’s three-minute video message (scroll down to 2 October post)wishing Muslims a Happy New Year and appealing to Iraqis to safeguard their Jewish heritage has […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/antisemitism-update-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/Antisemitism is the illness that never goes away and like a virus, it mutates and morphs with the times into whatever is the acceptable “hatred of the day”. Once upon a time it was purely […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/10/israeli-arabs-more-bullish-on-israel.html The Israel Democracy Institute has a  Peace Index which asks a series of questions every month about Israeli attitudes towards the state and some specific timely issues. This month’s results show that Israeli Arabs actually […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/10/can-vicar-change-his-spots.htmlBy Daphne Anson   This is a little postscript to my previous post regarding Stephen Sizer’s “Peacemaker Mediators” charity. Will that organisation be an “Israel Bash society?” wonders a commenter on that post. That, I […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/the-palestinians-dont-want-a-state-they-want-to-destroy-ours-2/Originally posted on Anne’s Opinions: We were all highly amused last week when we heard that Palestinian President-for-life Mahmoud Abbas wants to sue Britain for the “crime” of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which laid […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/melilla-jews-cant-wear-kippa-outside.htmlThey are not in Spain, yet they are not Moroccan either. Six hundred Jews still live in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla. But growing antisemitism, coupled with an economic crisis,  is driving them […]