http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/nas-daily-not-so-nice-forest-rain.html I don’t share Nas’s videos but this, I feel needs to be addressed. Take a look: He seems so passionate and yet so reasonable, I am sure many people will simply accept what is […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/05/remember-other-nakbas.html In this seminal piece in the Jerusalem Post timed to coincide with the nakba, Hen Mazzig wishes that all the people who have sympathy for the Palestinians showed an ounce of it to the victims […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-idf-really-is-most-moral-army-in.html (This is an expansion of a Twitter thread I wrote yesterday.) The revelation that seemingly 53 of the dead on the Gaza border on Monday were Hamas and Islamic Jihad members doesn’t only exonerate […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/mattifriedman-is-right-and-lisang-is.htmlMatti Friedman in his New York Times op-ed talks about Hamas’ ability to use the media to tell an anti-Israel story: Most Western viewers experienced these events through a visual storytelling tool: a split screen. […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/chag-shavuot-sameach-8/The festival of Shavuot (“Feast of Weeks” or Pentecost), beginning on Motzei Shabbat (Saturday night), is the culmination of the 7 weeks (hence the name) of counting the Omer – Sefirat Ha’Omer. We are instructed […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0517-links-pt2-new-video-shows-unrwa.htmlFrom Ian: New video purportedly shows UN influence in Gaza clashes A video taken by the Center for Near East Policy Research at an UNRWA school and refugee camp in the Gaza Strip allegedly shows […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/good-news-before-shavuot/It’s not quite Friday as I write (though it may well be so by the time I post), but with the upcoming Shavuot festival starting straight after Shabbat, and after this week’s upsetting news, I […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/nyt-latest-to-ignore-goal-of-riots-to.htmlThe New York Times has a backgrounder on the Gaza protests and the fence, which it claims is the source of the unrest. The article briefly touches on the word “return” but downplays that as […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-secret-is-zionism-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column I attended a lecture on Monday by Moti Toledo, who participated in Operation Solomon, the 36-hour airlift of about 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel while Ethiopia was in the throes […]