Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

It's easy to convert to the As-A-Jew religion
Syria happy that they are getting support from - Cuba
Africans sending aid to Gaza. Gazans sending aid to Africa. Round and round it goes.
August rocket calendar
Iranian Revolutionary Guards site accuses Ahmadinejad of being Jewish
New poster series: Boycott Arab States!
This week's Latma TV
"Liberal" Saif Qaddafi now embracing Islamists
Swastika, "Islam will rule" vandalism of Toronto synagogue

It's easy to convert to the As-A-Jew religion

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:54 AM PDT

You just have to tell sympathetic, gullible leftist media that you are Jewish!

From CAMERA:

A little over a month ago, as anti-Israel activists gathered in Greece expecting to embark on their journey to the Gaza Strip, Ha'aretz published a column by would-be flotilla participant,Gabriel Matthew Schivone ("A Moment before boarding the next flotilla," June 24, 2011).

Schivone is identified as "a Chicano-Jewish American from Tucson, and coordinator of Jewish Voice for Peace at the University of Arizona." Schivone begins his column: "You might wonder what would motivate a Jewish American college student to participate in what may be the most celebrated -- and controversial sea voyage of the 21st century. . . ."

Schivone emphasizes his Jewish identity no less than eight times, and repeatedly emphasizes the influence of his identity on his anti-Israel activity. For instance, he writes, "I am one of a growing number of American Jews who are determined to shake off an assumed -- and largely imposed -- association with Israel"; "For our part, we Jews launched an initial chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace at the UA campus. . . ."; "Through JVP, I discovered there were a great many others like me, who were experiencing profound internal conflicts regarding Israel"; ". . . we as Jews had an alternative to either unquestioning support of Israel (the status quo) or staying silent and thus supporting it by default. I myself was silent and timid for much too long.

"We are committed to acting out of Jewish ethical traditions. . . ."

But there is just one problem -- Schivone is not Jewish.

Read the whole thing.

The FringeGroups blog describes this as a phenomenon:

What are we to make of the Schivone Jews ? Gabriel here is the purest form: no Jewish background whatever, but this lack compensated by a strong desire to work against Israel. The old joke was about the fervent anti-Communist being some-sort-of Communist, so, why not, by that logic the anti-Jew surely has claim to being, at the very least, a some-sort-of Jew. This pure form of being a Schivone Jew may be rare, it is the Schivone Jew in the strong sense.

Much less rare is the Schivone Jew in a weaker sense.

Most of the few active anti-Israel Jews that I have known fall into this category. Usually there was a Jewish parent (whether mother or father, in this context, matters little) but a life totally apart from any other Jewish entanglement. The spouse (or, more often, the "partner") would not be Jewish, and, of course, there would not be synagogue membership, except when that involves, as it sometimes does, anti-Israel activism. In short, the self-identification as "Jewish" comes up for one and only one purpose: a life devoted to fighting against Israel. Which brings us to a definition of the Schivone Jew: someone of little or no Jewish background who, nevertheless, petulantly claims a Jewish identify for the sole purpose of agitating against Israel as an aggrieved Jew.

As it happens, Schivone Jews seem to predominate in the major self-styled "Jewish" groups that oppose Israel. This is certainly true of Jewish Voice for Peace (of which Gabriel Schivone is a member and reports "many non-Jewish Americans" as members) and perhaps also of Michael Lerner's Tikkun (which acknowledges that 40% of its readership is non-Jewish).

Syria happy that they are getting support from - Cuba

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 10:51 AM PDT

From Syria's SANA news agency:

HAVANA, (SANA) – Cuba on Friday rejected the UN Security Council statement on Syria and stressed its confidence that the Syrian people and government will solve their internal problems.

Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcos Rodriguez, reiterated in a statement Cuba's deep concern over dealing with the situation in Syria by the Security Council under pressure by the West powers, AFP reported.

The statement added that Havana reiterates confidence in the ability of the Syrian government and people to solve their internal problems without any foreign intervention and calls for full respect to the sovereignty and independence of Syria.

Wow...Cuba! I had no idea that Syria had such influential support!

Meanwhile, there are reports of 15 more killed today, random shelling by tanks in Hama - the usual stuff.

Africans sending aid to Gaza. Gazans sending aid to Africa. Round and round it goes.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:41 AM PDT

Africans are sending an aid shipment to Gaza. Or at least, they were as of May 15th.:

The Africa to Gaza Aid Convoy send off was a huge success. The spirit of the convoy team members, numerous dignitaries, the press and the public, made for a truly great occasion. Leaving right on time for the beginning of their grueling journey, the convoy left town with a police escort to the cheers of a very emotional and appreciative crowd. An amazing experience was had by all.

The last update on their webpage was from July 16th when they were in Kenya.

Their Facebook page gets updated but without many specifics of where they are, what they are taking, or anything else.

But while they are on their journey, perhaps they will meet the aid going the other way - from Gaza to Somalia! From ABNA (Iran):

The Arab Medical Union in Gaza has been campaigning to raise funds to aid famine-stricken Somalians as the country sees the worst drought in sixty years.

''The campaign is aimed at showing the physical cohesion between the besieged Gaza and Somalia, and that the Palestinians have the ability to support and stand by the Somalis,'' said Abdurrahman al-Haddad, the coordinator for the AMU emergency committee.

He added that despite the Gazans' ordeal, they still ''feel the pain'' of Muslims everywhere, especially in Somalia, where tragedy abounds.

The AMU has already sent a delegation and several aid convoys to Somalia, Haddad said, pointing out that those who saw what was happening there first-hand said the disaster is ''greater than can be described'', as some 11 million Somalians are at risk of dying and four million experience hunger.

He went on to say that the campaign, titled ''from Gaza...hand in hand to save the children of Somalia'', will continue throughout Ramadan.

It's a perpetual motion machine of humanitarian aid! (Just don't pay attention to the electric cable running out the back of the machine, coming from the West.)

(h/t Faith, Folderol)

August rocket calendar

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:45 AM PDT

G=Grad
Q=Qassam
M=Mortar
P=Unidentified projectile (includes mortars)
R=Unidentified rocketS=Fell short in Gaza
F=Fatality (Green-Gaza, Red-Israel)
[] - Palestinian claims

August 2011

Iranian Revolutionary Guards site accuses Ahmadinejad of being Jewish

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 07:31 AM PDT

There have been rumors that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was really Jewish for a couple of years now, but now the Iranian Revolutionary Guards site is amplifying that claim.

Al Arabiya reports that, according to the website "Basirat", they have documentation that Ahmadinejad belongs to a secret Jewish organization (translated as "Peripatetic," perhaps freemasons?) that is related to the secret Jewish underground.

The site stressed that they have nothing against Jews, but they don't like that Ahmadinejad was hiding his supposed roots.

Right.

This shows again that for all his bluster, Ahmadinejad doesn't rule the country - the Ayatollahs do.

New poster series: Boycott Arab States!

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:36 AM PDT

Here's my latest poster series, pointing out the hypocrisy of those who want to boycott Israel because of how it supposedly treats Palestinian Arabs. I'll probably be adding more to this post over time.

This week's Latma TV

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:40 AM PDT

Tent protests political? Perish the thought!

"Liberal" Saif Qaddafi now embracing Islamists

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 04:44 AM PDT

I've mentioned a couple of times how the New York Times fawned over Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi, Mouammar's son, in the past. One of their more memorable quotes was "Mr. Qaddafi is, experts say, clearly an emerging force for liberalization."

Clearly!

The NYT today is trying to make up for its very poor judgment - and choice of "experts."

After six months battling a rebellion that his family portrayed as an Islamist conspiracy, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's son and one-time heir apparent said Wednesday that he was reversing course to forge a behind-the-scenes alliance with radical Islamist elements among the Libyan rebels to drive out their more liberal-minded confederates.

"The liberals will escape or be killed," the son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, vowed in an hourlong interview that stretched past midnight. "We will do it together," he added, wearing a newly grown beard and fingering Islamic prayer beads as he reclined on a love seat in a spare office tucked in a nearly deserted downtown hotel. "Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what?"

Do you think that the paper will learn from its mistakes when it credulously quotes other Arab leaders who are mouthing words of liberalism, democracy and reform?

There are reports that this bloodthirsty former liberal just lost his brother in an airstrike.

Swastika, "Islam will rule" vandalism of Toronto synagogue

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:44 AM PDT

From CTV:

A synagogue in the city's northeast end was the target of anti-Semitic graffiti.

Staff members of Beth Tikvah Synagogue on Thursday found the words "Islam will rule" and a swastika spray-painted on the exterior of their building.

According to a press release published by the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, police have been contacted and measures were taken to increase the security at the synagogue.

Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Canadian Jewish organization said in a statement that the primary concern is the safety of the staff and its congregants.

"We will remain vigilant in the wake of this disturbing and offensive event."