Elder of Ziyon notes the huge numbers of Palestinians from the West Bank who now routinely arrive for Friday Prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, giving the lie to those who malign Israel for supposedly keeping very tight controls on would-be visitors. He notes that during the most recent week, 60,000 Palestinians attended Friday Prayers, and that […]
Moshe Dayan’s Great Mistake
In June 1967, Israeli paratroopers under the command of Mordechai (Motta) Gur broke through the Jordanian defenses and captured the Old City, where the Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, and the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – are all contained. Many Israelis believed that after 19 years of being denied access, they, […]
Iran goes to OIC to bemoan ‘desecration of Islamic sanctities’ over Temple Mount and Charlie Hebdo ‘insults’
Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is garnering support at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its stand against the “desecration of Islamic sanctities” that Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir allegedly committed with his visit to the Temple Mount. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently stated: “A visit by a minister from Israel’s government […]
UN to hold ’emergency’ Security Council session over Ben-Gvir visit to Temple Mount
The commotion about Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount is intended to further an international gang-up against Israel in the face of a new government that refuses to appease the Palestinian jihadist quest to obliterate Israel “from the River to the Sea.” Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Gilad Erdan has slammed an upcoming “emergency” Security Council […]
Biden’s Handlers: Jews Visiting Holy Site is ‘Unacceptable’
How do you make apartheid sound good? Just call it the “historic status quo.” Under Muslim rule, the historic status quo by the invaders was to ban Jews from their own holiest site, the Temple Mount. When Jerusalem was liberated, there was a vocal insistence by the Muslims who had launched a war to destroy […]
Israel’s new National Security Adviser Visits Temple Mount, Arabs and Bidenites Horrified
Itamar Ben-Gvir, formulaically identified in the Western media as “far right,” is Israel’s new National Security Adviser. He is known for wanting to assert more forcefully the Jewish claim to the Temple Mount, by having more Jews visit the site routinely, and by ceasing to prohibit Jewish visitors from praying, both openly and silently. On […]
More Muslims Visit Al-Aqsa Now Than When Jordan Held It
On Friday, November 18, according to Arab websites, 60,000 Muslims visited the Al Aqsa Mosque complex on the Temple Mount. Elder of Ziyon has reminded us here that before the Six-Day War, far fewer Muslims would visit Al-Aqsa or the Temple Mount compound. Here are pictures of Muslim worshippers on Temple Mount today, and in […]
Israel: Muslims from Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Africa go to Temple Mount to engage in ‘Jihad Tourism’
Fun for the whole family. “‘Jihad Tourism’ on the Rise at Temple Mount,” by Baruch Yadid, TPS, November 8, 2022: (TPS) Sources in the Islamic Waqf, which administers the Temple Mount, told TPS on Monday that marriage contracts will now be processed at the Al Aqsa Mosque rather than in a Sharia Court office in […]
Palestinians Reach New Level Of Hysteria Over Jewish Plot to Seize Al-Aqsa Mosque
One sure way the Palestinian leaders whip up an anti-Israel frenzy among their people is to claim that Israel is intent on changing the status quo on the Temple Mount, by allowing Jews to pray on the Mount, something the Israeli government has always forbidden. Israel is also charged with increasing the number of Jews […]
Palestinians, Yet Again, Attack Jewish Pilgrims On Temple Mount
Another Jewish holiday, another Arab attack on Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount. This time, it was the religious holiday of Shavuot, on June 5, exactly a week after Jerusalem Day, May 29, when Arabs last threw rocks and Molotov cocktails from inside Al-Aqsa at Jewish pilgrims. A report on the latest outbreak of Arab […]