Articles by Eldad Tzioni

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/palestinian-candidate-for-congress.html Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar is suddenly receiving media attention because his Republican opponent has been indicted on corruption charges. From AP: Campa-Najjar said he is proud of his heritage but is American first. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/al-qaeda-leader-denounces-hamas-as-not.html Al Qaeda leader  Ayman al-Zawahri launched an attack on Hamas because of their attempts at reconciliation and dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In a voice message, al-Zawahri criticized Hamas’s declaration of principles and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/facebooks-essential-extremism-vic.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column There are 7.6 billion humans on this earth. 2.23 billion of them logged on to Facebook (the number counts “monthly active users”) during the second quarter of 2018. I don’t know about you, but […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/anthropologists-like-to-lie-about.html Here is an abstract of a paper given at the European Association of Social Anthropologists meeting in Stockholm last week, with my fact checks. Shifting populations, permanent instability, suspended stay: contemporary mobilities in Palestine and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/did-un-just-say-that-jew-cannot-kill-17.htmlAcheadline and lede for an AP article : The UN political chief called on Israel Wednesday to ensure that urgently needed humanitarian supplies for the Gaza Strip are not “held hostage to political and security […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/non-violent-icon-ahed-tamimi-thanks.html Ahed Tamimi, who spent 8 months in Israeli prison for slapping a soldier and espousing violence, has sent a message to Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah on Lebanese TV. Al Jadeed TV broadcast a fawning […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/is-there-such-thing-as-legitimate.html Is there such a thing as “legitimate criticism” of Israel? Should the identity of the critic have an impact on how we view the criticism? Or is criticizing Israel always, inevitably, antisemitic? Let’s examine […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/islamic-movement-leader-in-israel-says.html From Palestine Today: The deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the occupied Palestinian territories Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib said that Jerusalem and its holy mosque are being subjected to the most serious attacks of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/muslim-public-slaughter-during-eid.html Wikipedia describes Muslim slaughter, and it sounds a lot like Jewish rules for slaughtering animals: According to Islamic tradition, the animal is brought to the place of slaughter and laid down gently so as […]