Articles by Eldad Tzioni

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/muslims-make-up-story-of-olympic.html The Muslim world was still upset over the Egyptian judoka loss to an Israeli on Friday, where Islam El Shahaby refused to shake hands with Israeli Or Sasson after his defeat. So they have […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/morte-michael-lumish_14.html I was going to name this piece “The Death of American Politics” but American politics has been dying since it was born. That is, American politics has been so partisan and so toxic for so […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/egyptian-olympic-committee-says-judoka.html By now, everyone has read about the Egyptian judoka who refused to shake hands with his Israeli opponent after his loss in Rio Israeli judoka Or Sasson defeated Egyptian rival Islam El Shahaby in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-christian-tisha-bav.html Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, occurs tomorrow but will be marked on Sunday. It is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar, marking the destruction of both Temples […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-other-olympic-sport-that.htmlThe Reuters article we’ve been discussing about Mary al-Atrash, the Palestinian Olympics swimmer, had a subtext. The impression that the reader was supposed to get upon reading the story was that she, and by extension […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/pa-cabinet-says-that-israel-rewarding.html Earlier this week I reported that an Israeli plan to give special rewards to Arab schools in Jerusalem to adopt the Israeli curriculum, which would allow students to more easily go to Israeli universities, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/somehow-gazans-get-help-via.htmlOne of the fundamental principles of the BDS movement, which we are constantly told reflects the will of “Palestinian civil society,” is that any interaction with Israel or Israelis is forbidden. This is, of course, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/no-france-israels-isnt-violating.html From Times of Israel: France on Thursday condemned Israel over last week’s demolition of several structures, funded by the French government, in a Palestinian village north of Jerusalem. “France condemns the Israeli army’s destruction […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/eoztv-conversation-with-ben-dror-yemini.htmlIn which we discuss Haaretz as well as how people falsely label him, a Labor voter, as “right wing” in order to delegitimize his opinions. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/summary-of-muslim-world-antisemitism-in.html Here are some of the examples of antisemitism that the State Department listed in its annual Religious Freedom report. Afghanistan: There are small numbers of practitioners of other religions, including one Jew. Algeria: Practitioners […]