American-born Team Israel Olympian praises Trump's fight vs antisemitism, but won't play for Team USA

Team Israel Olympic bobsledder Adam Edelman is looking to pb his squad backmost to the Winter Games for the archetypal clip since Pyeongchang successful 2018. 

If they suffice for Cortina-Milan adjacent year, it would people his and his teammates' instrumentality to the Olympics aft failing to suffice for Beijing successful 2022. It would besides people their archetypal travel backmost to the Winter Games since their state was attacked by Hamas connected Oct. 7, 2023. 

"We were blessed to person a squad acceptable to spell connected October 7 and erstwhile October 7 came, erstwhile it was perpetrated connected Israel, each 1 of them had to beryllium called to war. So it truly changed the dynamic of the squad implicit the past mates years," Edelman told Fox News Digital.

"The extremity of the squad aft October 7 was to exist." 

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Israel's Adam Edelman slows down astatine the extremity of the men's skeleton vigor 2 during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, astatine the Olympic Sliding Centre connected Feb. 15, 2018 successful Pyeongchang, South Korea. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Edelman recalled his squad adjusting to a caller starter successful each contention it participated in, for a time. 

All the while, helium has had to unrecorded beneath the poorness enactment successful bid to support his committedness to starring the squad for the past 12 years. He adjacent says helium had to merchantability each of his bitcoin, which helium says would person been worthy millions contiguous if helium held onto it. 

"It was each spent connected bobsledding," helium said. "I'd beryllium a mega-millionaire if I inactive had it." 

Edelman admits could person made things overmuch easier for himself if he, a Massachusetts autochthonal and MIT grad, competed for Team USA alternatively of Israel. 

In a athletics that is truthful resource-dependent similar bobsledding, nicknamed F1 connected crystal owed to its hefty costs to beryllium competitive, Edelman knows helium would person had entree to much resources for coaching, training, instrumentality and marketing.

However, for him, that would person defeated the constituent of competing arsenic an Olympian astatine all. 

"I don't adhd thing to the United States. If I were to articulation the United States, the lone worth that would person been added is to my ain journey, but it makes my travel non-additive to different people's journeys," Edelman said. 

"My worth to the world, and wherefore God enactment maine connected this Earth, I genuinely consciousness is to usage the skills that helium gave maine to interaction others positively… truthful I'm solely motivated to correspond Israel. I've thought astir this a lot." 

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Adam Edelman of Israel reacts successful the decorativeness country during the Men's Skeleton heats astatine the Olympic Sliding Centre connected Feb. 16, 2018 successful Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

Still, Edelman is simply a arrogant American and believes that the U.S. is "the top state to ever beryllium successful the past of mankind." 

Additionally, arsenic a Jewish American, Edelman has besides taken pridefulness successful seeing President Donald Trump ace down connected the question of antisemitism that has erupted successful the aftermath of Oct. 7. Edelman said helium saw the antisemitism up-close erstwhile helium went to Columbia during its pro-Palestinian protests successful 2024. 

Trump's medication has frozen billions of dollars to Ivy League universities Columbia and Harvard, declaring the schools violated Jewish students' civilian rights by enabling antisemitic field protests amid the Israel-Gaza struggle implicit the past twelvemonth and a half. 

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The president has adjacent launched a specialized Justice Department task unit fronted by Leo Terrell to tackle the issue. 

"The appropriateness of what the Trump medication has asked for is conscionable enforcing the law. It's conscionable saying ‘hey, these radical are protected nether the civilian rights act' and you’re blatantly not enforcing the civilian rights act. If radical instrumentality over, trespass, battle information guards connected your campus, harass Jews connected the mode to class, acceptable up Jew-free zones, you wouldn't tolerate that for different group," Edelman said. 

The Trump medication besides announced earlier successful April that it would halt much than $1 cardinal successful backing for Cornell University and astir $790 cardinal for Northwestern University amid investigations into alleged civilian rights violations. 

Roughly $510 cardinal successful funds for Brown University could besides beryllium connected the chopping block, a White House authoritative told The Associated Press April 3, owed to allegations of antisemitism astatine the school. 

"I deliberation the mode that the Trump medication has approached galore issues since helium came to bureau is precisely the close way," Edelman said. 

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Israel's Adam Edelman takes disconnected his helmet aft a grooming league for the men's skeleton during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, astatine the Olympic Sliding Centre connected Feb. 14, 2018 successful Pyeongchang, South Korea. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"Some policies are good, immoderate policies are bad, and this is an inexplicably bully policy. Make definite that American institutions of higher acquisition bash not proceed this pathway to being truthful inaccessible to Americans, but besides indoctrination centers of anti-American values." 

As Edelman looks to propulsion his squad backmost to the Winter Olympics successful Cortina Milan successful 2026, helium aspires to beryllium a dependable for Americans and Jews successful a analyzable clip successful history. 

He hopes the remainder of the communicative tin admit the underdog communicative that helium and his teammates are sledding through.

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