Scratch that last post of mine about Congresswoman Donna Edwards. In response to the AIPAC/lobby shot across her bow in Politico last week over her failure to stand up for Israel no matter what, J Street immediately raised $15,000 for…
Four months after voting “present” when the House voted to support Israel in whatever it wanted to do in Gaza, Congresswoman Donna Edwards of Maryland is already feelin the heat (or the hate, depending how you see these things). Politico…
I know you’ve seen a ton of pictures of Palestinians standing next to rubble in Gaza. This picture’s not about that. It’s about the civil society that still exists in Gaza, despite cruel persecution. The location is the beautiful garden…
The white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens has latched on to the Blumenthal video from Jerusalem as a sign of the decadence of the Democratic Party and the Jewish left. These white nationalists love Israel’s religious nationalism and fear that it…
Washington Times says that Obama’s Jerusalem language in Cairo last week–speaking of it as an interfaith city, with hints of internationalism–is reflected in the White House’s latest issuance of a standard periodical memorandum on not moving the embassy to Jerusalem,…
Bruce Wolman writes: When Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington last month, Israeli media reported he was quite shocked at the reception he received in his closed-door meetings with Congress. It appeared the Obama administration had lined up fellow Democrats to…
When I was in Gaza, an Arab-American in one of our delegations told me that the Jewish identity piece of the puzzle was a “sideshow.” I agreed with him at the time. The scale of the suffering and destruction, perpetrated…
Last Saturday, John Mearsheimer spoke to the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit. Mearsheimer tends to be pessimistic, but at the end of his speech he urged Muslims to work with enlightened Jews to put pressure on Israel and bring abut…
Jasmin Ramsey at Pulse: I sat down with a group of Jewish Canadians who were conversing about Israel’s current government. They agreed that while there are not many significant differences between the actions of parties like Kadima and Likud when…