Florida’s loss by the Democrats was due to the deliberate decision by Florida Democratic Party to sideline Black, Latino, AAPI, immigrant, and Muslim voters.
GOP renews attacks on Raphael Warnock after 2018 video emerges showing Warnock condemning Israel for shooting Palestinian protestors.
US election showed that American Jews and Israeli Jews could not be more different, American Jews dislike Netanyahu two-to-one, and so the Israel lobby is divided forever, because the Jewish community is divided on the Israel question, with many young Jews supporting boycott. And that divide will continue to spur political debate.
The New York Times buries the report that Defense Department officials worry that Trump might order American troops to fire weapons at Iran. While Elliott Abrams is in the Mideast, pushing for a “flood” of new sanctions on Iran.
Saeb Erekat, 65, chief Palestinian negotiator and longtime leader in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), passed away on Tuesday following a month-long battle with COVID-19.
You wouldn’t know it from reading media reports, but the recent Equalities and Human Rights Commission report on the UK Labour Party found there was no case to be made that Labour suffered from “institutional antisemitism”.
Palestinians say that while Trump has been one of, if not the worst, US presidents ever when it comes to Palestine, they don’t really expect things to get much better under Biden.
In a fiery speech in 1986 then Senator Joe Biden said he would “be on the ramparts” in South Africa if he were a black leader there, and justifed armed resistance to apartheid. “Hell they’ve tried to compromise for twenty years. They’ve tried everything. Everything in their power! And look what’s happened to them. They’re being crushed.”
Benjamin Netanyahu wants as much as he can from the last weeks of the Donald Trump presidency, so he took his time to congratulate Joe Biden– waiting till after midnight last night, many hours after other world leaders had sent Biden their best wishes– then lavishly thanked Trump too.
After seven weeks of declining COVID-19 infections across the occupied Palestinian territory, this week marked an increase in active cases for the first time since mid-September, and comes just weeks after students returned to in-person instruction.