The Israel lobby is losing its grip on U.S. electoral politics, but it won’t go out without a fight. American Jews cannot wait to see how it plays out. The Jewish future depends on our awakening.
From Iraq to Iran, the Israel lobby has, for decades, pushed America towards wars in the Middle East. But with Trump’s wildly unpopular Iran war, the unshakeable power of the Israel lobby is finally being called into question.
In a widely read New York Times article, Nicholas Lemann claims anti-Zionism in the progressive world marginalizes Jews. Yet his failure to even mention Palestinians reveals his ignorance of Zionism’s role in driving the crisis he seeks to confront.
Philip Weiss speaks with Bruce Robbins about his book “Who’s Allowed to Protest” and the new McCarthyism on campus targeting those who support justice for Palestine.
My generation of Jews entered Harvard in the 1970s as outsiders and left as the establishment that built support for Israel. Today, attitudes have shifted completely, yet my group still can’t discuss Palestine. Fortunately, no one is waiting for us.
Keir Starmer is facing a political crisis, in part because of his support for Israel, as a rising star in the party calls for sanctions against the “pariah” state. Gaza has altered politics forever, and the shock waves are now reaching the UK.
Over the past two years, Israel has lost the support of the American public and is now losing one of its last bulwarks in the political arena — prominent voices in the mainstream media.
A revolution is underway within the Jewish community as youth abandon Zionism following the Gaza genocide. While the community scrambles to respond, the Israel lobby is being fractured in the process.
Benjamin Anthony’s speech at New York’s influential Park Avenue Synagogue, where he argued that U.S. Jews need to support ethnic cleansing in Gaza, illustrates how the American Jewish community has embraced Israeli racism and brutality.
Despite the seriousness of the claims made by Joe Kent – that Israel dragged the U.S. into war with Iran despite Iran posing no imminent threat – the liberal media is ignoring the real story by painting Kent as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.