The next Israeli government is likely to be just as rightwing as the last, and no one is talking about peace in the election campaign, Mikhael Manekin and Gershom Gorenberg indicate to liberal US Jewish audiences

The Democratic Party base is shifting left on Palestine, but Elizabeth Warren cannot lead such a shift, though she will ultimately reflect it, says a supporter

Hilarious moment at a NY party urging Elizabeth Warren to run: someone asks her position on Palestine and the organizers decide there has been enough dialogue and turn up the music

The Netanyahu speech controversy is a neverending disaster on Capitol Hill and it just keeps piling up headlines. Eighteen congresspeople say they’ll skip it. ‘The Hill’ calls it likely the most controversial speech ever by a foreign leader to a joint session of Congress. Bill Kristol, the head of the neoconservative Emergency Committee for Israel, put out a tongue-in-cheek letter to Hillary Clinton offering her to drive her to the speech.

Many want to bomb Syria as a response to Kayla Mueller’s death. But that would be an insult to her spirit and the work of other great women who have been called by the war on terror to acts of compassion and understanding.

The pressure keeps mounting on Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a face-saving means of cancelling his speech to both houses of Congress next month lest he create a rift between the U.S. and Israel. Almost every Zionist and Israel-supporter seems to agree about this. Only Netanyahu himself seems determined to go forward, and Phil Weiss agrees with him. Here are three reasons the speech is too important to cancel.

In his new book, Roger Cohen’s description of his late mother’s mental illness and the way it traumatized him as a boy is spiritually scouring. His belief that Israel is necessary because Jews feel displaced is not as compelling.

Did you think Isaac Herzog of Labor was running to Netanyahu’s left on the occupied territories? Guess again: Herzog slams Netanyahu for not hitting Gaza early enough and hard enough last summer.

You had to RSVP to an AIPAC email address to attend Ari Shavit’s talk at a Scarsdale Reform temple last Thursday, and the event was a celebration of the rightwing Israel lobby group. And you thought Shavit was a liberal Zionist?

There’s more leftwing anti-semitism than rightwing anti-semitism, according to a new British study. But what is that alleged anti-semitism? Sharp criticism of Israel.