Senator Lindsey Graham wanted to visit Israel “in the most desperate way” to convey to Netanyahu that Congress will have “violent pushback” against a Palestinian statehood bid at the U.N., and that Congress will reimpose sanctions on Iran “at the drop of a hat.”
The center in the Israel Palestine discourse is collapsing — witness Peace Now’s latest letter, a plea for irrelevance that channels Henny Youngman and makes no reference at all to Israel’s political crisis or the settlements, lest folks should start to argue
Israeli-American writer Caroline Glick says that Jews have claimed Israel for 3500 years so they are the indigenous people of the land; and thus the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were expelled in 1948 are not refugees.
All the free-speech rules go out the window for Israel. You can make a movie about killing a foreign dictator and the president will stand up for you, but if you liken Israel to ISIS, as Chris Hedges did, then you get disinvited from a speaking gig at Penn
William Pfaff says the 2016 American elections threaten Israel’s “total isolation” from western democracies in the wake of the Gaza slaughters and the rise of a defiant Netanyahu coalition
An email chain expressing concern about Israel’s image in the wake of the Gaza slaughter has been leaked in the recent Sony hacking scandal, and shows Hollywood producers joined with rightwingers in support for the Jewish state.
It used to be verboten to suggest that the Israel lobby helped drive the disastrous decision to invade Iraq. Now James Mann says as much of the neoconservatives. And Chris Matthews says the same of Hillary Clinton.
Facing a breakaway movement of idealistic Jews who are open to criticism of Israel, Hillel International announces a smartphone app that equates statements against Israel with anti-Semitism and hate speech
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says he stopped taunting demonstrators last Saturday because he couldn’t be filmed on Sabbath. The religious claim sounds flimsy and is not borne out by the videotape. He kept shouting even knowing he was being filmed.