The U.S. invasion of Iraq and its consequences for American veterans partly explain why they supported Trump. The war was hatched in Washington, not the Rust Belt.

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison pretends to be “more of a Zionist than Herzl, Ben-Gurion and Begin combined,” but if you go back to his record, “he is clearly an anti-Semite, an anti-Israel individual.” Haim Saban smears the DNC chair candidate at a fancy Washington dinner.

Jewish groups are conducting a “witch hunt” against Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison because he has dared to criticize Israel, and it exposes “a very bad tendency” of the Jewish community, the leader of the liberal Zionist group J Street said last night to a Jewish audience in New York.

Jimmy Carter urged President Obama to recognize Palestinian state in what time he has left to save two-state solution, but State Department, AIPAC and veteran peace processors Aaron Miller and Dennis Ross say Nothing doing!

Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt says that the “alt right” is a euphemism for white nationalism and supremacism, and the media should tell Americans as much; but as for those who oppose Jewish nationalism in Palestine as a form of Jewish supremacism, she says they are anti-Semites.

David Brooks is angry about the non-interventionists who have taken over the Republican Party. These populists “hate journalists,” he says. He ought to reflect on his support for the Iraq war, which paved the way for the political revolution on the right.

Here’s the juice from Yakov Hirsch: Six years ago Peter Beinart came to realizations about Israel and the US Jewish community that Jeffrey Goldberg tried to suppress but that he is now expressing himself. For this reason Beinart is about to replace Goldberg as most important Jewish journalist and leader of the Trump opposition.

During his round of interviewing potential job applicants, Donald Trump had one meeting with a…

Sunday night demonstration in NY was a time to reclaim Judaism from the crotchety bastards who have taken up space at the head of the dinner table for too long, plugging their ears with their fingers and yelling “self-hating Jew” at any critic of Israel until they ended up so out of touch that they thought it was okay to give a guy like Steve Bannon a pass.

In Boston Sunday night, VT Senator Bernie Sanders said the “fight” and “struggle” within the Democratic Party is whether it will go beyond identity politics, and claims for diversity, and stand up for workers. “The working class of this country is being decimated. That’s why Donald Trump won.”