NY Times runs a full-page ad smearing Max Blumenthal as an anti-Semite because he is critical of Israel; and the ad is the paper’s first mention of his important 2013 book, Goliath.
Why is AIPAC giving a national stage before 20,000 people to Donald Trump after he openly promotes violence and bigotry?
For the last several weeks there has been much speculation over whether presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would address the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC. Today, Sanders announced that he will not attend due to campaign commitments, but he would like to share his remarks with AIPAC members.
Due to a fear of Donald Trump’s candidacy, Ted Cruz suddenly seems palatable to the Republican establishment. He has garnered high-profile endorsements and represents for many the last hope of a “conservative” candidate to save the party in this election. But the facts remain – Ted Cruz is the most radical candidate in the field and he himself made this clear with his new advisors on national security: Frank Gaffney and Retired Lt. General Jerry Boykin.
Donald Trump, similar to Benjamin Netanyahu, has a gift for manipulating the media to serve his purposes. Regardless of his inconsistent views on Israel, which are likely to fall in line with the traditional Republican do-or-die support at the AIPAC convention, his shenanigans and the mounting unrest they produce are the absolute best thing that could happen to Netanyahu and his extremist government.
In a totally Israel-centric column in the New York Times, Shmuel Rosner says that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump have Israel’s best interests at heart in the coming election. Such Israel-narcissism, in the leading US newspaper!
The Reform Movement’s response to AIPAC’s invitation of Donald Trump a few days ago is a bellwether of how the Jewish establishment views Trump’s candidacy and perhaps, as importantly, how it views itself.Instead of trumpeting its close relationship with AIPAC as an American and Jewish badge of honor, the Reform Movement should have engaged in a process of critical self-reflection. Instead of condemning Trump, it should have paused and drawn the parallels between Trump, the Jewish establishment and Israel’s rhetoric and policies toward Palestinians.
Neoconservatives were the big losers in Marco Rubio’s defeat. Chris Matthews speaks openly of them as Jewish supporters of Israel, because their power has been eclipsed. Hillary Clinton is sure to make a play for their support. She already has Robert Kagan.
Was Hillary Clinton bribed to support the Iraq war? Her vote was a mistake, she tells Chris Matthews on MSNBC, but “part of what certainly influenced me” was George W. Bush pledging a year before to give $20 billion to rebuild New York.
As the GOP frontrunner Donald Trump continues to pick up victories during primary season his momentum and support base has become more emboldened. With each passing day the level of hateful rhetoric emanating from the campaign continues to shock the world and Trump’s popularity continues to rise as the hate rhetoric continues to flow. Imraan Siddiqi looks at the sharp upswing in violent incidents taking place at the hands of Trump supporters at rallies and beyond.