Eli Clifton speaks to Mondoweiss about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the shifting landscape of AIPAC, and his new book, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power.
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.
A Michigan rabbis’ ‘nonnegotiable’ petition demanding El-Sayed disown Hasan Piker reveals a harsh truth for El-Sayed: that no amount of pandering will satisfy critics who want anti-Zionism expelled from the Democratic party outright.
Dr. Sang Hea Kil was suspended by San Jose State University before becoming the first tenured professor to lose their job for pro-Palestine advocacy. Now, an arbitrator has ruled that the school must reinstate her.
The Gaza genocide has prompted people across the U.S., including American Jews, to reconsider their relationship with Israel. The stories of five Jews in Ithaca, NY, illustrate how some are beginning to envision a future without Zionism.
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.
Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly has exposed the crisis of Zionism in the U.S. and Jewish leaders’ desperation to confront it.
The Jewish community and the Democratic Party are being torn apart over their complicity in the Gaza genocide and decades of supporting Palestinian oppression. This overdue reckoning will only be resolved by abandoning Zionism.
The Iran crisis has shown yet again how Israel dominates U.S. politics. It also made clear that Zionism is an ideology based on nothing but brutal violence. The urgent task before American Jews is to dissociate themselves from this rogue state.