The Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli military outfit housed at Tel Aviv University, just delivered its strategic assessment report, and the main takeaway is that Israel’s “special relationship” with the US is in danger.

The change is attributed to a generational shift in American politics due to “the influence that the progressive young generation has had in denying the legitimacy of Israel and Zionism, which they see as expressions of white-colonialist supremacy.” 

As progressives, including two Jewish groups, try to block $1 billion in extra aid to Israel, liberal Zionists are once again stuck in the middle, unable to come out against the funding and thereby alienate the mainstream Israel lobby.