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Tommy Vietor apologizes for supporting the Yemen war. J Street, Oct. 28, 2019. Screenshot from video. Ben Rhodes is at the center, Julian Castro at the right.

“I look back [with] regret at Gaza,” Ben Rhodes confesses at J Street. While another Obama official Tommy Vietor says the Yemen war was “wrong” and a “disaster.” And NY City Councilman Brad Lander says he regrets keeping quiet about Palestinian human rights over 10 years of defending Israel. “I was pushed to find more courage,” he says.

Two NY teens are running the presidential campaign of former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel and under a url, “netanyahu-sucks,” they offer a serious critique of policy on Israel. Both parties have been passive as Israel has “enacted racist apartheid-style policies designed to disenfranchise Palestinians.” Gravel seeks an end to military aid to Israel, an end of the Israel lobby’s “undue influence,” and openness to a “plural state” in Israel and Palestin.

NYU president James Hamilton roundly condemned graduation speaker Steven William Thrasher for endorsing BDS against “apartheid” Israel in a speech at commencement Wednesday. Hamilton issued a statement saying remarks were one-sided and made some feel “unwelcome.” Astounding obeisance to Israel supporters! And not a word about Thrasher calling Trump a “fascist.”