Just when the Israel lobby was getting back to its feet after Iran Deal, Obama administration wiretaps reveal Israeli officials working with US Jewish groups against the deal. WSJ says Obama authorized taps as a serving a “compelling national security purpose.”

Congress seeks to link Iran with San Bernardino attacks with visa legislation that John Kerry has to apologize for. Iranians talk about the Zionist lobby’s effect; but US media avoid it.

Defending her opposition to the Iran Deal, Rep. Carolyn Maloney mistakes Yemen for Sudan and misstates Qatar and the UAE’s nuclear policies.

Jewish Voice for Peace has strongly opposed Senator Ben Cardin’s new legislation aimed at derailing the Iran Deal. But J Street supports it. The argument against the occupation will finally come to the Democratic Party

A new directive has been given to students to make opposition to the Iran Deal a primary focus of their campus activism and claims: “there is little room for dissent or even discussion over the merits of supporting the Iran deal”. Some students aren’t happy about it.

In Israel’s hour of need, American Jews did not support it on the Iran Deal. They thereby undermined a core principle of US Jewish support for Israel: Judaism is ZIonism. Anti-Zionists have argued that Judaism is not Zionism for years, and lost, till now.

Articles on the aftermath of the Iran Deal say the “Jewish community” will be active in the next political cycle, a reference to big Jewish donors who oppose the deal and want retribution for those who backed it. But most American Jews support the Iran Deal, even if they’re not wielding influence.

Peter Voskamp reports from the Ted Cruz and Donald Trump rally against the Iran Deal on the front lawn of the US Capitol. If placards, t-shirts and other insignia were any indication, the event was filled with an eclectic mix of what used to be strange bedfellows: conservative Tea Partiers, Israel supporters, and all manner of opponents of anyone named Obama, Boehner or those affiliated with the Democratic party. Tank-topped attendees with camouflaged “Duck Dynasty” baseball caps stood next to those wearing business suits and yarmulkes. American and Israeli flags flew in the breeze in front of a large TRUMP banner.

With enemies like Dick Cheney, Shmuley Boteach, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House doesn’t need friends on the Iran Deal!