Liberal Zionists who are trying to save Israel from itself have adopted a term fashioned by the left– “one-state reality”– and are calling for U.S. pressure against Jewish colonization of the West Bank.
Amichai Chikli’s crude insults against American Jews personify Israel’s hubris in biting the American hand that feeds it. The White House is reportedly unhappy but continues to turn the other cheek. This won’t last forever.
Liberal Zionists issue a perfunctory statement of outrage on Mohammed al-Tamimi’s murder– “devastating and awful” — then it’s back to promoting the fantasy of a two-state solution and the insult of the Abraham Accords.
Antony Blinken resurrected the two-state zombie in his address to AIPAC on the 56th anniversary of the 1967 War. But the number of true believers in Washington who buy these fantasies is dwindling.
The political battle over the future of Israel and Palestine is coming to New York, and that is good news for all who care about Palestinian freedom.
“Americans more and more are opposing the state of Israel. Democrats primarily are moving to a negative place visavis Israel, most related to the Palestinian conflict” –Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Joe Biden won’t do anything to punish Israel for breaking its word again on settlements because he needs the Israel lobby to stay with Democrats in 2024. And liberal Zionists seem to go along.
Recent attacks against Roger Waters are the latest example of false accusations of antisemitism being weaponized to defend Israeli apartheid.
Ron DeSantis visited Israel four times in recent years — the sum total of his official foreign visits. He’s trying to put Trump and the Democrats in a bind on blind support for the “Jewish state.”
The story of Ethiopian Jews is “the best reminder that Israel, whatever else is said against it, has been a beacon for the oppressed,” Bret Stephens writes. But that’s not true.