Pro-Israel groups claim that recent incidents at the University of Vermont constitute antisemitism because for some Jewish students, “Zionism is integral to their Jewish ethnic identity.”
Mainstream voices say the Trump-Biden policy of normalizing relations between Israel and Arab monarchies so as to crush Palestinian hopes is working. “If you talk to the UAE leaders or Saudi Arabia leaders or even Egyptian leaders, they don’t want to hear now about the Palestinian issue, they don’t want to stick their fingers into this mess. Let Israel deal with it,” says Ehud Yaari an advocate for Israel at the Washington Institute.
Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first trip to Palestine as president in July. The visit will serve as yet another message to the Palestinian people that Israel is working hand in hand with the US, and whether a Democrat or a Republican is in the White House, that isn’t going to change.
Democratic lawmakers harshly criticized Republicans who denied the 2020 presidential election results. Now some of them are linked to these same election deniers via AIPAC.
When Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) introduced a nonbinding resolution in support of a two-state solution in 2019, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) called it “a one-sided take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” and Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) was even more direct: “I stand against a two-state solution.” Mast doesn’t represent some sort of hardline minority — he was voicing what has now become the GOP consensus.
At the Zionist Organization of America’s annual gala, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that Israel does not occupy any Palestinian land.
Israel has just approved a plan to double the roughly 25,000 settlers on the occupied Syrian Golan heights. Because Biden refused to reverse Trump’s decision on the illegally-acquired territory. And because leftwing Meretz, a government coalition party, went along too, saying the matter was “complicated.” Only Ahmad Tibi says the truth: the Golan belongs to Syria.
Barak Ravid’s new book on the Trump administration offers a fascinating look at how the “special relationship” works.
Donald Trump’s normalization deal known as The Abraham Accords wasn’t enough for Benjamin Netanyahu, so he surprised the U.S. administration with a call to annex the West Bank.