Martin Indyk says Democratic politicians are having less to do with Israel because the party base doesn’t support the country, and Obama’s recent indifference to Israel suggests he wants nothing to do with the country. He told Israel what it had to do years ago and Israelis ignored him.
Why is the Meltzer group, a US life insurance company, underwriting a talk by an Israeli reserve colonel defending Israel’s conduct in the Gaza slaughter of last summer? At a Washington synagogue.
The White House bridled yesterday at Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the U.S. is violating “American values” in opposing Israeli expansion into East Jerusalem. Press secretary Josh Earnest lectured the Prime Minister on American support and singled out the new Jewish settlements in Silwan and Givat Hamatos
Marc Ellis on his latest book “Burning Children: A Jewish View of the War in Gaza.”
Jews Say NO! and Jewish Voice for Peace/NY write a letter to New York Senators Charles Schumer
and Kirsten Gillibrand asking them to to enforce provisions of federal law that require the termination of aid to any unit of a foreign military for which there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.
Melissa Clark is a foodwriting star. She’s at the New York Times and has authored…
Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke made the mistake of voting against emergency funding to Israel at the height of the Gaza massacres this summer. His own donors have expressed anger with him in El Paso, and O’Rourke has reached out to local Jewish leaders and the Israel lobby group AIPAC. And after the “healing process,” he’s going to Israel.
This is now six days old, but we failed to pick it up: Steven Salaita…
The last 24 hours have been a glorious moment for liberal Zionists. They have taken…
Dan Fischer explains why he removed an insert titled “Prayer for the Soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces” from his synagogue’s Yom Kippur service last year.