AIPAC backs a two state solution. But its refusal to comment when the Trump administration ‘legalized’ Israeli settlements, a key obstacle to any future Palestinian…
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Be prepared for a complete lack of self-awareness, strange ahistorical assertions – and a jarring similarity to the selective framing of anti-Semitism championed by one…
The ICE propaganda machine kept telling us how humanely detainees were treated, even that inmates ‘chose’ solitary confinement. But we know what we saw Source:…
The mainstream media is noisily shocked at the leaked audio of Richard Spencer’s racist rantings. But it serially platformed him – and his boosters from…
The mainstream media is noisily shocked at alt-right Spencer’s racist, anti-Semitic tirade. But it serially platformed him – and his boosters from the left Source:…
Within the space of days, I witnessed the dark, disturbing gap between U.S. Jews’ egalitarian embrace of Israeli Arabs – and their invisibility in Israel’s…
A year since the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue that killed eleven congregants – the deadliest attack ever on the Jewish community…
Three-quarters of U.S. Jews disapprove of how Trump is handling the threat of anti-Semitism. They see a president who emboldens the violent Jew-haters who look…
Netanyahu turned his back on U.S. Jewry in its greatest time of need – and most Israelis couldn’t care less Source: https://www.haaretz.com
There was once a war between Yiddish and Hebrew. For a motley band of pro-Israel Yiddish-haters, that battle is still raging – and a production…
It’s not surprising that ex-Soviet Jews have a kneejerk response to the word ‘socialism.’ But it’s a gross manipulation of Soviet Jewry’s suffering to contend…
Democratic Union’s Shaffir is excellent on environmental affairs and corruption, but I’ve yet to hear from her any concrete plans to address Israel’s most existential…
If Stephens’ Nazi bedbugs response was gross and cheapened the Holocaust, what about ‘Trump is Hitler’? Nasty tweets in 2019 just don’t equal Nazi Germany…
Donald Trump has made crude, strident attempts to guilt-trip U.S. Jews into the white political camp. Does the long, proud tradition of American Jewish liberalism…
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For years he boogalooed around the issue, dog-whistling Dixie. But he just pulled the pin off the grenade – and for electoral gain. Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The president’s promotion of white nationalism, his ‘infestation’ talk redolent of Nazi propaganda, his attempt to make Jews pawns in his racist power play, mean…
Trump’s apparent pivot towards the ‘America First’ isolationism of Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson is a bitter shock for his Jewish and evangelical donors and…