President Trump’s selfish assault on integrity of U.S. elections echoes Netanyahu’s destructive attack on the rule of law Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Posts published in “U.S. election 2020”
Out of office, but unrepudiated, Trump will now be unconstrained, letting loose the extremists in his base, his own tribalistic nationalism and his contempt for…
U.S. Jews constitutes some of Trump’s fiercest opponents – and his most fervent supporters. This is how, and why, the split happened, and whether the…
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U.S. Jews constitutes some of Trump’s fiercest opponents – and his most fervent supporters. This is how, and why, the split happened, and whether the…
The arc of ex-Never Trump Jews like Bethany Mandel, who feared Trump for stoking antisemitism but now love him for aiding Israel’s territorial maximalists, is…
My daughter’s question haunted me: Our sense of safety has been deeply shaken over the last four years. That’s why, as an African-American Jew, backing…
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Four years ago, I wrote here that a win by Trump, courting white supremacists, meant ‘the ascendancy of hate.’ But my fears about his presidency…
Of all the world’s leaders, its right-wing populists and ethno-nationalists, no one embraced America’s betrayer as fully and as short-sightedly as Netanyahu. The years ahead…
Taunting Trump on COVID, autocracy and white supremacy, the unrelenting campaigns of Never Trumpers from the Lincoln Project to Bill Kristol have got under the…
Backing Trump is a morally disastrous decision for Orthodox Jews, and for Orthodox rabbis in particular. He stands against everything we believe in Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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The violent conflict in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods over compliance with COVID-19 regulations reveals far more about the community’s retreat from an inclusive American democracy –…
Trump has zeroed in on Khartoum for another diplomatic ‘win’ before November. But his maximum pressure campaign is a disaster in the making – both…
Trump has proven to be an unreliable, moody, short-sighted and overly transactional ally for India. On critical issues like China and Iran, trade and terrorism,…
The Pharoah of 2020 America, always so ready to turn his Jewish relatives into political props, should have brushed up on his Bible. Magic and…
How the Republican Jewish Coalition lost its ethics, dignity and purpose, to became the Sheldon Adelson-backed Jewish community stooge of a demagogue who dog-whistles, loudly,…
There’s nothing unethical about a Do Not Go Out to Vote campaign. Trump’s hospitalization with COVID could help that strategy – and his chances in…