Advertisements ReThinking Foreign Policy is proud to join the Friends’ Committee on National Legislation, Democracy in the Arab World Now, and 70 more organizations in calling on the Senate to support Bernie Sanders’ amendment to the NDAA requiring transparency on the humanitarian impact of severe Israeli restrictions on Gaza. TheContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece at Medium, I argue that progressives are making a mistake by permitting the conservative Democrats to dictate the contents of the so-called “Build Back Better” bill. I make the case that political pragmatism dictates that progressives stand much firmer on the contents of the bill andContinue Reading
Advertisements There is a promising bill in the House of Representatives, brought by Betty McCollum of Minnesota, that would *gasp* require that Israel obey U.S. law in its use of U.S. military aid. [A bill which counts ReThinking Foreign Policy among its supporting organizations] While the political power to seeContinue Reading
Advertisements Many people celebrated the defeat of Eliot Engel by progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman in the New York primary. That seat hasn’t been held by a Republican since 1949, so the primary is effectively the election. Bowman’s victory was a political earthquake in many ways, but one of the mostContinue Reading
Advertisements Five prominent Jewish, pro-Israel groups sent a letter earlier this week to House Democrats with a list of principles they hoped would guide the leadership in selecting a new chairperson for the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC). The current chair, Eliot Engel, lost his congressional seat to newcomer progressive,Continue Reading
