Advertisements Democratic leadership committed a political blunder by trying to sneak an additional $1 billion in funding for Israel (on top of the $3.8 they get annually already) into a bill to raise the debt ceiling. This was funding that was guaranteed to pass in the NDAA bill, so itContinue 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 ReThinking Foreign Policy is proud to announce its support of Betty McCollum’s historic legislation, the Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act. The legislation, which is endorsed by more than 70 organizations and is co-sponsored by 13 other members of theContinue Reading
Advertisements In the latest ReThinking Foreign Policy podcast, I look at the potential responses of both Donald Trump and Republican leaders to an electoral loss. They’re not the same. I also revisit the AOC-Yitzhak Rabin controversy I discussed in the previous podcast, because the attacks on AOC are not stopping. TheContinue Reading
Advertisements Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to set off a firestorm every time she goes near the issue of Israel-Palestine. It happened again last week. AOC had agreed to speak at an event hosted by Americans for Peace Now commemorating 25 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. AfterContinue Reading
