Advertisements In my latest piece for Mondoweiss, I look at the confluence of recent events at the United Nations and in the discourse around Israel and Palestine on Capitol Hill. Specifically, the speech of Yair Lapid at the UN General Assembly, supported explicitly by US President Joe Biden, and the horrificContinue Reading
Advertisements The most high-profile fight yet that AIPAC is trying to decide with its money is in Michigan, where two incumbents–progressive Andy Levin and conservative Haley Stevens–are facing off. AIPAC’s all-out assault on Levin–a self-declared Zionist and high-profile Jewish member of Congress–redraws the political map around Israel, especially in racesContinue Reading
Advertisements A Court of Appeals ruling has stated that boycotts are not protected speech. The case, as you might expect, involves the BDS movement calling for economic actions against Israel. But the ruling is a major threat to the First Amendment and the very concept of both free speech andContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Mondoweiss, I look at the possibility that J Street is moving to replace AIPAC as the dominant pro-Israel voice in the Democratic party. Despite the fact that the liberal Zionist group has some positions that are directly at odds with the Palestine solidarity movement andContinue Reading
Advertisements Last week, 57 Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding a joint State Department-FBI investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. That’s over a quarter of the House Democratic caucus. The list of signatories included some surprisingContinue Reading
