Advertisements Tom Friedman is back, at least for a minute. He stirred up a bit of a fuss last week when he wrote that the US was beginning a “reassessment” of its relationship with Israel due to the current government’s excesses. Well, it wasn’t necessarily so, but the fact thatContinue Reading
Advertisements It was easy to miss, but Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid was in the U.S. last week, visiting with American Jewish leaders and a couple of members of Congress. Lapid is himself not in a great political position right now as the notable plummet Benjamin Netanyahu has taken inContinue 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 In Haaretz today, we find an article headlined, in part, with a quote from an anonymous “leading official in a major liberal pro-Israel organization” calling pro-Palestinian objections to the recent solidarity delegation of Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi to Israel a “crazy backlash.” The full quote: “You can disagree withContinue 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
