Posts Tagged: Democrats Israel
Some Politicians Finally Find Their Voice on Fighting Antisemitism and Campus Hate
The calendar year ended with politicians holding conferences and making statements in opposition to antisemitism, as well as the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...
Anti-Israel Hate Spreads Beyond the College Campus in November
November’s BDS news was shaped by the results of the midterm elections that saw the Republicans take control of the House of Representatives while Democrats...
J Street’s Losing Strategy Is Neither Pro-Israel Nor Pro-Peace
Before losing a defining primary last week, J Street increased the volume of its rash, partisan attacks against AIPAC and the broader pro-Israel community --...
UK Paper Attacks Biden for Supporting Israel and Rejecting Lie of ‘Apartheid’
An analysis by The Independent’s senior US correspondent, Richard Hall, begins by recounting a speech made in the 1980s by then Senator Joe Biden denouncing...
Biden’s Visit Proves Israel Shouldn’t Become a ‘Republican’ Issue
If the unofficial motto of news editors and producers remains “if it bleeds, it leads,” it is no wonder that the visit of US President...
Anti-Israel Activists Try to Turn North Carolina Democrats Against Israel
On June 18, 2022, the North Carolina Democratic Party considered adopting three anti-Israel resolutions presented at their party convention in Durham. I interviewed a high ranking...
Why ‘Pro-Israel’ Is No Longer Enough
Speaking to a group at last month's Israeli conservatism conference, former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was asked how best to "sell Zionism" in...
Media Ignores Pro-BDS Congresswoman’s Checkered History on Israel
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D) is not the most high-profile of politicians. Serving as the representative for Minnesota’s 4th Congressional District since 2001, her political endeavors...
New Congressional Candidate Is Proudly Anti-Israel
Nida Allam, a 27-year-old progressive activist and Durham, North Carolina County Commissioner, announced last week that she will run for the Congressional seat of retiring...
Anti-Israel Activism Expands on Campus and Elsewhere
BDS activities in June were marked by continued condemnations of Israel from a variety of faculty and student groups, unions, and others. Overall more than...
A Response to ‘Rolling Stone’: Many Young Jews Like Me Support Israel
Marisa Kabas frames her May 21 “Cultural Commentary” for Rolling Stone by telling readers how torn she is about Israel as an American Jew. (...
BDS Seizes on Israel-Hamas Fighting to Demonize the Jewish State
The academic year has ended, but the events in Jerusalem and then Gaza have prompted a dramatic upswing of BDS activities in both higher education...
Keep Support for Israel Bipartisan by Talking to Both Parties
According to a March 2020 annual Gallup poll of country favorability, Israel benefits from a 74% favorability (90% of Republicans and 67% of Democrats), compared...
How to Keep Bipartisan Support for Israel Strong
Over the last year, much of the political rancor involving the US-Israel relationship was focused on the presidential race. Yet historiographical evidence reveals that Congress...
