Posts Tagged: Democrats Israel
The American Public and Israel in the 21st Century
Supportive public opinion has been a key factor in the formation and development of the US-Israel “special relationship.” This monograph presents and analyzes long-term trends...
A Message to Our Leaders: Stop Politicizing Jewish Issues
With the Democratic and Republican Party conventions now behind us, I took some time to reflect on a concern that has been ailing the American...
During Election Season, the Jewish Community Must Prioritize Addressing Campus Antisemitism
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel “is essentially a domestic form of antisemitism that attacks local Jews through the demonizing of the...
Ideologues, From Both Right and Left, Are Poisoning America and Abetting Antisemitism
One of the greatest challenges facing Jews today is dealing with the fact that even lethal antisemitism is not being addressed properly by our own...
Democrats for Palestine?
While teaching seminars on the history of Israel, I was occasionally asked about a president’s evident discomfort with the Jewish state. Jimmy Carter was a...
New US Policy on Settlements Won’t Worsen Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - The letter from 107 Democratic members of Congress declaring that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and much of Jerusalem, are illegal is...
The Democratic Party Faces a Choice on Israel
A few years ago, it would have been unimaginable: the Democratic Party, the party supported by the overwhelming majority of American Jews and with a...
The Democrats Don’t Have to Go the Way of Labour
JNS.org - The upcoming general election being held in the UK on December 12 isn’t getting much coverage in the United States. Americans generally don’t...
Can Joe Biden Save the Day for Pro-Israel Democrats?
JNS.org - After a week in which attacks on Israel by Democratic presidential candidates dominated discussion at the J Street conference, Joe Biden finally gave...
The American Left Is Not Truly Pro-Palestinian
JNS.org - As Israel headed into its second set of elections this year, the latest talking point of the American anti-Israel left was Benjamin Netanayahu’s...
Is Donald Trump Harming Israel?
Many of Donald Trump's Jewish supporters are willing to overlook his flaws and failings, partly because they think he is "good for Israel." Moving the...
40 Pro-Israel Democrats Just Visited the Jewish State
JNS.org - Americans spend a lot of time complaining about Congress. They complain that nothing gets done, and they carp that its members spend too...
A Liberal Jewish Writer Takes Down the Anti-Zionist Left
NYU journalism professor Susie Linfield’s provocative book, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (Yale University Press, 2019), features...
I Am a Liberal — Are You?
I am a liberal. And I’m here to take back the word from those who have hijacked it for their illiberal agendas. I am a liberal. Which means...
