Posts Tagged: Donald Trump
Trump Adviser Meets with Israeli, Palestinian Leaders Amid Push for Peace
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, for more than five hours in Jerusalem...
Congress, Jewish Groups Oppose Trump’s Plan to Axe Antisemitism Envoy
JNS.org - Recent reports have indicated that the Trump administration’s planned budget cuts could lead to the demise of the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat...
Ivanka Trump Bakes Traditional Purim Hamentashen With Her Kids Ahead of Jewish Festival
Ahead of Purim, Ivanka Trump shared a photo on Instagram of her family baking hamentashen – triangular cookies traditionally eaten on the Jewish holiday. The daughter...
New York Times Again Inaccurately Blames Israel for ‘Toxic’ Relations With Obama
President Obama may be out of office, but the New York Times is nonetheless ramping up its efforts to revise the history of his relations...
Senate Committee Backs Friedman as Israel Envoy Amid Debate in the Jewish World
JNS.org - On Thursday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved President Trump’s designated ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, following a groundswell of support from conservative and...
Trumpism and Antisemitism
The United States is witnessing a disturbing rise in antisemitic acts. In St. Louis, more than 100 tombstones were tipped over; similar hate crimes have taken...
Where’s the Concern for Muslims Killed by Muslims?
For the past several weeks, major media outlets and liberals have been outraged by the Trump administration policy of singling out immigrants from seven Muslim countries...
Donald Trump and the Antisemitism Smear
Let’s cut through all the clutter and get straight to the main issues surrounding Donald Trump and the allegations of antisemitism. Firstly, to suggest that President...
Difficult Questions and Contested Answers on Antisemitism
JNS.org - In his magnum opus A Lethal Obsession, the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of antisemitism at...
Media and Politicians Overhype Chances of Israeli-Arab Regional Deal, Experts Say
JNS.org - According to experts, the chances of a formal peace agreement between Israel and the wider Arab world in the near future are slim --...
It’s Time to Sack the ‘Two-State Solution’
“The president is committed to peace…. That’s as far as I want to go on that,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on February 3, when...
A ‘One State Solution’ Will Not Work
It is always gratifying to see warmth and friendship on display between an American president and an Israeli prime minister. That was certainly the case...
Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Shatters ‘Palestine First’ Worldview
JNS.org - The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed that the two-state solution -- whereby an independent,...
Trump and Truman: Straight-Talking Presidents
The American press has been shocked by the foul-mouthed antics of a president attacking journalists who insulted his daughter. Typical Trump, right? No, typical Truman -- Harry S. Truman. President...
