Posts Tagged: Trump
Israeli UN Envoy Downplays White House Rebuke on Settlements
JNS.org -- Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has downplayed the Trump administration's recent criticism of new Israeli settlement construction. Danon told Israel Radio on Friday morning...
Trump’s Immigration Edict Obscures a Larger Issue
"In order to protect Americans, the United States must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward it and its...
Beinart Savages Kushner on Refugees But Gives Obama a Pass
Peter Beinart -- who will be visiting our Manhattan townhouse this coming Tuesday for a discussion and debate with me and Bret Stephens of the Wall Street...
Cambridge University Student Newspaper Slammed by Jewish Groups for Publishing ‘Antisemitic’ Profile of Jared Kushner
Jewish groups have sharply rebuked Cambridge University's independent student newspaper for publishing an opinion piece about Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law and senior adviser, which "explicitly contains antisemitic...
Alan Dershowitz: Is Sally Yates a Hero or a Villain?
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired by President Donald Trump because she instructed the Justice Department lawyers not to defend Trump’s executive order regarding...
Amid Trump Turmoil, the New York Times Insists That World Focus Is on Israeli Settlements
“The whole world is watching” is a phrase that has been chanted by protesters since at least the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Now, the...
Donald Trump’s Moral Harm
During President Trump’s first full week in office, he began to dismantle America’s moral standing on the international stage. From his reconsideration of CIA "black...
Simple, Effective Measures the Trump Administration Can Take to Confront Palestinian Terror Glorification
When a new administration comes into office, it can have rapid success with a few simple measures -- and the Trump administration could do a lot...
New US Envoy to UN: ‘For Those That Don’t Have Our Back, We’re Taking Names’
New U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley in her first visit to the United Nations put U.S. allies on notice: "For those that don’t have our back,...
The ‘Optics’ of Dead Jews
Columnist Peter Beinart warned this week that "unless they change course, [US President] Donald Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu are going to get...
Now That Trump Is in the White House, Can Israel Seize the Moment?
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound...
Trump Prepares Order to Slash US Funding for International Bodies That Give Palestinian Authority, PLO Full Membership
The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States’ role in the United Nations and other...
Palestinian, Jordanian Leaders Meet to Discuss Thwarting Potential Relocation of US Embassy to Jerusalem
JNS.org -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan met Sunday in Amman, the Jordanian capital, to discuss the potential relocation of the US...
Relocating the US Embassy in Israel: Better Late Than Never
President Donald Trump made a campaign promise to “move the American embassy to Jerusalem – to the eternal capital of the Jewish people.” Amid the media...
