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Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…ge, alter the tone and content of the conference and, more broadly, the US-Israel relationship. One event involves the highly publicized US-Israel disagreement over settlements that simmered to the surface during Vice President Joe Biden’s recent trip to Israel. The other—less publicized but far more consequential—centers on a top military commander’s recognition of the negative impact that Israel’s behavior is having on US credibility in the regi…

Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…the Gaza Flotilla disaster (it was a disaster any way you look at it, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine), Israel was engaged in a fight it has not known for some time: international condemnation and a US administration that was tepidly protecting it, albeit without the reflexive muscle it once did in the Bush years. Even the staunchly pro-Israel New York Jewish Week (the largest Jewish weekly in the United States) could not bring itself to fully justify…

Liberals Agree, Israel is Greatest Thing Since Sliced Challah

By Shalom Goldman

…feels compelled to begin his review of Gershom Gorenberg’s The Unmaking of Israel in last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review section with this list of “the many things… Israel is not.” He does so, he writes, “in recognition of the fact that mere mention of Israel can send its critics into paroxysms of rhetorical excess seldom heard outside ESPN.” One wonders why there’s no mention of the paroxysms of rhetorical excess voiced by Israel’s apologist…

For Many Christian Zionists, Israeli Protesters are a Threat to God’s Plan

By Aidan Orly

…” In addition to being an antisemitic trope, the idea that a group of liberal elite power players is orchestrating mass protests against authoritarian power grabs—or in favor of LGBTQ rights, racial equality or other progressive causes around the world—has become a main far-right talking point according to expert Ben Lorber, my colleague at Political Research Associates.* Many far-right pundits have attributed blame to these same forces for, among…

‘Anti-Zionism = Antisemitism’ isn’t Just Wrong, It’s the Problem

By Shaul Magid

…s to weaponize it in order to fend off justified criticism of the state of Israel, whether you agree with it or not. Let’s be honest, for anyone with basic liberal values, even if you are a Zionist, the state of Israel is presently very problematic (as the Israeli protests have shown—to say nothing of the occupation) and thus many of the criticisms are not prejudicial by definition. Some Jewish anti-Zionists argue that the nation-state is not the…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…the country’s already liberal abortion laws. But according to the Times of Israel, the change has barely caused a blip. The paper reports: Israel has always had a liberal stance on abortion, allowing women facing medical emergencies or those who are victims of rape or abuse to receive subsidies to help them terminate their pregnancies. Outside of those regulations, women can apply for abortions for reasons ranging from an emotional or mental threa…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…Education in Israel Could Vanish.” The reason? “Funding discrimination” by Israel’s Ministry of Education: The ministry provides 100 percent funding for 200,000 ultra-Orthodox students in religious, nonpublic schools. Israeli Christians believe this is unfair treatment since Israeli national law prohibits discrimination in education. “In a challenging time like this for Christians in the whole Middle East, we expect Israel to deal with this identi…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…titled a “law for the advancement and protection of written journalism in Israel” passed a preliminary hurdle in the Knesset today. Although it doesn’t say so explicitly, the bill is aimed at limiting the free distribution of Israel Hayom (Israel Today), the free newspaper owned by American casino magnate and Republican super-funder Sheldon Adelson. The same Sheldon Adelson who, at the inaugural meeting of the Israeli American Council in Washingt…

Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…entity becomes synonymous with Jewishness, and therefore the attack on Israel/Israelis is, categorically, an attack on Jews, which reinforces the notion that Israel is the center of the Jewish people. On October 25th, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law demanded that universities investigate Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) over their alleged support for Hamas and antisemitism at ceas…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…their voting-age population voted for the political wing of Hamas in national elections eight years ago, “you forfeit your right to be called civilians… you have wittingly made yourself targets.” On Monday, the president of the New York Board of Rabbis, David-Seth Kirshner made this same assertion at a pro-Israel rally of 10,000 people a few blocks from the UN (which had just issued a statement expressing concern over “the deteriorating situation)…