By David Isaac
Amana's violent settler activities include establishing communities, recruiting new families and building homes. It has been in the sights of activists opposed to Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria for some time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The congresswoman accused the president of protecting Israeli officials from the International Criminal Court.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The signatories asked for a classified briefing “to better understand how and when the aid that Congress has authorized and appropriated for Israel will be delivered.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli-American donor to the Democratic Party warned that the decision sends a negative signal to Middle East allies.
Sen. Chris Coons said the House must “promptly” pass the Senate foreign aid bill “to ensure that our Israeli allies have everything they need to defend themselves from attacks by Iran and its proxies.”
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito introduced legislation, because “Israel should have a seat at the table in decisions that are being made in the processes moving forward.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel,” said the official.
“This poll tells us very little about how N.Y. Jews will vote,” said Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel.
GOP leaders, who proposed stand-alone Israel funding, said the Senate bill is “dead on arrival,” for insufficiently addressing the immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Forty-eight of 100 lawmakers in the upper chamber joined the call.
“First Netanyahu fails Israel by basing a highly-inadequate portion of the IDF near Gaza in the months before Oct. 7. Then he ignores the warnings of Oct. 6. Then this,” wrote Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hakeem Jeffries “worked tirelessly to make sure Israel has the tools to defend itself,” said Democratic Majority for Israel CEO Mark Mellman.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Known as strong supporters of pro-Israel issues, Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Susan Wild edged out their Republican challengers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The lawmakers cited “ethnic-based discrimination” and racial profiling in a missive to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
And J Street blames AIPAC for using money against progressive candidates and receiving funding from major Republican donors.
By D.J. Kolpak
Robinson took the far-Left org JFREJ (Jews For Racial & Economic Justice) to task for pretending to represent mainstream Jewish interests, or even Jewish interests at all,
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A number of Democratic representatives have stated that they intend to act in the coming days and raise the issue with Biden in a number of ways, imploring him to reconsider the decision.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We condemn the disgraceful comments made by [Omar] in a CNN interview in which she accused her Jewish Congressional colleagues, along with the Jewish people as a whole, of not being committed to the pursuit of justice,” Conference of Presidents chair Dianne Lob, CEO William Daroff and vice chair Malcolm Hoenlein said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said a “strong U.S.-Israel relationship benefits both countries, is a core strategic asset for Israel, and requires a bipartisan approach, working with both Democrats and Republicans.”
By Sean Savage
In national press briefings and internationally, the United States has backed up a pledge to defend its ally. But that comes against pressure by progressive lawmakers and even some more moderate congress members who have issued statements that can be perceived as having moral equivalency between Israeli and Arab actions.
“The administration will be questioned or criticized by some Democrats on the Hill, but it will move forward just as in 2015, without regard to their worries," said Elliott Abrams, former U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela and Iran in the Trump administration
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Progressives don't like the IHRA definition because it correctly equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, sought to dispel the notion that they were objecting to the substance, saying “the measure was manipulated using anti-Semitism for political purposes.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We do not see how any of these acute risks serve the long-term interest of a strong, secure Israel,” say U.S. congressional members.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Democrats just gave a boost to the anti-Israel BDS movement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If the Democratic senators had the meeting, said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Grants of up to $100,000 each to nonprofits at risk of terrorist attacks can go towards improving building security by acquiring and installing items ranging from fences, lighting and video surveillance to metal detectors and blast-resistant doors, locks and windows.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We have a $38 billion commitment over 10 years for military aid to Israel,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who is the chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. “The Israelis need it for defense.”
The goal of BDS is to silence American Jews as a political force, and American Jews refuse to see what is happening to them while it is happening.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The concern we have is that some new Democrats are not favorable for Israel, and the hope is that they will be marginalized.
By JNi.Media
Starting in 2015 in the US, in 2016 in Australia, and in August 2017 in Canada, NGOs led by Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-P) have been conducting a campaign under the label of “No Way to Treat a Child.”
Doubtless what moved the Democrats was the revelation that intelligence officials reported the antifa threat to the Obama administration some time ago with apparently no response from the president or any key aides.
“We’re here because the United States and Israel are partners for peace and partners for security."
Friedman: As Ambassador I will represent this administration's policies not my own; and I will welcome all Americans, of every political view, when they visit Israel.
By JNi.Media
The Pew survey finds that the American public has a positive opinion of the United Nations, although there, too, the gap is wide between the two parties.
So when we hear Democrats wail over alleged outsider attempts to influence the presidential election, it’s important to maintain some perspective and recognize it as their latest attempt to chip away at the president-elect’s legitimacy.
By JNi.Media
In August 1991, during the Crown Heights pogrom, Sharpton led a march of some 400 Blacks in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.
By Jeff Dunetz
The ADL is nothing but a tool for the progressive movement. If you wish to donate to the progressive movement that’s OK, but if you want to donate to a Jewish Organization I suggest you avoid the ADL
Ellison trafficked with incredibly virulent, open anti-Semites supporting and defending them until it became politically inconvenient, then lied about it, once in office he started targeting Israel
Democrats not only got trounced but are screaming from the rafters about racism and white supremacy. They even have the chutzpah to whine about alleged anti-Semitism of conservatives and Republicans.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some pro-Israel activists recall, with dismay, Ellison's efforts to unseat a pro-Israel New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman, in 2012.
By Noah Rothman
For the offense of notifying Congress of the discovery of new evidence in the Clinton email scandal, Democrats have attacked the FBI director’s credibility, in some cases demanding Comey's resignation
By JNi.Media
Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.
By JNi.Media
Congressman Jerry Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat whose 10th Congressional District actually includes Ground Zero, was adamant in attacking the president's arguments.
By JNi.Media
The SPD is expected to form a new regional coalition government with the Left and the Greens, who suffered a 2.5% drop to 15.1%.
She repeatedly condemned the growth of Jewish settlements over the green line, at one point calling for “a stop to settlements – not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.”
Cardin and Schumer called on their colleagues in both chambers to quickly advance the legislation when Congress reconvenes in September.
The Democrats have just chosen American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee director James Zogby, one of the most vocal defenders of a notorious Palestinian terrorist, to help write their platform.
By Jeff Dunetz
Anecdotally it’s been easy to say for a very long time that the more liberal politically one is the less they support the Jewish State of Israel. Here's proof...
By Sean Savage
“I doubt the level of hostility [in America] will reach the levels we see in Europe,” said Brandeis’s Sasson.
By Batya Medad
Just because Dems recite like a mantra over and over that they love Israel and are pro-Israel means nothing. It's just words!
This form of preachiness is unknown in the ordinary interactions of nations but has become quite de rigueur when American officials come down hard on their Israeli counterparts.
A new poll shows a majority of New York Jews view Clinton as unfavorable. Biden catching up.
Like most of the other Democrats supporting Obama, the deal worries her, but she thinks it is good for the US and for Israel.
President Obama has not responded to the tweets.
By JNi.Media
There are 188 Democrats in the House and 44 in the Senate, and over the next two months millions of dollars and unprecedented lobbying efforts will be invested in courting their votes on the Iran nuclear deal.
Hillary has become a magnet for bad news, but it will take a lot more to beat her.
Support for Obama from religious Jews is only 34 percent. Next year in New Hampshire?
By J. E. Dyer
The Senate formed a bipartisan panel investigating money from the Obama adm. to an anti-Bibi group
Democrats did not sponsor but also did not try to block the resolution.
A large plurality disapproves of the Congressional invitation to Netanyahu, but a majority thinks Obama should meet with him.
Slowly but surely, the truth wins, which is why Obama is losing.
By Shalom Bear
Soros's organizations are quietly trying to influence politics. While Adelson does his influencing openly. Why is only Sheldon attacked?
By JTA
Jewish Democrats called on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Monday to apologize for warning that the failure to achieve a two-state solution could lead to apartheid. “We express our deep disappointment that the Secretary of State has chosen to invoke the specter of ‘apartheid’ in discussing his concerns about the failing peace process,” the […]
By JTA
Robert Strauss, the son of small-town Texas shopkeepers who became an adviser to presidents of both parties, died Wednesday at the age of 95. He helped found in 1945 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, the energy law firm that pioneered powerhouse lobbying after its 1971 move to Washington. Strauss, whose parents ran a general […]
“Pro-Israel” Debbie Wasserman Schultz reportedly has turned her back on Israel and many Florida Jews by blocking the bi-partisan proposal to hit Iran with more sanctions.
By J. E. Dyer
There may no longer be a unifying “center” to hold the GOP together.
Hillary Clinton, an undeclared candidate for the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, has told Human Abedin to ditch Anthony Weiner if she wants to advise her former boss at the State Dept., The New York Post reported Monday. The ultimatum has been given before but has greater meaning following Weiner’s embarrassingly poor finish in […]
Anthony Weiner’s aide has confirmed that the newest mayoral candidate will attend The Jewish Press’s mayoral forum, making it one of his first public forums. The Jewish Press newspaper, the largest independent Jewish weekly in America, will be hosting a mayoral forum for the Jewish community, featuring the Democratic candidates for mayor of New York […]
Welcome to Obamaland, where death and taxes is no longer an ironic statement, but a grim reality.
To assume that your opponents have any decency, as the Republicans habitually do, is to be left behind in Politics 1.0.
The media loved Obama, but it discovered early on that he did not love it back.
The progressive consolidation imagines that organization can contain the messier side of man.
The left understands that it is working against natural emotions of loyalty and loss, and so it uses deception.
Are we on an inevitable evolutionary trajectory rising up or are we doomed to repeat dark ages, progress and then dark ages again?
By J. E. Dyer
It is unconscionable of Obama to handle the sequestration threat the way he has - crippling our ability to readily strike Iran.
The fault lies with both the executive and legislative branches of government. Neither wants to budge from their ideological positions.
In a world of cynics and naysayers, where too many people almost instinctively assume the worst of their fellow citizens, our generation was fortunate to have Ed Koch.
Republicans who try to adapt to liberal values are pursuing a dead end.
While the American Democratic Party may not have an official anthem, the British Labour Party does.
By Rafi Farber
Just about everything they both say is idiotic.
Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it are still with us today.
The glorious day of the inglorious man is here. And someone else is paying. Any someone else who isn't him.
Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.
Can American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years?
A senior member of President Harry Truman's own administration secretly gave American Zionist lobbyists advice in 1946 on how to pressure Truman to support creating a Jewish state.
Also missing is what had been a solid commitment to isolate Hamas. Instead, the only pre-conditions imposed are the same for all Arabs in the area - "we will insist that any Palestinian partner must recognize Israel's right to exist [not to exist as a Jewish State, just to exist], reject violence, and adhere to existing agreements." That's it. There have also been changes regarding Israel between the 2008 Republican Party Platform and the one just passed in Tampa at last week's Republican Party Convention - and those appear to be more favorable to Israel.
Independents – who are the most critical group for a November victory - voted for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in the recall election in higher-than-expected numbers. In 2008, they facilitated Obama’s victory by all-time-high turnout numbers.
By Barry Rubin
O’Donnell says that “liberal” should not be a dirty word but a badge of honor. I agree. It should be, but it has been tarnished far less by conservatives’ attacks than by radicals who have hijacked that word and use it for an agenda that is bankrupting the United States, reducing liberties, and making a mess of U.S. foreign policy.
In response to the question of whether they would back US military action if it meant an increase in gasoline prices, a majority -53%- still expressed support for military action, while 42% said they would not.