By Philip Weiss Mondoweiss A new Pew Research Center poll from January 4-9 of American views on foreign policy shows that Democratic Party sympathies for Israel are crashing, down ten points in the last 9 months, from 43 percent to 33 percent. That’s a 23 percent crash. If this was the stock market, Israel would … Continued
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands next to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump during their meeting in New York on Sept. 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office/Reuters) By Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post In his last meaningful act as America’s top diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry will go to Paris for an international conference on Sunday … Continued
By Johnathan Lis Haaretz The Knesset Interior Committee on Wednesday initially approved a bill that would bar the issuing of entry visas or residency permits in Israel to foreign citizens who call for a boycott of Israel or the settlements. Entry would be barred in two cases, the first being if the foreign citizen knowingly … Continued
By Brendan Gauthier Salon.com The Obama administration’s recent less-than-entirely-submissive relationship with Israel may have cost the outgoing president a free locker at a swanky Maryland country club. The U.S. delegation’s abstention in a U.N. vote to halt Israeli settlements in the West Bank last month effectively ruined Obama’s chance of taking advantage of what was originally intended to be a “back-door thing … Continued
By Philip Weiss Mondoweiss Donald Trump has now named his son-in-law Jared Kushner as a senior adviser, notably on Middle East/Israel issues, and as Kushner fired me ten years ago over these issues, it seemed a good time to review my memories of our (limited) interactions and do what journalists do, make a prognosis about … Continued
By Hannah Parry Daily Mail Meryl Streep has been accused of being ‘anti-Israel’ after she said Natalie Portman was from Jerusalem at the Golden Globes. Streep, who was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award on Sunday, had launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump in front of a room of stunned Hollywood stars. … Continued
By Rateb Y. Rabie, KCHS, and Saliba Sarsar, Ph.D. The Holy Christian Ecumenical Foundation A flurry of major diplomatic activities and declarations relating to Palestine and Israel is surrounding the transition in the United States from the Obama Administration to the Trump Administration. It seems that relevant parties are trying to catch up with what they … Continued
By Amira Hass Haaretz Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to settlers from the unauthorized outpost of Amona to enforce the law “equally” by demolishing the homes of Arabs is being strictly fulfilled. The number of Palestinian buildings demolished in the first week of January 2017 is almost four times as high as the weekly average for … Continued
Israeli forces use a Caterpillar vehicle to destroy a Palestinian home in occupied east Jerusalem, May 2013. Nora Barrows-FriedmanThe Electronic Intifada The city of Portland, Oregon, has voted to temporarily halt its investments in all corporate securities after a broad coalition of activists urged the city to drop financial relationships with companies involved in human rights violations. … Continued
By Ramzy Baroud Middle East Monitor Israel is dizzy. January 20th has been like another Christmas Day and Donald Trump is jolly old Santa Claus bearing gifts. The writing is already on the wall as President-elect Trump has appointed an extremist, David Friedman, as the next US Ambassador to Israel who intends to relocate the … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer An Israeli Army sergeant, Elor Azaria, was convicted of manslaughter on Wednesday for the murder of an unarmed and wounded Palestinian assailant in Hebron. Israeli soldiers are usually acquitted of such charges, but Azaria, who was 19 at the time, was found guilty of murdering Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif through a shot … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer The first substantive resolutions introduced in Congress this year were about helping Israel – not Americans. The 115th session of Congress began this week and to almost no one’s surprise, the legislative focus was on Israeli needs above those of taxpaying Americans. Congress displayed stronger acts of loyalty to the state … Continued
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