Richard M. Goldwasser
By Richard M. Goldwasser
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Opinion AIPAC Took 41 Democrats To Israel – And They Applauded Netanyahu
Forty-one Democratic House members were in Israel last week on a trip led by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, working hard to highlight their unified support for their host country. Rejecting ongoing Republican attacks accusing Democrats of being insufficiently pro-Israel, Hoyer said: “The central reality is that there is extraordinary unity on issues that Israel is…
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Opinion Can J Street Bring Down The Trump-Netanyahu Axis?
For many months now, progressive American Jews and their Israeli counterparts have been watching as our two countries careen down parallel tracks of illiberal democracy at break-neck speed. The political situations play out like competing versions of the television series Homeland and Hatufim, one in English, the other in Hebrew, but in real life and…
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