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President Trump: We Israelis are begging you to stop interfering in our elections
As Israelis prepare to go to the polls for a third time in a year, it’s time for us to focus on bread and butter issues like healthcare, education and the non-existent peace process with our Palestinian neighbors. Instead, we’re focused on the current U.S. administration carrying out current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal pursuits:…
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Opinion A fight over Jewish identity is going to determine America’s future
Two Jews, one Oval Office: The plot is wild, too weird for even Roth or Bellow. And yet, as the Democratic primary revs into chaotic high gear, polling is increasingly presenting American Democrats with two septuagenarian Jews, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, facing off for the right to…
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Opinion Bloomberg is the Democrats’ Trump
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has ridden a polling upswing and winning the most votes in Iowa and New Hampshire to a tenuous but undeniable status as the Democrats’ 2020 front-runner. In response to Sanders’ rise, party leaders and media figures have expressed dread at the prospect of being led by a democratic socialist who has…
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Opinion Why black voters are turning to Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg has become a top presidential candidate in the Democratic primary seemingly overnight. He’s spent over $300 million on ads across the country, and he’s been able to pay his campaign staff more than double the going rate of competing campaigns. But while money certainly doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t tell the entire story of…
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Opinion How support for Israeli settlements is marginalizing America – and helping Palestinians
Wednesday’s publication of a U.N. database of companies doing business in Israeli settlements in the West Bank signals the growing chasm between US policy toward Israel/Palestine and that of nearly everyone else. But far from undermining the database, forceful American opposition to its publication is likely to further delegitimize American Mideast policy and expand the…
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Opinion Democrats should go to AIPAC – and speak truth to power
Last Thursday, in response to a question at a televised town hall, Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she would not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference, scheduled to take place at the beginning of March. Will presidential candidates attend AIPAC’s annual conference in March? Sen. Elizabeth Warren said during…
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Opinion Israel calls all Palestinian resistance ‘terrorism’. That’s not just racist – it’s dangerous.
On Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a list of companies with ties to the settlements. We knew we didn’t have to wait long to hear the list besmirched with that go-to word when it comes to any form of Palestinian resistance, however nonviolent: terrorism. We Palestinians are used to being…
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Opinion Trump just committed the worst assault on democracy of his presidency
Just as the “perfect” phone call came the very day after the release of the Mueller report, President Trump followed up his Senate acquittal with another invitation to worry over the future of the Republic. Don’t let impeachment fatigue or images of lawyers pushing papers fool you: The uproar at the Justice Department is a…
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Opinion How an anti-Semitic staple about Jewish power captured the left
In two weeks, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee will host its annual confab, the AIPAC Policy Conference. As one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying organizations in the United States, surpassed only by Christians United for Israel, AIPAC often works as a stand-in for perceptions of American Jewish power. In the decade that I worked…
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Opinion George Steiner’s profound criticism of Zionism will haunt us forever
Last week, on February 3, George Steiner, literary critic, author, and philosopher passed away at the age of 90. While Steiner will undoubtedly be remembered internationally for a whole array of achievements, in my own mind, Steiner will live on forever as the man who posed the greatest and most profound critique of Zionism. Steiner’s…
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Opinion Letter | Sanders ignores anti-Semitism for his own political ambition
Dear Editor: I have read Joel Swanson’s recent pieces in the Forward speculating why he thinks Sen. Bernie Sanders scares the beejesus out of American Jews. Until now, I only knew Swanson as a scholar of modern Jewish intellectual history, especially of a fine analysis of Bernard Lazare, who made the transition from what might…
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