It was a great year for AIPAC — but it was not AIPAC’s year. President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and promised to relocate the United States embassy. He also said he would review the Iranian nuclear deal and threatened to have America withdraw unless it’s amended. Those moves checked at least…
Congressional Hanukkah receptions are a long-standing tradition. In recent years, they were organized by Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. This year, in stark contrast to everything else coming out of Capitol Hill, Wasserman Schultz is joining forces with a Republican, Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York, to co-host the annual reception, scheduled for December…
American supporters of Israel struggled to strike a balance between elation at the possibilities under President Donald Trump and worry over support for Israel becoming a partisan issue at the first AIPAC conference since the election. “Americans across the country are retreating to ideological corners,” said Lillian Pinkus, president of the American Israel Public Affairs…
In a rare bipartisan move, 97 senators signed a letter to the Trump administration asking that the White House and executive agencies coordinate to contain the damage from a wave of threats against Jewish community centers and prevent new ones. “We are concerned that the number of incidents is accelerating and failure to address and…
It was supposed to serve as the ultimate proof that the love of Israel can bridge even the deepest political divide. It included Sheldon Adelson, the Republican Party’s mega-funder and, in some eyes, its kingmaker, and Haim Saban, a close ally and top donor of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joining forces and putting…
A call on political parties in Ukraine to refrain from anti-Semitism was part of a resolution by the Senate expressing its support for Ukrainians seeking a closer alignment with the European Union. The resolution, introduced Dec. 13 by a bipartisan slate of senators — Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Jeanne Shaheen (R-N.H.) and Dick…
One Jewish Democrat’s attempt to reach across the aisle is now coming back to haunt him, as political rivals cite Senator Ron Wyden’s work with Paul Ryan as a sign of bipartisan endorsement for the new Republican vice presidential candidate’s ideas. Wyden, Oregon’s senior senator, is a liberal known to break party ranks for causes…
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