South Carolina’s population of some 5 million people is only about .3% Jewish. Yet the biggest player on behalf of the incumbent in its Senate race — the most expensive in the country — is the Republican Jewish Coalition. That race is also a big priority for J Street, the progressive Israel advocacy organization. “This…
A one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “dangerous” and “crazy,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday in Jerusalem, according to The Jerusalem Post. Graham, a top ally of President Trump in the Senate and a leading Republican voice on foreign policy, said that a two-state solution, which would create an independent Palestinian state, was…
Sen. Lindsey Graham clapped back at New York Democratic Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday, after she compared members of the migrant caravan trying to enter the United States to Jews fleeing Germany during the Holocaust. In a tweet Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez cited Nazi Germany, along with other refugee crises, as an example of how “asking to…
When an activist attending the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh approached Sen. Lindsey Graham with her own story of sexual assault during a recess, he reportedly waved her off. “Senator Graham, I was raped 13 years ago,” Robyn Swerling told Graham, according to CNN. “I’m so sorry,” Graham…
Sen. Lindsay Graham dismissed the accusation of Julie Swetnick against Brett Kavanaugh even as fellow victim Christine Blasey Ford kept the nation rapt with her story of being assualted. Graham dismissed Swetnick as “some woman” during a brief interview in a hallway. “I don’t believe it,” Graham told reporters during a break in Blasey Ford’s…
On the way to a Senate vote yesterday, Lindsey Graham stopped a group of Hasidic Jews to compliment their hats. What ensued was a general swapping of fedoras, to judge by a photo that Graham’s Senate colleague Ben Sasse posted on Twitter. On the subway to the vote, Lindsey literally struck up the conversation with…
Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican from South Carolina who hopes to win the White House in 2016, made headlines this week when an AIPAC dinner in Boston, “Everything that starts with ‘Al’ in the Middle East is bad news.” The senator then gave some examples: “Al-Qaida, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula.” It was a…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s round-robin tour of America’s Sunday interview shows — hitting NBC, ABC and CNN on a single morning — was a master stroke by Israel’s much-maligned public diplomacy operation. If any news consumer was still wondering on Saturday night where Israel’s elected government stands on the Iran nuclear framework agreement, that was cleared up…
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