For the first time, significant cohorts of Americans offer more support for Palestinians than Israelis. This marks a radical shift from decades of polling showing Americans from both parties and all age groups overwhelmingly supported Israelis over Palestinians. Young people (age 18-29) support Palestinians 61-56%. The gap between Palestinians and Israelis among liberal Democrats is […]
Biden in Israel: Unforced Errors Attacks Democratic critics of Israel, calling them "few," while rejecting apartheid label
Joe Biden has completed the Israel leg of his Middle East coming-out party. Even before he left the US, critics lambasted him for tone-deafness in meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ordered the murder of journalist, Jamal Khasoggi. The shameful transparency of the visit’s purpose–to lobby his government to increase oil production, in […]
Aipac Astroturf Groups Plow $30-Million into Defeating Progressive Democrats Democratic Majority for Israel and United Democracy Project sow division in Democratic Party
America’s most powerful lobby, Aipac, had a problem. While it prided itself on being a bipartisan group, whose ardent support for Israel transcended Party, it really wasn’t that at all. Its major donors and most of its members were Republican. In fact, those donors overwhelmingly supported Republican Senate and House candidates. Forty of the GOP […]
Iron Dome Vote Rammed Down Throats of House Democrats After Pressure from Israeli Foreign Minister
It remains something of a mystery to me why Alexandria Ocasio Cortez changed her vote on $1-billion Iron Dome funding from No to Present at the last minute (only nine stalwart members bucked the tide to vote No). Even after reading her message to constituents apologizing for it, I remain confused. She does, in this […]