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Alex Joffe

Alex Joffe is the director of strategic initiatives for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).

The responses of the American foreign-policy apparatus and its media enablers to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani give us a glimpse into U.S. policy under a future Democratic administration.
The greatest lesson of the British experience for American Jews and for Israel is to avoid complacency.
The U.S. withdrawal from Syria has produced chaotic results, but as is often the case with Trump’s presidency, also inadvertent moments of clarity.
Anti-Semitism, in part through BDS-fueled antipathy towards Israel, is becoming a signal of middle-class respectability.
Interest in BDS seems to correlate with post-Christian contexts in which Jews are relatively absent or with “white” class anxiety emanating from academia.
Some last-minute suggestions before the release of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan.
The short-term effects are already clear, including legitimization of the worldview in which “the Jews” are central, and where their loyalties and “influence” are legitimate topics for debate, along with a reassessment of U.S. policy towards Israel.
The February 2019 Warsaw Summit, which saw Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take his seat beside Arab leaders, was a turning point that signaled the ebbing fortunes of the Palestinian cause.
The post-modern myth places contemporary Israel at the center of all issues spread “intersectionally,” from the campus to broader politics, reaching everything from K-12 curriculums to city council meetings.
The Trump administration’s transactional doctrine appears to be based on Donald Trump’s personality and experiences, not on abstract theory about the behavior of states.