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Dan Schnur

Dan Schnur

Dan Schnur is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications.

The attitudes of U.S. voters toward Israel underscore the threat posed by two dangerous long-term political trends.
She feared that Roe v. Wade froze public opinion and balkanized the country.
Even setting aside the recent upheaval in the Israeli government, his time in Israel will be the least important part of the trip.
The once-robust relationship between American Jewish and black communities has gradually withered, but a new group hopes to change that.
The extremely tense relationships between U.S. and Saudi leaders were a relatively low-level concern until the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
From the beginning of the war, Israel’s leaders have been forced to navigate an extremely difficult path to avoid antagonizing Russia.
Many historical scholars believe that at least 80 percent of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt under Pharaoh’s rule did not leave.
There are many red lines in American politics, and requiring AIPAC to abandon its bipartisan approach over any given one could result in some sticky challenges.
It now looks as if Bennett has emerged as a key interlocutor with Putin, and may even end up playing a critical role in brokering a peace deal at some point.
For Biden to waver in the face of bullying similar to Putin’s elsewhere on the international stage could quickly undermine the cohesion of the U.S.-led alliance.
As the violence in Ukraine worsens, Israel now finds itself in a particularly troublesome position.
This week, the same Chinese leadership that is persecuting the Uyghurs is also hosting the Winter Olympic Games, providing an ideal opportunity for worldwide condemnation of the genocide.