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Most people don’t care that much about Israeli-Palestinian issues, so small groups of committed activists can exert a disproportionate influence on policy.
President Donald Trump’s address at the Israeli-American Council summit was an unmistakably positive event, even for those who dislike the president’s style. But you’d never know it based on how it was covered by most of the media.
Remarks by Dr. Miriam Adelson to the 2019 Israeli-American Council National Conference.
While a U.S. House critique of Trump’s Middle East policy doesn’t advance peace, it does point to where discussion about Israel may be heading inside the Democratic Party.
Impeachment fever may be “must-see TV,” but the optics seem terrible for Jews.
Faced with internecine strife and external pressure from the United States and Israel, Iranian honchos appear to be growing agitated.
It took time, but the Israelis have arrived in America. They have paid their due. And with the challenges that American Jewry and Israel now face, this burgeoning group may have emerged at exactly the right time.
Context matters. While talk of Jews and money can be dangerous, labeling Trump’s latest speech Jew-hatred is a partisan talking point, not community advocacy.
Barely a year can pass, it seems, without some episode or incident in France that compels its ancient Jewish community to wonder whether they have a future there at all.
Supporting Israel’s existence while being allied to those who wish to destroy it and engage in anti-Semitic invective doesn’t work.
Many think that anti-Semitism is a prejudice against Jews as people, whereas anti-Zionism and Israel-bashing are legitimate attacks on a political project.
The real dispute over the future of the alliance isn’t about Trump, but why Turkey remains inside the tent and the Jewish state remains on the outside looking in.