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Alex Joffe

Alex Joffe is a Shillman-Ingerman Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a senior non-resident scholar at the BESA Center.

From left: Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). Source: Screenshot.

Gaza and the war between the Democrats

Facile perceptions are thus being forced into narratives of Israel and the Palestinians: white versus black, winners versus losers, powerful versus the powerless.

May 18, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Aug. 11, 2021 that compensation for new restitution claims in Poland should not be closed off. Source: Screenshot.

The two faces of American foreign policy

The ongoing crisis in American culture has brought two seemingly unrelated trends to the forefront.

May 4, 2021

Joe Biden and Barack Obama in Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008, right after Biden was introduced by Obama as his running mate. Credit: Daniel Schwen via Wikimedia Commons.

Biden’s foreign policy: A preliminary assessment

Everything old is new again; U.S. allies must prepare for a period of American weakness and possibly even betrayal.

February 4, 2021

Joe Biden and Barack Obama in Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008, right after Biden was introduced by Obama as his running mate. Credit: Daniel Schwen via Wikimedia Commons.

The swamp returns to Washington

The incoming administration's appointments and statements indicate a return to the process-laden policies of the past that is unlikely to be adequate to confront rogue states like China and Iran.

January 5, 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Cristian L. Ricardo via Wikimedia Commons.

The US election: Preliminary lessons for America’s allies

What would the re-establishment of these “norms” by Obama-era experts mean, particularly in a world reorganized by Trump, the coronavirus pandemic and China?

November 16, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Cristian L. Ricardo via Wikimedia Commons.

US foreign policy on the verge of the election

With the U.S. presidential election rapidly approaching, an assessment of US foreign policy is in order.

September 7, 2020

U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Sept. 30, 2016. Photo: Emil Salman/POOL.

Israeli sovereignty and its unlikely benefactors

Barack Obama may turn out to be an unintended godfather of Israel’s sovereignty bid.

July 14, 2020

Cityscape of Brookyn, N.Y. Credit: Pixabay.

After New York …

People and power are moving out of New York at an increasing rate. What are the implications for the United States, the world order and the global Jewish community?

June 4, 2020

A replica of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in the world to be put into outer space. The replica is stored in the National Air and Space Museum. Credit: NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Coronavirus: A Sputnik moment for science education

Like the Sputnik satellite launch in 1957, the pandemic represents a chance to transform science and technology, though powerful institutional and cultural forces are working against such a goal.

April 23, 2020