The Obama administration is using a time-tested pitch to get Congress to back military strikes in Syria: It will help protect Israel.
Right. The reason the administration is so intent on lobbing a few cruise missiles at Syria is to protect Israel. Secretary of State Kerry said:
“I think the stakes of...
Earlier this summer the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) held a BDS camp. The BDS (Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions) movement, which we have covered extensively, targets Israel.
These groups claim only to seek an end to the “occupation” of East Jerusalem and the West...
1) The Union Strikes Back
The European Union (EU) has just released new regulations governing certain dealings with Israel.
Starting in 2014, the EU (as a unit, individual states are not governed by these guidelines) will prohibit any dealings with private Israeli entities that liver or operate in Judea and Samaria, what is...
Now that George Zimmerman has been acquitted in a court of law, it’s reasonable to review how the case progressed. Breitbart provided a useful timeline. Here’s the third item:
March 13, 2012 – NBC’s...
1) More on AIPAC
In addition to explaining how the two organizers put together the AIPAC conference, Tablet has a symposium, Do we still need a pro-Israel lobby? Though there are some good responses, the presence of Rebecca Vilkomerson and Alan Elsner as respondents is disappointing. Vilkomerson is the executive director as Jewish Voices...
I am and always have been a liberal. I was raised to revere the Democratic party and feel contempt for the party of Richard Nixon (as well as the man himself). Democrats, everyone agreed, were freer spirits. Uptight Republicans, everyone agreed, lighted cigars with hundred-dollar bills they’d stolen from poor people.
And...
All the attention this week was focused on the removal of “God” and reference to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from the DNC platform. Those terms were reinserted based on the rused that two-thirds of delegates approved, when it was clear that there was not the-thirds support on the voice vote.
But the...
As detailed here many times, there are just as many Jewish refugees from Arab countries as there are Arab refugees from Israel. The Jewish refugess are the refugees whose n...
There is one worthwhile clause in an otherwise worthless article at The Atlantic by Steve Clemons, Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in the Back of the Bus.
Clemons lays out the fiction that the Palestinian strategic move to take land without peace is something Gandhi-like:
Obama’s position on this is dangerous in another sense as well. Obama —...
No surprise here. Jewish students at the University of California, Berkeley, have filed a lawsuit (h/t) claiming that university officials have failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and intimidation by anti-Israeli groups:
A pattern of harassment and physical assaults by members of two Muslim student groups at the University of California, Berkeley...
To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, “folly” would be far, far too kind.
Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction “illegal.” The U.S. vetoed the resolution.
Standing in isolation, all was good.
But the fact is that the...
I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome.
Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or excused such violence, as in Malmö. In a...
George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California*, Hastings College of Law. His is the son of a Palestinian father who immigrated to the U.S. several years before the creation of Israel, and an American mother.
I first learned of George Bisharat when we both were students at Harvard...
