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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Davos, January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Can the U.S.-Israel relationship survive a far-right government?

Israel’s new coalition and growing hostility toward AIPAC are straining the countries’ ‘unbreakable’ bond. But don't expect major U.S. policy change.

By Mitchell Plitnick November 30, 2022

Black Lives Matter protest in Century City, California on June 6, 2020. (Brett Morrison/CC BY 2.0)

Black-Palestine solidarity is making its way to Capitol Hill

Progressive Black Democrats are reviving a radical tradition of Palestine solidarity in Congress, challenging Black leaders in their own party and Washington's support for Israeli state violence.

By Alex Kane June 16, 2021

A volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip was intercepted by the Iron Dome system near the Israeli town of Beer Sheva, Nov. 15, 2012. (Uri Lenzl/Flash90)

US aid to Israel was once a given. What’s changing now?

It has been three decades since a U.S. president considered freezing aid to Israel. Progressives are now making sure that idea stays on the table.

By Majeed Malhas June 15, 2021

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Delegates react to then-Vice President Joe Biden's speech during the closing night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention held at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on September 6, 2012. (Jared Soares/PBS NewsHour/CC BY-NC 2.0)

This ‘progressive’ Israel lobby group has a racism problem

Democratic Majority for Israel has come under fire over a series of offensive social media posts, highlighting the group's aggressive and racist tactics.

By Alex Kane May 5, 2021

Prime Minister Netanyahu delivers a speech to both houses of Congress in Washington D.C. May 24, 2011. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

How hawkish Democrats are impeding Biden’s Middle East policy

From the Iran nuclear deal to the Israeli occupation, conservative Democrats are raising the political costs of adopting a more progressive U.S. foreign policy.

By Mitchell Plitnick April 13, 2021

Abdul-Ghani and Fadwa Awawdeh are seen among the debris of an Israeli demolition in the Palestinian community of Humsa al-Fuqa, in the occupied West Bank, November 4, 2020. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills)

Democratic lobby group defends Israel’s demolition of Palestinian hamlet

Blaming Palestinians for their own displacement, Democratic Majority for Israel is pushing back against its party's criticism of the largest West Bank demolition in a decade, memo reveals.

By Alex Kane December 16, 2020

Israeli supporters of Donald Trump hold a support rally ahead of the U.S. presidential elections, in Beit Shemesh on November 2, 2020. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

The global right is a threat to US Jews — but a natural home for Israelis

As a minority, American Jews understand the dangers of authoritarians and nationalists. As a ruling group, Israeli Jews see them as logical allies.

By Yair Wallach November 16, 2020

Palestinian activists and allies protest the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, outside the White House, Washington DC, September 16, 2020. (Gili Getz)

Palestinian Americans are voting in droves. But why not from the West Bank?

Disenchanted by U.S. politics and bureaucratic hurdles under occupation, Palestinian Americans in the West Bank struggle to mobilize for the election.

By Henriette Chacar November 1, 2020

Linda Sarsour at a Get Out The Vote event in solidarity with the families of Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, Eleanor Bumpurs and other families who lost loved ones to police violence, New York City, October 17, 2020. (Gili Getz)

Biden or Trump, Linda Sarsour is still going to the streets

Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour talks about rallying for Biden despite her misgivings, and why defeating Trump is not enough for the progressive movement.

By Alex Kane October 28, 2020

President Donald Trump arrives in the House chamber prior to delivering his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2020. (Official White House Photo / Andrea Hanks)

GOP twists debate over civil rights law to smear Democrats as antisemitic

A parliamentary maneuver centered on antisemitism is part of a Republican effort to peel away Democratic Jewish voters ahead of the election.

By Alex Kane October 12, 2020

Podium at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (DNC Official Photo)

Annexation shouldn’t be the threshold for conditioning aid to Israel

By hinging U.S. leverage on de jure annexation, Democrats are giving Israel the green light to proceed with other crimes against Palestinians.

By Yousef Munayyer August 18, 2020

Jamaal Bowman, the new Democratic candidate for New York's 16th Congressional District, at a protest demanding safer maternity care for Black women. (Courtesy of Bowman for Congress)

What Jamaal Bowman’s victory means for America’s progressive movements

Bowman's unseating of Eliot Engel shows that neither the power of incumbency nor the backing of the Israel lobby is enough to win an election.

By Alex Kane June 28, 2020

Democratic primary challenger Jamaal Bowman speaks to supporters at his campaign launch in the Bronx, New York, June 18, 2019. (Corey Torpie)

New York primary puts Democratic divide over Israel in the spotlight

Congressman Eliot Engel, a pro-Israel hawk, is being challenged by Jamaal Bowman, a Black educator whose victory would mark a heavy setback for the Israel lobby.

By Alex Kane June 22, 2020