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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit a memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Tuesday, October 30, 2018, following the mass shooting that left 11 worshippers dead. (Andrea Hanks/White House)

How the GOP brought antisemitism from the margins to the White House

A new website tracking incidents of right-wing antisemitism finds that rarely a week goes by without the Republican Party boosting white nationalism.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland June 15, 2020

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Director General of the Ministry of Health Moshe Bar Siman Tov hold a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, on March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

To please Trump, Netanyahu washes his hands of coronavirus advice

At the White House's request, Netanyahu ignored his Health Ministry and opted for a blanket quarantine policy to avoid embarrassing the U.S. president.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland March 10, 2020

President Trump displays the controversial Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism during an afternoon Hanukkah reception alongside members of his administration, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, in the White House, December 11, 2019. (Joyce N. Boghosian/White House Photo)

A failing campaign for the Jewish vote can’t hide GOP’s anti-Semitism

A new poll shows that no amount of right-wing smear campaigns can convince American Jews that Trump and the GOP have their best interests at heart.

By Dove Kent February 18, 2020

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Prime Minister Netanyahu attends a planting ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, February 10, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)

The empty promise of annexation

The 'Deal of the Century' was supposed to be Netanyahu's ticket to re-election and out of prison. That may no longer be enough.

By Meron Rapoport February 18, 2020

Settlers attend a demonstration against the demolition of nine homes in Ofra in the West Bank, February 5, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel’s fury over UN settlement ‘blacklist’ is only the beginning

On its own, the UN-compiled blacklist of companies with ties to Israeli settlements is rather generic. So why are Israel and the Trump administration so enraged?

By Omar H. Rahman February 17, 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders at the 2019 Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame Celebration, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 9, 2019. (Lorie Shaull/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Why are American Jews so afraid of one of their own?

There is nothing radical about Bernie Sanders’ views on Israel, yet the American Jewish establishment seems bent on portraying the Democratic front-runner as an anti-Semite.

By Joshua Leifer February 16, 2020

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs the Oslo Accords on the White House Lawn. Behind him are U.S. President Bill Clinton, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and other world leaders, Washington DC, September 13, 1994. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

How the U.S. made Palestine the exception to the rules of peacemaking

Israel has only ever offered Palestinians two things over the past century — submission or devastation — and the Americans have always backed them.

By Amjad Iraqi February 10, 2020

A mural depicting President Donald Trump kissing an Israeli army watchtower on the separation wall in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, August 4, 2017. (Flash90)

Don’t eulogize the two-state solution just yet

Trump’s peace deal may have declared the death of the 'classic' two-state formula, but that doesn't mean we should abandon the idea altogether.

By Said Zeedani February 5, 2020

IfNotNow activists protesting against Birthright programs in New York. (Gili Getz)

American Jewish leaders betray their community by backing Trump’s deal

The American Jewish establishment's alignment with philo-Semitic officials and the pro-settler right is not in the interest of Jews in Israel or the diaspora.

By Mairav Zonszein February 2, 2020

Members of the Haganah militia training in the Jeezrel Valley during the 1948 War in Palestine, March 3, 1948. (Zoltan Kluger/GPO)

Trump vilifies Palestinians for using the same violence that birthed Israel

Trump's 'Deal of the Century' speech condemned Palestinians for terrorism and praised Israel for peace — all while ignoring Israel's own violent history.

By Edo Konrad January 30, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat sign the Wye River Memorandum at the White House, October 23, 1998. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

From Clinton to Obama, U.S. peace deals have paved the path to apartheid

America's 'peace' parameters have sanctioned Israel's domination of Palestinians, decades before Trump.

By Zaha Hassan January 30, 2020

Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian youth during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Hebron, West Bank, December 7, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

For Bibi and Trump, peace means Palestinian submission

To say that Israel has 'yearned for peace' since its creation is to utterly deny the state's violent legacy.

By Nooran Alhamdan January 29, 2020

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu stop to talk with reporters on Monday, January 27, 2020, along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House, prior to their meeting in the Oval Office. (White House Photo/Joyce N. Boghosian)

For Trump, Palestine is just another ‘shithole country’

Were it not for his racism, the president could have taken inspiration from the Palestinian people's ability to survive Israeli oppression.

By Eitay Mack January 29, 2020