The Observer has learned that Senator Cory Booker, who is under fire from Jewish supporters who had long treated him as one of their own, has convened an unusual emergency meeting to shore up his support in the wake of his decision to support President Obama’s deal with Iran. Around noon on Friday afternoon, Mr. […]

The upcoming rally at the U.S. Capitol against the U.S. nuclear agreement with Iran is still on – and has gained much momentum despite the fact that President Obama has secured enough support in the Senate to prevent Republican forces from blocking it. Some star power is involved. The speaker’s roster for the event on […]

Call it a public display of political affection: Sen. Ted Cruz has invited Donald Trump to Washington next month for a rally against the Iran nuclear deal. The two Republican rivals are set to appear at an event organized by the Tea Party Patriots, the Center for Security Politics, and the Zionist Organization of America, […]

Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has invited Donald Trump to attend a September 9 rally against the Iran deal, but other 2016 presidential candidates who want to join might not receive the same courtesy. “Two other presidential candidates called me — they didn’t call me directly, their top aides called me — asking if they […]

The 2004 novel “The Plot against America,” written by Philip Roth, presents an alternative fictional history of political events in the U.S. during World War II. In the novel, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated in the 1940 presidential election by Charles Lindbergh, the first pilot in history to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic […]

Though they’re rivals on the campaign trail, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are teaming up for a joint attack on President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. The Texas GOP senator’s campaign announced Thursday that he’s invited Trump to join a rally planned at the Capitol soon to pressure lawmakers on opposing the nuclear agreement. […]

Perhaps we should thank Spain’s Rotodom Sunsplash reggae festival organizers. They just provided us with a textbook case both of the nature of today’s anti-Semitism and of how to defeat it.   Last weekend, the festival organizers canceled their invitation to Matisyahu, the American-Jewish reggae artist, because he refused to bow to the organizers’ demand […]

The American rabbis who sent a letter to Congressmen urging that they support the Iranian nuclear deal include a large number who are affiliated with left-wing organizations that often act against the Israeli consensus, a study by the right-wing Zionist Organization of America found Wednesday. The letter was signed by 340 rabbis from all streams […]

Bradley Harris (Letters, 8/6) follows up his op-ed in favor of the Iran deal by claiming in response to one of his critics that no deal would be much worse. This is untrue. The alternative to a bad deal was not war — although that is more likely, now that Israel might have no other […]

Critics repeatedly claim that the reason President Barack Obama agreed to a catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran is his naiveté, his ineptness, and his being out negotiated. Does Obama’s record validate that thesis? Or is there evidence that President Obama’s feelings toward Islam may require a different conclusion. President Obama attended Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s anti-America, […]