News and Opinion If I Forget Thee… Should Jerusalem be on the table? — J. J. Goldberg It always happens when Israel approaches a peace agreement with the Palestinians: Noisy voices of protest arise within the American Jewish community, arguing that Israel misjudges the Palestinians, doesn’t understand the terrain, doesn’t understand the Middle East as […]

By Gamaliel Isaac By comparing Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin Luther King, Condoleezza Rice has managed to sully the heritage of Jews and Blacks at the same time. Last October, in Jerusalem, Rice compared the struggle of the Palestinians to that of the African-Americans for civil rights. She also compared Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin […]

By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVEUPI Editor at Large WASHINGTON, 18 (UPI) — President Bush’s Air Force One was still airborne on its way back from a six-country, eight-day tour of Middle Eastern capitals when agreements and understandings began to unravel. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah was noncommittal on pumping more crude oil. With oil near $100 per […]

By Nathan Guttman Washington – The detention of three right-wing activists during President Bush’s visit to Israel has sparked claims that Israeli police are intentionally targeting groups and individuals who oppose the push of Ehud Olmert’s government for a two-state solution. The three activists — from the Israel office of the Zionist Organization of America […]

Daily Analysis by Michael Moran President George W. Bush’s eight-day trip through the Middle East lived up to its billing as a momentum-building exercise. The stated goal was “advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,” as National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley put it January 9 en route to Israel. The trip’s other main aim, drumming up opposition […]

Suppression of Dissent By Israel Insider staff The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) slammed the detention by Israeli police of its Director in Israel, and two activists, Susie Dym and Yehudit Dassberg (who lost a daughter and son-in-law in an attack by Arab terrorists), on the evening of January 9th in front of the Dan […]

An Israeli group and U.S. Jewish group are banding together to promote a united Jerusalem. The Coordinating Council on Jerusalem, founded last October by members of several U.S. Jewish groups as a response to renewed discussion of dividing Jerusalem in the lead-up to the Annapolis peace conference, has formed an alliance with the Israeli group […]

As noted by Engage, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for a boycott of Al Quds University in East Jerusalem in response to alleged comments made recently by Sari Nusseibeh, the university’s President and translated by MEMRI. In a television panel with Ahmed Tibi, Nusseibeh said: The Israelis now living in the territories […]

(IsraelNN.com) The Zionist Organization of America has condemned the United States government’s Office for Civil Rights for failing to protect Jewish students at University of California, Irvine. The Office for Civil Rights recently decided that a series of Muslim speeches and rallies on the campus were anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic, and therefore did not target Jewish […]

This article can be found on the web at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/alterman the liberal media by Eric AltermanJanuary 7, 2008 issue Today’s topic is the paradox—or one of them, anyway—of American Jewish political behavior. No, it’s not that hoary old cliché that they “earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.” Rather, it’s that they think like […]