Dissent may be patriotic; hate and racism aren't.

The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) has been keeping track of the vile Holocaust/Nazi/fascist/treasonous/anti-Semitic/racist rhetorical comparisons leveled against President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders; I feel dirty just overseeing the collection of this...

Last April, a blogger asked if Glenn Beck is Jewish. If there were any doubt, Beck's tweet from Rosh Hashanah morning (last Saturday and the start of the Jewish New Year) puts that to rest. At 10:37 a.m. on September 19th @GlennBeck tweeted:

Sept 28. Lets make...

MSNBC conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has a history of insensitivity to issues surrounding the Holocaust. Yet again, with the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, Buchanan posted a telling column on his own website and on Townhall...

The level of hypocrisy in the GOP playbook is astonishing. Last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives pushed a letter wrongly questioning President Barack Obama's support of foreign aid to Israel, despite the fact that they voted against the administration's foreign aid bill a few weeks earlier...

THIS MONTH marks the 15th anniversary of the death of a Bay Area political powerhouse -- Bert Coffey. You may not know who Coffey was, but Contra Costa locals feel his impact every day. His legacy lives through the candidates he supported, the crucial bond measures he helped pass, and,...

Jonathan Tobin, Executive Editor of Commentary magazine, penned a piece in The Jerusalem Post, "The Death of Jewish Republicanism?" Tobin uses a hyperbolic title to sell an attack on the Republican Party's latest defector, but in exploring the role of Jews in the Republican Party, what's most shocking is...

When I wrote, "What is Best for Coleman?," urging Coleman to drop his court challenge some thought I was being facetious. Maybe Coleman should have listened.

We are now in the next stage of Republican attempts to delay Minnesotans' full representation in the U.S. Senate. Yesterday's strongly worded ruling...

This morning when I read JTA's "World War III over a Senate seat?" I couldn't help but worry that this battle may be far from over.

In JTA's post on the Minnesota Senate race, Eric Fingerhut asked, "Will Minnesota ever get its second senator?" Fingerhut immediately answered his...

Last week, The Washington Times ridiculously wrote of the "Nazi version of efficiency" when criticizing health care provisions in the stimulus plan. The use of this example is not only inaccurate, but it is insensitive and clearly beyond the pale of even the most partisan critiques of the stimulus...

Today, Larry Greenfield, immediate past California Director for the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), has an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal titled, "A Grade of W." Greenfield suspends belief and ignores reality as he weaves a revisionist version of history where President George W. Bush had...

According to the latest NBC/WSJ poll, "President-elect Barack Obama is enjoying a larger post-election honeymoon with the American public than his recent predecessors did." There are plenty of numbers to illustrate this point and some interesting numbers about how Republicans see Governor Sarah Palin.

67% say...

What would happen if Senator Barack Obama, Joe Biden or any Democrat campaigned with a Senator who obstructed legislation that would tighten sanctions against Iran? What would the Republican National Committee, the Republican Jewish Coalition, or the McCain campaign say? What would Governor Sarah Palin say?

Earlier this week, Palin...

In his interview with CNN's Wolf Blizter last Friday, Senator John McCain pledged to move the U.S. embassy in Israel "right away" from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Like President George W. Bush and Senator Robert Dole before him, McCain's empty promise to move this embassy is a shameless...

When attacking Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain and his allies seem to have little regard for the truth. At the National Jewish Democratic Council we fight the right's fear and smear campaign daily. It seems that their rhetoric increases as it becomes more apparent that McCain's values are...

Sometimes it is hard to believe the level of hypocrisy practiced by Senator John McCain and his Republican allies when it comes to their lack of commitment to strengthening and enforcing sanctions against Iran. Today, Sharon Theimer of the Associated Press reported that, "U.S. exports to Iran -- including...