What have we learned in the last week about the politics of Israel and Palestine in Washington?

Last Thursday, President Obama made a rather tepid speech about his administration's policies in the Mideast in which he again affirmed the United States' longstanding close relationship with Israel. Yet his speech was...

Below are remarks I presented at the JStreet panel on BDS on February 28th:

I just want to take a moment in appreciation of J Street for including this discussion at the conference. It is the most important conversation, in my mind, that we can have at this moment, and...

let me be strong as history
let me join those who refuse
let there be time
let it be possible

--Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz

Those are the words that a small circle of women and men read together on a humid New...

Co-authored by Jesse Bacon, JVP Board Member and co-editor of theonlydemocracy.org.

Over the last week there has been a significant outcry in Israel and in some Jewish circles in the US about an ugly, anti-Semitic, and sexist ad campaign against the US-based New Israel Fund (NIF), a key funder...

Co-authored by Neil Strauss

While President Obama tries to persuade Israel to stop constructing illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, some Americans are working hard to expand and entrench the Israeli occupation. The Hebron Fund and dozens of other tax-exempt nonprofit organizations raise funds in the United States and send...