The reason the United States continues to fail on the Israeli-Palestinian track is because of the power of the pro-Israel lobby -- not just AIPAC, but its friends and followers -- in Washington.
David Suissa | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Can you imagine how transformational it would be if a high profile, "pro-Arab, pro-peace" organization pressured Palestinian leaders to dismantle the teaching of Jew-hatred in Palestinian society -- a hatred that has made a mockery of all moves toward peace?
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Some of the very House members who denounce the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and God knows how many other US military actions (often rightly) go mute when it comes to Israel.
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
The events harnessed an energy similar to Obama's presidential run last year. Like that campaign, J Street came as a breath of fresh air for many who felt they were part of a silenced majority.
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...
Kevin Coval | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Some right-wing blogs and pseudo-news organizations have churned the alarmist rumor mill about the J Street conference. What is disappointing, and troubling, is J Street's response: caving.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
There sure is a lot of effort going into discrediting an organization that is, in fact, only a little to the left of the "mainstream" pro-Israel organizations.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The left-wing Israeli lobby J Street's cheap tactics of creating its name by attacking Aipac, the ADL, and the ZOA is shameful. There's room in the Jewish community for many voices without creating a civil war.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Those of us who covered Israel's three-week Operation Cast Lead in Gaza are not surprised by the findings of the U.N. commission's report accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes.
James Zogby | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Despite the harshness of the AIPAC and ADL attacks, and the hurt, no doubt, they have brought to Mary Robinson, I am convinced that this entire episode had less to do with her than it does with the President.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment
Progressive Democrat Marcy Winograd is bringing Rachel's story to LA to support President Obama's call to freeze further expansion of Israeli settlements into the Palestinian territory.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
The number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an area that Palestinians regard as the heart of their future state, is swiftly approaching half a million.
Politico | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Two people asked a Pentagon official cooperating with prosecutors in an investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to fake his ow...
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
It's interesting to observe when some Democratic Congressional leaders say Democrats have to be "loyal" to Obama and when it's apparently OK to join Republicans in undermining him.
Larry Gellman | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
What was once a proud, smart, intelligent, nuanced, and diverse movement has devolved into a combination cult-booster club.
Baruch Weiss | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act, an almost-never used relic of World War I. The government also sought to have the defendants -- US citizens -- tried in secret.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
It might be the case that Netanyahu has far more friends in Washington than does the president.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
A movement that began amongst Palestinians with Israeli citizenship is now making its way to East Jerusalem and to the West bank. It is called "Mousawa" which means equality.
TAPPED | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
Coming off their national convention, AIPAC -- the main pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States -- has made a remarkable concession....
Stephen Zunes | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has steadfastly stood by her insistence that the U.S.-backed Israeli government has no legal or moral responsibility for the tragic consequence of the war.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
When is it too late to stop Israel from destroying itself? When is it too late to tell AIPAC attendees that more violence and hatred is not the answer?
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
The rhetorical exhortations this week from the Obama administration and the Netanyahu administration in Israel have been notably unaligned, fulfilling...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
Gingrich's speech at AIPAC was less politics than a grotesque "B" movie poster. He filled the room with horrifying tales death, destruction, Nazis, holocaust -- and not a Ronald Reagan to be found to save us from it all.
AP | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Israel's president charged Monday that Iran's nuclear program threatens the United States, Europe and Arab nations, as well as Isra...
Jerusalem Post | HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT in WASHINGTON | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Former US House speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday blasted the Obama administration for setting itself on a collision course with Israel and endangering ...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics