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From the Oval Office, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sept. 27, 2013. Credit: Pete Souza/White House.

Watchdog group sues U.S. government to obtain records of BDS groups under Obama administration

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A conservative watchdog group has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense over Obama-era records pertaining to anti-Israel BDS groups. Judicial Watch...
U.S. President Donald Trump greets the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, prior to their bilateral meeting on May 21, 2017, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

An end to illusions about Egypt

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The Egyptian government recently passed a new law against spreading “rumors.” By “rumors,” the regime of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi means anything that might undermine confidence in or tell the truth about his...

Bill Clinton admits quiet campaign against Netanyahu during 1996 election

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In an interview, former U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted that he tried to help then-Israeli P.M. Shimon Peres defeat Benjamin Netanyahu during Israel’s elections in 1996, just a year after the assassination of Israeli...

Israel Defense Ministry: New US aid agreement may crush Israeli companies

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A comprehensive analysis by Israel’s Ministry of Defense of the effect of a U.S. foreign-aid agreement signed at the end of former President Barack Obama’s term in office has concluded that Israel will be...

Poll: Israelis consider Trump policies pro-Israel, Obama policies pro-Palestinian

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The poll published by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University on Wednesday reveals that most Israelis consider the Middle East policies of President Donald Trump to be pro-Israel, in sharp contrast to...

Former ambassadors Oren, Shapiro: Israel needs to win back democrats

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Following a recent Pew Research Center poll that revealed only 27 percent of Democrats sympathize with Israel more than with the Palestinians, while 79 percent of Republicans side with Israel, ominous headlines flooded Israeli and American...

Partisanship, Farrakhan and a ‘Liberal Jew’

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What if scenarios are the guilty pleasures of a certain kind of historian and science fiction fans. But even if you think pondering such questions is generally a waste of time, it’s hard to...

Dershowitz:”Obama stabbed Israel in the back!”

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That’s not the way policy should be made, to get even in the lame duck period when there are no checks and balances and you don’t have to worry about an election. It’s the...

Obama nominates Jewish judge, Merrick Garland, to Supreme Court

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President Barack Obama nominated to the Supreme Court a Jewish judge, Merrick Garland, who is currently the chief of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Garland, 63, a Chicago native, has...