Tag: Progressives
Bennett, Gantz thank US after lawmakers overwhelmingly approve Iron Dome funding
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz posted messages of thanks to the United States minutes after the House of Representatives voted in favor of supplying Israel with $1 billion worth...
‘The Squad’ keeps inciting Jew-hatred, and their party keeps accepting it
Scapegoating Jews for the problems in a society has always been a central feature of Jew-hatred.
Since well before the German agitator Wilhelm Marr first utilized the phrase “anti-Semitism” in the late 19th century (to make Jew-hatred sound race-based, scientific...
Why are ‘progressive Jews’ defending Ben & Jerry’s?
If you thought that American Jews were going to unite against discrimination in ice-cream sales, you were wrong. The decision of the Ben & Jerry’s company to “end sales of our ice-cream in occupied Palestinian territories”...
The left slides into acceptance of anti-Semitism
As far as some of Israel’s most vicious critics were concerned, it was the sort of thing that gave their critiques of Zionism a bad name. It was difficult to pretend that the decision...
Omar forces a difficult choice for Jewish Democrats
After a surge in violent anti-Semitism inspired in no small part by vicious attacks on Israel by members of their party’s left-wing, some Jewish Democrats have had enough. After Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) compared the United...
Ocasio-Cortez, Omar rebuke Biden’s support for Israel as ‘siding with occupation’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rebuked U.S. President Joe Biden over his statement supporting Israel’s right to defend itself amid escalating violence with Hamas, accusing the president of “siding with occupation.”
Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Democratic pro-Israel group exposes rift among liberals over anti-Semitism envoy
A Democratic pro-Israel group exposed a rift among liberals over who should be the Biden administration’s choice for the next anti-Semitism envoy.
In a now-deleted tweet earlier this week, the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI)...
Report: Sanders adviser with anti-Israel history expected to join State Department
Matt Duss, a former foreign-policy adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is reportedly expected to join the U.S. State Department.
According to Politico, the move “will be viewed by many on the left as a victory for progressives.”
It...
Reform’s dangerous mixed message on defining anti-Semitism
After a year when it seemed as if a civil war between conservative and liberal groups would tear it apart, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations managed to unite and take a...
Progressive Jewish groups seek to undermine adoption of universal anti-Semitism definition
As the Biden administration prepares to take on major international issues of the day, a debate has emerged within the American Jewish community over whether the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism...