Tag: Trump Administration

Saudi Arabia is on a path to peace with Israel, but it needs to be given space to move at its own pace, former White House Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt told JNS in...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman came to his position as an attorney without a background in politics or diplomacy. Not being allegiant to a particular point of view, he said, “gave us an...

Six left-wing Jewish organizations asked the Biden administration on Tuesday to revoke a policy by the former Trump administration to label goods from Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank, as...

One winter morning in 2017, a young man arrived at the Kesher Israel synagogue in the heart of Washington. He prayed fervently, as if his heart was filled with a special request. His tallit...

In an open letter posted last week to his website, young-adult novelist Barry Lyga called for like-minded colleagues in the industry to join him in blocking the publication of bodies of work written by anyone associated...

The Trump administration plans to release a list of organizations that support the anti-Israel BDS movement, a senior Trump administration official told JNS. The groups are still in the works and being decided this month,...

Under the stewardship of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the administration in Washington has taken new approaches to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. The results have been profound, culminating in three...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his “personal friendship and everything that went along with it.” Emerging from what he called a “very intimate and productive...

Christiane Amanpour, Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor for CNN, infuriated many social-media users, pundits and politicians over the weekend after she compared the White House’s conduct to Nazi actions in the runup to the Holocaust....

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it has imposed sanctions on six individuals and four companies for allegedly working with an Iranian military firm. Those sanctioned allegedly facilitated the procurement of sensitive goods. These include...