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The reality of Israel, and American Jews' image of Israel is not matching up

Ken Roth was attacked because he said that Israel’s conduct fosters antisemitism in the west. But he joins a long list of distinguished writers who have said the same, including Hannah Arendt.

<p>Americans don't actually hate history; they often begin to appreciate it after their undergraduate years and outside of the classroom. Does this point in a possible direction for securing the future of the profession? </p>

And McCarthy sets a date for Biden's State of the Union address.

'We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel' holds a searing and uncomfortable light to the U.S.-Israel relationship

Who is going to stop the repressive government of the extreme nationalist, colonial and religious right set up by Benyamin Netanyahu? Its coalition agreement suggests a worst-case scenario. Sylvain Cypel and Ezra Nahmad outline what the latter calls “Israel’s descent into the abyss”. On 30 December 2022, the day after the Israeli parliament ratified the new coalition government, the UN called on the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on “the ongoing violation by...

Israel’s nakedly fascistic politics are a wakeup call to American Jews. We are enabling apartheid. We are the political lifeline for militant racists who are going to hurt a lot more Palestinians.

From the blog of James M. Dorsey at The Times of Israel

Longtime leaders in the U.S. Jewish community, including Abe Foxman, Thomas Friedman, Rick Jacobs, and Dan Kurtzer, fear the new Israeli government will break the unbreakable U.S.-Israel relationship.

To Eric Alterman, ‘Israel is a red state’ while ‘US Jewry is blue’. Like so much else, Donald Trump has disrupted that dynamic