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Biden Makes History: First President in 40 Years to Punt on Contacting Israel White House doesnt list Israel as American ally Getty Images Adam Kredo • February 12, 2021 6:30 pm SHARE President Joe Biden is the first American leader in 40 years not to contact Israel’s leaders as one of his first actions in the White House, setting up what could be four years of chilly relations between America and its top Middle East ally. Biden has already phoned multiple world leaders, including Rus...

Hady Amr, the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, is coming in with a fresh perspective, regional relationships and years of experience – and he has a lot of work to do

Bidens choice of an anti-Israeli for the Natl Sec Council spells trouble. Mon Feb 8, 2021 Israel’s March 23 elections are being presented as a simple referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The media and Netanyahu’s opponents would have us believe that there is no ideological struggle; it’s all just a question of whether you love or hate Bibi. But this is untrue. The coming elections are primarily about ideology. To understand why this is the case, we need to loo...

The hard sciences once seemed immune to the politics that dominate the humanities and social sciences, but no longer. A growing assemblage of scientists has singled out Israel as the one nation on earth that must be excluded from all normal contact with other nations.

Will the Boycott-Israel Clique Co-opt the Scientific Community? A. J. Caschetta © Amir Cohen/Reuters A technician looks through a microscope in a laboratory at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 15, 2019. Last year, after chemistry professor Mindy Levine was invited to guest-edit a special issue of the journal Molecules, a group dedicated to the academic boycott of Israel briefly persuaded the journal to rescind the offer unless she consented to removing “Israe...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Among the Jewish community in America, sadly, being both pro-Israel and politically Conservative, places one within a minority of a minority. For the past four years, there existed stand-out sta...

Jewish Ledger NBC retracts story on Biden official’s ties to $500,000 in AIPAC donations (JTA) — NBC has retracted a report about hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, by a top Biden security official’s family foundation. The article, which amplified a report by the left-wing investigative magazine Mother Jones, outlined more than $500,000 in giving to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee by a foundation named fo...

As Israel heads into its fourth elections in just two years, it can be easy to be fed up with... The use of ethnic studies and “racial equity” by the BDS movement to generate antisemitism was demonstrated by the California “ethnic studies” curriculum — and also by comments from a University of California Riverside professor that “Most California public education administrators don’t understand how Zionism politically toxified our schools and curricula. It prevents us from teaching...

Maher Bitar and Israel’s ideological elections Featured Column Maher Bitar and Israel’s ideological elections U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to name an anti-Israel political activist as senior director for Intelligence at the National Security Council may place Israel in a precarious position. (January 31, 2021 / JNS) Israel’s March 23 elections are being presented as a simple referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The media and Netanyahu’s opponents would have us believe...

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