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Biden Makes History: First President in 40 Years to Punt on Contacting Israel White House doesn't 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 Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping, but during his 23 days in office ha...

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

Biden's choice of an anti-Israeli for the Nat'l 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 look no further than U.S. President Joe Biden’s appointments. Last week, the White House announ...

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 “Israel” from her published address: “Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.” When she refused, the specia...