Posts Tagged: Barack Obama
University of Massachusetts Student Arrested for Allegedly Punching Jewish Student, Spitting on Israeli Flag
A University of Massachusetts-Amherst student has been arrested for allegedly punching a Jewish student who was carrying an Israeli flag during a gathering held to call...
‘Mini-Deal,’ Maximum Mistake
JNS.org - Both Winston Churchill and Abba Eban have been credited with saying, “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing… after...
Ticketmaster Slammed for Keeping Nation of Islam Leader Farrakhan on Platform
Jewish leaders are calling on Ticketmaster, a marketplace for ticket sales, to stop giving Louis Farrakhan, the antisemitic leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI),...
The Iran Nuclear Deal Is Dead. Or Is It?
JNS.org - Like the parrot in that wonderful Monty Python sketch, American and European diplomats have been trying to persuade themselves that the 2015 nuclear...
Trump Tells US Jews to ‘Get Their Act Together’
i24 News - Former United States president Donald Trump on Sunday told American Jews to "get their act together," accusing them of being ungrateful in...
Biden Says There Is Enough Petroleum to Reduce Amount Purchased from Iran
US President Joe Biden said in a memo to the US State Department on Friday that there were sufficient supplies of petroleum so other countries...
White House Denies Biden Is Snubbing Israel’s Netanyahu
The White House on Friday denied that US President Joe Biden was intentionally snubbing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by failing to include him so...
Trump’s Flaws Enabled His Middle East Successes
For those of my particular political persuasion, who might be called liberal conservatives or conservative liberals, the spectacle of the Trump presidency has not been...
Obama’s Failure, Biden’s New Team, and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Divide
Barack Obama’s fourth memoir incurs on Jewish history by giving it the title A Promised Land, promised as in plighted, stolen from Lord Balfour. During...
Obama’s Promised Land
A Promised Land, Barack Obama’s newly-published 768-page memoir that tops The New York Times Best Seller List, borrows its title from the Biblical recounting of...
Obama’s Revisionist ‘Promised Land’
JNS.org - I have never criticized former US president Barack Obama publicly — neither during my time in the Knesset nor anywhere else — despite...
Obama, Netanyahu, AIPAC and the Jews
Several years ago, a friend and I were discussing yet another of then-President Barack Obama’s seemingly endless clashes with Israel, and I suddenly said, “Wait...
Warm Peace, Cold Calculation
JNS.org - On Oct. 18, 2020, Israeli and Bahraini officials signed a normalization declaration in Manama, yet another step towards an official peace treaty. The...
Beware of Israel’s Critics
At his Times of Israel blog on September 24, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Jeffrey Herf cites “the great American weakening, which has been the hallmark...
