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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, March 10, 2019. (nrkbeta(CC BY-SA 2.0)

As AOC cancels Rabin event, Palestine movement finds new clout in Washington

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's withdrawal from a memorial for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin demonstrates the Palestinian rights movement's growing influence on the progressive left.

By Alex Kane September 26, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (Photo: State Dept.)

John Kerry’s attack on liberal democracy

According to reports, the secretary of state has accepted Netanyahu’s demand that Israel be recognized as a ‘Jewish state.’ I added an important update to this post, see below. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reported Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is demanding that Arab leaders pressure the Palestinians to recognize Israel as “a Jewish State,”…

By Noam Sheizaf January 8, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, and Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat address reporters on the Middle East Peace Process Talks at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2013. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

The peace industry’s slippery slope

The Left is mobilizing around the process while ignoring troubling signs: the dangerous dynamic of the Oslo/Camp David period is already here. On Wednesday night, as members of the Israeli Knesset were getting ready to vote on a package of amendments that could push the Palestinian parties out of the Israeli parliament, political activists were…

By Noam Sheizaf August 2, 2013

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Soon to be outlawed? A BDS rally in Melbourne (Photo: Takver)

Why did progressive U.S. Jewish groups oppose divestment?

Despite having an explicit anti-settlement position, J Street and Americans for Peace Now actively opposed the Presbyterian Church’s efforts to divest from companies that profit from the occupation. By doing so, they are standing in the way of the Palestinian stride for freedom. By Naftali Kaminski and Michael Zigmond Undoubtedly, when Peter Beinart wrote his…

By +972 Magazine July 14, 2012

Why I am proud of my work for J Street

By Max Socol In 2010, less than a year after returning to the United States from Israel, I helped establish J Street DC Metro. Like Moriel Rothman, I was deeply disturbed by Cast Lead, which had defined my time in Israel. I felt strongly that an American initiative would be needed for the bloodshed to stop,…

By +972 Magazine March 29, 2012

Is someone born in Jerusalem born in Israel?

Is someone born in Jerusalem born in Israel? This question is the subject of a US Supreme Court case, to be heard in the coming weeks. Israeli-American parents of Menachem Zivotofsky, born in 2002 in Jerusalem, want his birthplace to be listed in his passport as Israel – however it is currently listed as Jerusalem.…

By Mairav Zonszein October 6, 2011