Trump Invokes Anti-Semitic Stereotypes and RJC Applauds

by Eli Clifton It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Donald Trump didn’t hold his tongue at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s candidate forum. Trump delivered one of his trademark unfiltered, unscripted stump speeches in which he riffed off a series of anti-Semitic… Continue Reading

Is John Kerry an Anti-Semite?

by Jim Lobe For a rather slow Thanksgiving weekend, must reading should include an article on The Nation website by Henry Siegman, a former head of both the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America. The article assails a full-page ad that… Continue Reading

Acknowledging Reality in the U.S.-Israeli Relationship

by Paul R. Pillar On the eve of a visit by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, we have gotten yet another of the statements from members of his government that are sufficiently unrestrained or unhinged to cause a… Continue Reading

Netanyahu’s Stereotyping

by Paul R. Pillar Benjamin Netanyahu’s bit of revisionist history about the origins of the Holocaust certainly deserves the outraged response it got this week. One wonders why he chose to push this line given the well-established and easily cited… Continue Reading

Obama the Anti-Semite?

by Ali Gharib There’s an odd, but not altogether surprising, line of attack developing against the Obama administration and other proponents of the Iran nuclear deal: that they are anti-Semites. How did this happen? The meme mostly owes to salvos… Continue Reading