Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the parties in his coalition seem to be losing support heading into Israel’s first election since Oct. 7 – with one exception. Otzma Yehudit, headed by Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, is seeing a…
In Israel’s election, Netanyahu faces a reckoning over Oct. 7 failure
With barely two weeks remaining before Israel’s Oct. 27 election, the country has been consumed by an extraordinary confrontation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior former aides over what he knew before the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023,…
Top Huckabee Aide Covered Up Report on Killings of 9 Americans by Israeli Settlers
A top aide to Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, is being called a “traitor” following revelations that he manipulated embassy reports to portray the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a positive light, including covering up a…
They Led Protests Against Netanyahu. Can They Turn Outrage Into Political Power?
Israelis will come together to commemorate the third anniversary of the Hamas attack. Three weeks later, they will gather again, this time at the voting booth, for the first national election since Nov. 2022. The shadow of the first event…
The two ways to see Oct. 7 – and how they’ll influence the Israeli election
There are two ways to look at the Oct. 7 attacks, and which way you do will determine, to a large degree, whether you want to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survive the next election.
NY Jewish Democrats defend Mamdani after Netanyahu calls him a Hamas supporter
Some top New York Jewish Democrats are defending New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him an “antisemite” and said he is “buddies” with Hamas.
Mamdani once vowed to arrest Netanyahu. Now he won’t join protests against him.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday that he will not join protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in the city to address the United Nations annual gathering next week and pushed back on the…
Israel’s Ben-Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40′ people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage
An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition publicly advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night, comments that surfaced Sunday and were quickly shared by Palestinian media.
Book says ‘special relationship with Israel’ is bad deal for US
The timing may be right for a fresh look at the longstanding “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. aid since the 1970s. “Americans have increasingly negative views of Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin…
Americans view people of Israel and Palestine more favorably than their governments
Americans view the Israeli government more negatively than they do the people of Israel and Palestine, Pew Research Center reports. “Majorities of Americans express an unfavorable view of the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority (which controls the West Bank) and…
Netanyahu drags Mamdani into his reelection campaign as face of antisemitism
For nearly two years, Zohran Mamdani has made Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a central political target. Now Netanyahu is making Mamdani part of his own reelection campaign.
Why Mamdani kept pushing for Netanyahu’s arrest
Let us stipulate that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a very talented politician. So why would he insist that he intended to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested up until the point when he released a two-minute video saying he…