Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee who was contesting the U.S. Senate race in Maine, was a problematic candidate from the very start, yet his blatant shortcomings were willfully dismissed or ignored by the powers that be in his party. As the news site Axios noted in a prescient observation, he was “a walking time bomb.” […]
The latest tit-for-tat skirmishes between the United States and Iran, plus the bitter war of words these battles have set off, point to one inescapable conclusion. The memorandum of understanding these longtime adversaries signed last month is falling apart and may crumble altogether. As the five-day state funeral of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei […]
The lengthy funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, has been an elaborate and extended spectacle projecting strength, national unity, stability, continuity and vengeance after two successive wars with the United States and Israel within a year. Iran’s uncompromising message is mainly directed at the U.S., whose military bases in the region it […]
In a decision presumably driven by its currently abysmal relations with Turkey, Israel recently recognized the Armenian genocide. “It’s never too late to do the right thing,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote on X after the Israeli cabinet unanimously adopted this resolution, which has yet to be approved by the Knesset. Calling the recognition a […]
Three left-wing candidates endorsed by New York’s anti-Zionist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won Democratic Party primaries on June 23, upending politics in the city and underscoring Israel’s rapidly declining image and standing in the United States. In what was described as a pro-Palestinian sweep, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier won progressive districts in […]
Much to Israel’s detriment, Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir pulled off an asinine and embarrassing stunt that never should have happened. A video he released on May 20, in which he mocked pro-Palestinian detainees from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition as they were manhandled, handcuffed and pinned down on the deck of a ship […]
Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, once enjoyed wide bipartisan support among Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress, but that era of goodwill has virtually vanished, much to Israel’s detriment. Israel’s special relationship with the United States in the past few decades has rested on a foundation of bipartisanship and […]
A pro-Palestinian organization in Germany is trying to smear Israel by means of a deceitful political campaign. Kufiyas in Buchenwald hopes to stage a rally in the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial on April 12 to mark the 81st anniversary of its liberation by U.S. troops on April 11, 1945. Kufiyas in Buchenwald conceived the idea […]
China has condemned the United States’ and Israel’s joint military offensive in Iran and has called for an immediate ceasefire. As the largest buyer of Iranian oil, China provides Iran with critical economic support. At the same time, China seeks to maintain a stable relationship with Israel. In the past few years, however, antisemitic tropes […]
Joe Kent’s abrupt resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, D.C., represents an inflection point in the Republican Party’s evolving attitude toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran in a joint military operation with Israel. Kent, the first senior member of the Trump administration to voluntarily leave his post, resigned […]