Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz was jeered at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner on Sunday for suggesting that the organization must be a home to “all Zionists, not just right-wing Zionists.”
The United States signed a 10-year $38 billion “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) in September offering Israel the largest military package to any country in American history.
Last year, as many voters set their sights on the 17-plus candidates running for president, one presidential historian predicted that the 2016 presidential race would shape up to be the “most Jewish” election in the history of the United States.
Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer pledged to work with newly-appointed WH chief strategist Steve Bannon, despite the opposition from major Jewish organizations, after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Thursday.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received the blessing of the Peres family, expressing hope that he will maintain strong U.S.-Israel relations.
Steve Bannon, the newly-appointed chief strategist and senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is expected to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in Manhattan on Sunday, in what is seen as an attempt to change the perception about him over his views and past comments about Jews.
JI INTERVIEW with Norm Coleman, former Minnesota senator, who refused to support his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, for president. “Nobody saw it coming. It certainly shook the world with this victory,” Coleman told us in a phone interview.
Following through with a public commitment during the presidential election, Donald Trump should be very cautious about moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, former ADL chief Abe Foxman suggested on Thursday.
Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday assured American Jews that longstanding U.S. support for Israel will continue under a Donald Trump administration.
American Jews remained disproportionately loyal to the Democratic Party’s nominee for president this year, according to exit polling data, when compared with other base-party constituency groups.
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