A Brooklyn coffee shop banned a pro-Israel congressman and faced a DOJ investigation within days. The legal theory is thin. The chilling effect is the point.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Democrats' Israel-Palestine strategy has failed — a public admission from a party insider that is more damning than it first appears. The real question is whether the party mistakes a political reckoning for a moral one.
Itamar Ben-Gvir filmed himself taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists at an Israeli port. France and Italy condemned it. Neither has suspended arms transfers to the government he serves.
A DNC resolution to reject AIPAC funding forces Democratic leaders to choose between a powerful donor network and a base that increasingly views the pro-Israel lobby as toxic to progressive values.
Israeli strikes killed 13 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and two children, as more than 20,000 patients await medical evacuation through a border crossing that will only partially reopen.
AIPAC is spending $13.7 million through shell Super PACs in Chicago primaries, never mentioning Israel once. It's the first test of whether pro-Israel money can still buy elections after a year of Gaza protests.