The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is funding Eagles’ Wings in order to prevent churchgoers and priests “from adopting pro-BDS and anti-Israeli positions.” This week, Eagles’ Wings is spearheading a push on Capitol Hill against Israel’s public relations crisis. They don’t disclose their $700,000 Israeli check.
News from Gaza, Gaza flotilla ■ More settler, anti-Christian violence ■ Jonathan Pollard ■ Moral injury and faux innocence ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon ■ More.
Immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests or posting criticism of Israel on social media.
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Nick Stewart, the director of lobbying at the pro-Israel Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, has joined Steve Witkoff’s Iran negotiating team
Netanyahu tried to smooth over recent Israeli anti-Christian hostility by showing off his token Christian soldiers. Don’t believe the hype.
Flotilla activists remain in detention, tortured ■ Israel killing of Palestinians continues in Gaza, West Bank ■ Israel poised to spend tens of billions of dollars on new warplanes ■ More.
Flotilla update ■ Another Israeli land grab in Gaza ■ Latest on Iran, Lebanon ■ Will Netanyahu refuse to recognize election results if he loses? ■ More.
Israel is preparing to spend nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars on its propaganda arm as it seeks to counter a worsening global image shaped by its genocide in Gaza and regional wars, according to its national budget passed in March
US sides with Israel on flotilla stoppage ■ Israel continues to block sheltering mat’ls from Gaza ■ Gaza unemployment at 68% ■ Israel may return to Iran attacks soon ■ Rubio floats a plan to disarm Hezbollah so Israel won’t have to ■ Israel earmarks $730 million to refurbish its reputation ■ More