Abe Silberstein is the Associate Director, North America, of The Abraham Initiatives, an Israel-based NGO working to achieve equality between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. He tweets @abesilbe. His views and opinions do not reflect those of his employer.
Abe Silberstein
By Abe Silberstein
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Opinion Will Cory Booker’s Flip-Flopping On Israel Hurt Him In 2020?
On Friday, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced he would seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. For Jewish voters, there is an extraordinary history to consider when it comes to Booker, a former Mayor of Newark and Rhodes Scholar who once offered to tweet a D’var Torah during a snow storm for Jewish…
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Opinion Trump Tweeted His Way Out Of Syria. Will He Blindside Israel Too?
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to announce the withdrawal of 2,000 American personnel from Syria immediately provoked reactions comparing his approach to Syria to President Obama’s: “Mr. Trump’s view that American forces cannot alter the strategic balance in the Middle East, and should not be there, was fundamentally shared by his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama,”…
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Opinion Israel Keeps Covering For Its Anti-Semitic Friends — And Endangering Diaspora Jews
The Israeli government is collaborating with nationalist regimes in Eastern Europe to diminish the legacy of the Holocaust. Again. That is the gist of an exclusive report from Barak Ravid, a leading journalist in Israel, regarding a controversial planned museum in Hungary. Scoop: Israel negotiating with Hungary over controversial revisionist Holocaust museum – my story…
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Opinion How George H.W. Bush Pushed Israel Toward Peace – With Tough Love
He was accused by the opposing party’s presidential nominee of demanding “unilateral concessions” from Israel and being soft on the Palestinians. His Secretary of State was denounced by some pro-Israel figures as an obsessive hater of the Jewish state who wouldn’t leave it alone. They led an administration that did not tolerate West Bank settlement…
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Opinion What The Midterm ‘Blue Splash’ Means For American Democracy
Soon after election night began, Democrats nervously watching election results started to have disconcerting recollections of 2016. Panic ensued. In Florida, Andrew Gillum and Senator Bill Nelson, the Democratic candidates for Governor and U.S. Senate, respectively, began falling behind as more election precincts reported in their results. Trump-enthusiast Ron DeSantis was declared the winner of…
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Opinion Yes, Synagogue Bloodbath Could Swing The Midterms — But Which Way?
On Saturday, after shouting “all Jews must die,” Robert Bowers callously murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, the worst anti-Semitic act of violence in American history according to the Anti-Defamation League. Bowers, like many anti-Semites in the United States and Europe, believes Jews are the…
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Opinion Nikki Haley Could Be The First Republican To Win The Jewish Vote For President
Nikki Haley announced her resignation on Tuesday in the presence of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, arguably the two most prominent Jewish Republicans in the country. While coincidence is the likely explanation, the image of Jared and Ivanka in the Oval Office still highlighted an important constituency that Haley has done much to woo during…
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Opinion When It Comes To The Middle East, Liberals Need To Be Trump’s Biggest Cheerleaders
On Wednesday night, Jared Kushner, along with Jason Greenblatt and deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, arrived in Israel ostensibly seeking what President Trump has taken to calling “the ultimate deal” between Israel and Palestine. Liberals may be tempted to mock these efforts at best and to hope they will fail at worst. But these…
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