U.S. Government

From left: University of Haifa president professor Ron Robin, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and University of Haifa board member Eli Feinstein at the inauguration of University of Haifa’s Bloom School of Graduate Studies. Credit: The University of Haifa. (JNS) — […]

by Yoram Ettinger (Ettinger Report) — The U.S. does not give foreign aid to Israel, the U.S. makes an annual investment in Israel, one that provides the American taxpayer a return on investment of several hundred percent. Is that a […]

by Jonathan Feldstein There have been recent reports that the Biden administration is planning to remove five groups from the United States foreign terrorist blacklist. Each of these groups is now considered defunct. But it’s strange that if they are […]

White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on July 30, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Erin Scott. (JNS) — The new […]

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides arrives at his swearing-in ceremony as new ambassador to Israel, at the President’s residence in Jerusalem, Dec. 5, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90. by Israel Kasnett (JNS) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides […]

Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) in 2018 Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Christopher Dilts. by Ben Cohen (JNS) — During Barack Obama’s presidency, when diplomatic tensions between Israel and the United States sank to rarely seen lows, the term “Israel-Firster” was concocted by the […]

Capitol Hill. Credit: rarrarorro/Shutterstock. by Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) — With a deadline to fund the U.S. government past the temporary Continuing Resolution passed last month set to expire mid-February, pro-Israel organizations have been pushing to bring supplemental funding of Iron […]

by Jonathan Feldstein This week, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul blocked what would have otherwise been unanimous passage of the Iron Dome funding bill, HR5323, providing Israel with $1 billion to replenish its Iron Dome system following the war Israel endured […]

AIPAC president Betsy Berns Korn addresses the 2020 conference in Washington, D.C. Credit: AIPAC. by Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) — For the first time in its existence, AIPAC plans to support financially the campaigns of pro-Israel incumbents and candidates by forming […]

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — Most people probably remember Jack Nicholson’s iconic line in the film “A Few Good Men”: “You can’t handle the truth!” After reading that CIA director William Burns said the agency “doesn’t see any evidence that […]

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana introduced the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act to address whether Palestinian students are being taught inaccurate or racist content about Israel and the Jewish people. “The Middle East will never experience peace until […]