Washington Watch Articles From 2021
Netanyahu Is Out But Nothing Has Changed
One month after the end of the last hostilities between Israel and Hamas, events on the ground demonstrate that little has changed.
Immigration Heritage Month: The Two Sides of America’s Story
Speaking at the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre in which White mobs ravaged a prosperous Black neighborhood killing as many as 300 Black Americans, President Joseph Biden observed, "We can't just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know. We should know the good, the bad, the everything."
Our Democracy Is at Risk
Speaking at a Memorial Day observance last week, President Joseph Biden noted, rather ominously, "Our democracy is in peril."
Israel and the Religious Right: A Bad Bet
At a recent conference in Israel, Ron Dermer, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, was asked to respond to the criticism that during his tenure in Washington he focused more on courting conservatives than on liberal Americans.
The US Debate on Israel/Palestine Is Changing
In the 45 years since launching the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, I've witnessed more tragic wars than I can care to count and defends Palestinians against more heinous crimes than I can bear to list.
Lessons That Must Be Learned
On Wednesday, I was in the midst of running my weekly “Zoom chat” with readers of this column when the discussion was hacked and ended by a pro-Israel group playing loud songs in Hebrew.
The Big Question Posed by HRW’s Report
While reading Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) monumental report “A Threshold Crossed,” I felt a range of emotions. It also left me with one big question.
Acknowledging Genocide
As expected, US President Joseph Biden’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide during the Ottoman Empire was greeted with relief by Armenian Americans and outrage by many Turks.