Netanyahu to meet with Trump at White House on Tuesday

‘The tattoo should have been enough’: Top Platner advisor seeks repentance for Platner support

Morris Katz, a close advisor to Graham Platner who stood by the embattled Maine Democrat until the final days of his Senate race, is now adopting a more contrite tone as he looks back on what went wrong in the campaign, one of the most closely watched in the country this year.&nbsp; “The tattoo should have been enough,” Katz said in an interview on “The Ezra Klein Show” from The New York Times. He was referring to Platner’s tattoo of a Totenkopf, a symbol associated with the Nazi regime’s elite —&nbsp;and brutal —&nbsp;SS unit. Platner denied knowing what the tattoo, a... <a href="">Read More</a>

Trump's eleventh-hour Saudi switch-up

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Dems facing tension between their principles and primary politics

President Donald Trump’s capture of the Republican Party did not happen at once, and was memorably met with resistance from some lawmakers who would later become his allies.&nbsp; Many Republicans, during the rise of Trump, cast mostly party-line votes alongside the president and rarely spoke out publicly when they disagreed. But there were notable times... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/07/connie-chan-track-aipac-endorsement-scott-wiener-pelosi-schiff/">Read More</a>

Auchincloss: Voting against aid to Israel was a vote against the Iran war

Of the 103 House Democrats who voted to cut off the $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel last week, few came as more of a surprise than Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), a Jewish Democrat who has generally been a reliable pro-Israel vote in the House. Auchincloss, in an interview with Jewish Insider this week,... <a href="">Read More</a>

Boebert claims Hegseth, White House want U.S.-Israel cooperation provision stripped from NDAA

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) claimed this week that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the White House want to see a provision on U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation stripped out of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. Neither the Pentagon nor the White House responded to requests for comment from Jewish Insider on whether such claims... <a href="">Read More</a>