Netanyahu does damage control after Trump, Vance, Rubio condemn annexation push

Netanyahu to meet with Trump at White House on Tuesday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Monday, where he will meet with President Donald Trump and attend the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), his office announced on Friday.&nbsp; Slated for Tuesday, the Oval Office meeting — Trump and Netanyahu’s first in-person sitdown since the start of the Iran war in... <a href="">Read More</a>

‘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>