"...We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision..." Amazing (and seemingly-justified) statement from Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) re FIFA's decision re Folarin Balogun #WorldCup Red Card reversal www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

#OnThisDay - July 6....1882: Start of First Aliyah...1975: Mexico City Womens Conference begins UN “Zionism Is Racism” effort...1942: Anne Frank goes into Hiding...1938: Evian Conference...2020: #AIPAC re Senator Van Hollen open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #Zionism #Israel

Entebbe, 50 years on: IDF hero paralysed by bullet in raid relives operation he joined for an ‘interesting adventure’ www.thejc.com/news/world/e...

#OnThisDay (JULY 5) in 1950: The Israeli Knesset passes The "LAW OF RETURN." Every Jew in the World has the right to come to Israel and be an Israeli citizen. (There have been a couple of subsequent amendments and the issue of "Who Is A Jew." #Israel #LawOfReturn #Jews

"Entebbe 50 Years later...If Entebbe were to Occur Today" - On the 50th Anniversary of the Israeli rescue at Entebbe; a consideration of what reactions would be today if there were an identical rescue by Israel with identical results. open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

Not sure if these days we need a "trigger warning" when posting something positive about Israel! 50 Years ago today - #OnThisDay in 1976: The Israel rescue at #Entebbe. There were several films made Entebbe.However the best, most realistic was the 1977 Israeli Film, "Operation Thunderbolt"

"Washington Views" Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors & Other Views - July 3, 2026 - Offering the perspective of a former almost-40-Year-long #AIPAC Staffer

#OnThisDay JULY 3-5....1976: Entebbe Rescue 50 Years ago. (US Praise. UN Criticism!)...1904: Herzl Died...1950: The "Law of Return" Adopted….1988: USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian Airliner...1975: Zion Square (Jerusalem) Refrigerator Bombing...1904 Theodor Herzl Dies at age 44. #Israel #Entebbe

In a new op-ed for @forward.com, Brad Lander responds to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's prediction that an emboldened left will consider him an expendable Jew and vote him out the way he defeated Dan Goldman.

#OnThisDay - JULY 2….2016: Elie Wiesel Dies at age 87...1964: "1964 Civil Rights Act" signed...1973: Aftermath of DC Murder of #Israeli Attache, Yosef Alon + 1,000 Days since "October 7th;" a reminder how "Detractors" responded in the first 24 hours open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #October7

From @jewishinsider.com "Human rights orgs have routinely ignored complaints of antisemitism for years, per new report - The report draws on interviews with more than 70 current and former employees of groups such as [HRW, Amnesty, Doctors without Borders] jewishinsider.com/2026/07/huma...

"ON THIS DAY" JULY 1 - 1994: Arafat Returns to Gaza...1973: Israeli Defense Attache, Yosef Alon shot and killed in Bethesda...1948: Mickey Marcus Buried at West Point....1916: First Day of the Battle of the Somme + "Key July Dates

#OnThisDay - June 30... 1948: Last British Troops Leave 'Palestine' (Israel)...2014: Bodies of the 3 Murdered Israel Teens, Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel & Eyal Yifrach found. ( Week later"Protective Edge")...1985: End of Hezbollah's TWA Beirut Hijacking...1934: Hitler’s “Night of the Long Knives”

#OnThisDay - JUNE 29 including among other events - 1946: British Crackdown on Jews in Mandatory Palestine. ...1967: Jerusalem Dividing Lines Ended..1976: Entebbe Day III open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

The latest J Street oped from JeremyBenAmi on an-obviously important topic "AIPAC, J Street and the Danger of Political Demonization - Criticism is essential to democracy. Demonization is a threat to it jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/aipac-j-st... @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @aipac.org #AIPAC

#OnThisDay -JUNE 28... 1993: #AIPAC Head, Tom Dine departs AIPAC 1976: Entebbe: Hijacked Air-France plane in Uganda 1967: Jerusalem unified/Annexed (US opposed) 1914: Sarajevo-Assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand (WWI) 1919: Treaty of Versailles 1969: Stonewall Riots

#OnThisDay - JUNE 27...1976: Air France Airliner Hijacked to Entebbe...1967: Jerusalem Unified #Jerusalem #Entebbe #Israel

"Washington Views" Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors & Other Views Regarding Israel and AIPAC + This Coming Week's "ON THIS DAY" Highlights - June 26, 2026 - Offering the perspective of a former long-time #AIPAC staffer open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

#OnThisDay JUNE 26 - 1945: United Nations Charter signed in San Francisco...1948: Start of Berlin Airlift...1963: President Kennedy in West Berlin "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"....1993: President Clinton Cruise Missiles Vs Iraq LINKS - substack.com/@michaellewi... JFK Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=56V6...

Flashback 3 Years... #OnThisDay in 2023: A (strong) joint statement from the IDF, Shin Bet and Israeli police re Settler Violence against innocent Palestinians in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria. I don’t believe there has been any recent similar joint statement!

For decades, many Israeli leaders have used military force in an attempt to solve problems that required political decisions. 1/2

From Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)…

"ON THIS DAY" - JUNE 24 " 2005: Iran -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elected President...2002; President George W. Bush "RoadMap to Peace..." 1948: Altalena Aftermath....1948: Berlin Blockade (leading to Berlin Airlift)

#IRAN has a long-history of involvement in the killing of Americans. In a couple of days, it will be 30 years since the June 25, 1996 truck bombing of "Khobar Towers" in Saudi Arabia killing 19 US Air Force personnel (Past piece by WINEP's Matt Levitt) www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...

And #AIPAC's Leadership in further meetings in Israel

#OnThisDay - JUNE 23....1992: Israeli elections, Yitzhak Rabin defeats Yitzhak Shamir to become Israel's next Prime Minister...1940: Adolf Hitler visits Paris after the French Surrender….Addendum: 1978: My Freshman Term paper at TAU - “The Causes of the Erosion of American Support for Israel!”

AIPAC's Lay and Board Leadership in Israel ....Meeting with Israeli President יצחק הרצוג - Isaac Herzog x.com/IsraelPresid... @aipac.org @isaacherzog.bsky.social #AIPAC

There are real, important critiques of AIPAC and of money in politics. Dehumanizing “monsters” rhetoric or coffee shops arbitrarily banning a Jewish congressman reinforce the same divisive, dangerous, zero-sum dynamics the right has long pushed. Everyone needs to do better.

#OnThisDay - JUNE 22 - 1948: The Altalena...1977: President Carter Signs Anti-Boycott Legislation....1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meeting with US Senators "I am not a Jew with Trembling Knees" michaellewisonline.substack.com/p/on-this-da...

#OnThisDay June 21, 1964: Three Civil Rights Workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. (#MississippiBurning) A few days after their disappearance, @nbcnews.com SPECIAL REPORT “Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner” www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOH...

At their convention this week, the United Auto Workers voted to completely divest from Israel Bonds in a historic victory for the labor and Palestinian freedom movements. This is a huge step toward ensuring our unions aren’t profiting from investing in genocide and apartheid.

Man on trial accused of tracking Jewish figures as targets for Iran-backed attacks www.thejc.com/news/world/t...

Punk turns 50: The Jewish voices that helped shape the scene www.thejc.com/life/punk-tu...

“ON THIS DAY” - JUNE 19.. “Juneteenth” 1953: The Rosenbergs - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed 1981: The UN Security Council unanimously condemns Israel for its destruction of Iraq’s Nuclear Reactor at Osirac. 1964 Civil Rights Act finally passed the US Senate after Fillibuster.

Washington Views Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors & Other Views - Week Ending June 19, 2026. Offering the perspective of a former long-time AIPAC Staffer open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #USIsrael #Israel

#OnThisDay - JUNE 18-21…1940: Churchill/Battle of Britain..1953: Rosenbergs Executed..1960: Eichmann Testifies...1967: Russia: Israel Like Nazis...1977: Likud Take Office...1981: UN Condemns Osirac...1996: Netanyahu Prime Minister for first time open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

#OnThisDay JUNE 17...1974: President Nixon completes Israel Visit…1939: SS St Louis returns to Europe…1991: AIPAC Preparing for Loan Guarantees Fight..1996: Netanyahu set to become Prime Minister...1885: Statue of Liberty Arrives…1972: Watergate + (May)1956 Bernard Lewis "American Views of Israel"

Explosive dossier that reveals escalating row between Jewish group and pro-Palestinian Greens www.thejc.com/news/politic...

Liberate your minds from ‘supremacist grip of Zionism’, pro-Palestine Greens Jews www.thejc.com/news/politic...

70 Years ago (May 1956) Bernard Lewis in @latimes.com "American Views of Israel "...we may add one other [motivation] -those who primary desire is not so much to help the Arabs as to hurt the Jews…I do not wish to suggest that all anti-Zionists or anti-Israelis are antisemitic - ...many however are"

#OnThisDay - JUNE 16….1974: First US Presidential Visit to Israel (Richard Nixon)...1963: Ben-Gurion Resigns as PM. Levi Eshkol his successor...2002: Security Fence Built in West Bank...1858: Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided cannot stand...." open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

Statement from @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social "J Street Responds to US and Iran Reaching an Agreement to End War" jstreet.org/press-releas...

#OnThisDay JUNE 15 - 1985: #Hezbollah TWA Hijackers Murder US Navy Diver Robert Stethem...1974: President Nixon's Mideast Trip...1976: DNC Recognize Jerusalem...1967: Moroccan Jews afraid…1933: US Amb Germany: Things will improve for German Jews...1215: Magna Carta open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

#OnThisDay ("Flag Day") in 1985: Terrorists from Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 from Cairo and took the plane to Beirut.The following day, #Hezbollah murdered one of the passengers, US Navy diver, Robert Stethem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Fli... - Flashback ABC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=adBn...

#OnThisDay JUNE 13...2021: New Government of Israel Bennett & Lapid...1990: Sec. State James Baker: "Israel: When Serious about peace, call us"...1978: Israel Exits Lebanon...1958: Ben-Gurion-US Jews Need Israel..1948: Mobs kills 26 Jews in Tripoli michaellewisonline.substack.com/p/on-this-da...

Washington Views: A Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors & Others and My Perspectives - Offering a pro-Israel - but not uncritical - perspective of a former long-time AIPAC staffer! Week Ending June 12, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

Jonathan Mahler in The New York @nytimes.com Magazine re Democrats and @aipac.org "AIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They’re Turning on AIPAC. Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, it is now a polarizing force in the party" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/m...

“ON THIS DAY” - June 12-14 open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

- From @jewishinsider.com's Matthew Kassell "Anti-Israel left takes a page from AIPAC in spending big in primaries - 'They took a page out of the AIPAC playbook over the past 30 years, in terms of recruiting and maintaining relationships with members of Congress.." jewishinsider.com/2026/06/anti...