On 5/19 join INN Executive Director Morriah Kaplan, BJL Collective cofounder @kohenetshoshana.bsky.social, IL-9 Dem nominee @danielbiss.bsky.social, & @indivisible.org Executive Director @leahgreenberg.bsky.social for a discussion on blocking weapons to Israel & building a thriving future for all.

US weapons have enabled Israel’s oppression of Palestinians for decades. For just as long, establishment politicians & Jewish institutions have claimed that bombs, walls, & repression keep our people safe. But we know how disastrous this strategy is. A new communal conversation is long overdue.

Jews in Devon and Cornwall growing fearful of showing identity in public, say campaigners www.thejc.com/news/uk/jews...

One year ago today, on May 12, 2025, American-Israeli Edan Alexander was released after surviving 584 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza after being kidnapped on October 7, 2023 from southern Israel. Credit: GPO

No illusions it’s going to change any minds. The report will be downplayed; ignored; denigrated - and of course, a slew of “What about…”The Civil Commission's Report "Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity" is out www.civilc.org/silenced-no-...

White House Jewish event ending just before Shabbat a ‘sad oversight’, say invitees www.thejc.com/news/usa/whi...

#OnThisDay - May 11 ... 1933: Day after the Nazi Book Burnings...1949: Israel admitted to #UN ..1960: Eichmann captured in Argentina ..1965: Israeli Museum opens...2021: Operation "Guardian of the Walls"....2022: Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed in Jenin... LINKS substack.com/@michaellewi...

Z”L ADL’s Abe Foxman. For many years, THE voice of American Jewry www.adl.org/resources/pr...

"ON THIS DAY"...May 10, 1933: The Nazi Book Burnings across Germany www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCm... #OnThisDay

Tomorrow at 1pm, outside Downing Street. Join us in standing with British Jews against the rise of anti-Jewish hate. No Bags Permitted. Searches in Place. Entrance only via Trafalgar Square End of Whitehall or Whitehall Place. See you there.

In the UK (London) news.met.police.uk/news/update-...

A different time - including in New York!... #OnThisDay in 1951 @jta.org reported "1,000,000 New Yorkers Cheer Israel's Premier [David Ben-Gurion]..." + British Pathe Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQwagSNbgTw www.jta.org/archive/1000... #Israel #BenGurion

#OnThisDay May 9: 1972: Hijacked Sabena Airliner Hostage Rescue at Lod (Ben-Gurion) Airport. (2 future Prime Ministers involved. Ehud Barak led rescue. Netanyahu also in the rescue). Note: 3 weeks later came the "Lod Airport Massacre" & in Sept "Munich Massacre" open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

Washington Views: A Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors and Other Views (Including my own!) open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #Israel #AntiZionism #Zionism #AIPAC #JStreet

Flashback 8 Years.. #OnThisDay in 2018: President Trump announces US withdrawal from the Iran deal - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - Text and Video of DonaldTrump's comments www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QiM... trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st... #Iran #JCPOA #DonaldTrump

Now a SECOND such incident in the space of 24 hours. A bus passenger arrested in Hackney after alleged Hitler & gas chamber comments to Jews. The suspect reportedly also claimed to have a knife and threatened Jewish passengers on the 254 bus, including children. www.jewishnews.co.uk/bus-passenge...

#OnThisDay - May 6th 1943: Nazis reaffirm continue exterminate Europe's Jews 1983: Hitler Diaries 2002: Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn assassinated 1937: "The Hindenberg" 1954: Britain’s Roger Bannister under 4 Minute Mile 2023: King Charles Inaugurated open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

Yesterday's Proclamation from President Trump - "JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2026..." Complete proclamation at www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... #Jews #AmericanJews

“ON THIS DAY” - MAY 5th….. 2009: Vice President JOE BIDEN Speaks at AIPAC (VIDEO: www.c-span.org/program/publ... Other #OnThisDay - LINKS to articles open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

#OnThisDay - MAY 4- 1994: #Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and #PLO’s Yasser Arafat sign “ #Gaza-Jericho” Accord - “Oslo II” Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU-y... Text peacemaker.un.org/sites/defaul... 1970 Ohio National Guardsmen kill 4 students at Kent State www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmd6...

#OnThisDay - MAY 3 1976: (50 years ago today) AIPAC’s annual Policy Conference. Among the speakers: Former Vice President, #Democratic Presidential nominee and then still-Senator, HUBERT HUMPHREY - praising and defending what #AIPAC did. Complete Text www2.mnhs.org/library/find...

Her name was Bernie. She was an IDF combat dog and a hero, who saved her entire unit. On Friday in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, Bernie climbed a staircase and encountered six Hezbollah terrorists lying in ambush with weapons and grenades ready. She bit one of them before being shot and killed.

#OnThisDay - MAY 2 1860: Theodor Herzl Born in Austria-Hungary “If you will it it is no dream…" 1968: Israel gets TV 1971: AIPAC 12th Policy Conference (350 attendees) 1978: #AIPAC's First Arms Sale Fight 1978: President Carter announces Holocaust Memorial open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

“Washington Views:” A Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors and Other Views - Not-least my own! (The perspective of a former long-time AIPAC Staffer) open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

#OnThisDay in 2011 (Late in the evening of May 1): President Obama informed the American people that US special forces had killed Osama Bin Laden hiding out in Pakistan - The man responsible for 9/11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYm... #BinLaden #September11 #AlQaeda @barackobama.bsky.social

#OnThisDay - APRIL 30 1945: Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide 1973 @time.com Magazine On "Israel at 25"... 1952: Diary of Anne Frank published in English... 1973 & 1974: President Nixon TV addresses on Watergate 1975: South Vietnam surrenders onthisdayisrael.substack.com/p/on-this-da...

Being a Jew in US politics today ...not just AIPAC. @nytimes.com "Excruciating and Agonizing’: A New Reality for Jewish Democrats - With Israel increasingly unpopular and antisemitism on the rise, Jewish politicians find themselves more and more under attack" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

Another day; another antisemitic attack in London. Once again in the Jewish neigbourhood of Golders Green www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live... #Antisemitism

#OnThisDay April 29...1945: US Forces Liberate Dachau....1956: Moshe Dayan Eulogy to Israeli Killed on Gaza Border...1970: Soviet Pilots flying over Egypt...1974: AIPAC celebrating 20 Years...1975: Fall South Vietnam...1994: Gaza-Jericho Agreement Initialled LINKS open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

Former Iranian Deputy FM Mohammad-Javad Larijani: Trump Staged the Assassination Attempt to Divert Attention from U.S. Failures in the Region; Being Killed “Like a Dog” Would Not Be Enough for “This Cannibal,” but This Was Fake

Flashback 30 years ago today.... #OnThisDay - April 28, 1996: President President Bill Clinton & #Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres appear jointly at #AIPAC's Annual Policy Conference (A month later: the Israeli Elections - which Benjamin Netanyahu narrowly won) www.c-span.org/program/whit...

Yesterday J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami had a piece on Substack "Calling Out What's Wrong Isn't Anti-Israel. It's Pro-Israel. Silence won't secure Israel's future. Honesty might." Below is the response that I posted substack.com/@michaellewi... @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social #JStreet

#OnThisDay - APRIL 27 2022: #AIPAC press release: "House Overwhelmingly Adopts Stop #Iranian Drones Act 1950: Britain Grants De Jure Recognition of #Israel (Also recognizes #Jordan’s Annexation of West Bank)... 2005: #Putin First Russian Head to Visit Israel... open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

I posted this piece a year ago as an #AIPAC Flashback. "In 2019: AIPAC CEO, Howard Kohr addressed the annual AIPAC Policy Conference focusing on "Critics and Detractors" of Israel and supporters of Israel - and how the Pro-Israel Movement needed to respond” open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

#OnThisDay - APRIL 25 1949: Israeli President Chaim Weizmann meets with President Truman 1980: Failed Iran Hostage Rescue Mission. President Carter addresses the Nation 1979: Israel and Egypt formally at Peace 1982: Israel Completes Sinai Withdrawal onthisdayisrael.substack.com/p/on-this-da...

“Washington Views:” A Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors and Other Views - Not-least my own! + Key "On This Day" Dates - The perspective of a former long-time AIPAC staffer - April 24, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

American state legislatures are moving to ban the term “West Bank” and mandate “Judea and Samaria” in official language. Let’s be clear: This imposes an extreme political and theological worldview. 1/2

#OnThisDay APRIL 24 1980: Failed US #Iran Hostage Rescue Mission (April 24/25)...8 Americans died. 1920: San Remo Conference-Britain Gets Palestine Mandate 1950: Jordan Annexes West Bank 1915: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Past #AIPAC Policy Conferences open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. n.pr/4u228c6

Really great, short, succinct assessment of a question that gets asked all the time without its core phrase ever really being truly defined.

J Street is proud to join 50+ civil rights, faith and community organizations – Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, and more – in a united demand to censure Rep. Randy Fine. Dehumanizing rhetoric in Congress must have consequences. #CensureFine #NoPlaceForHate @SpeakerJohnson @RepJeffries

#OnThisDay - APRIL 21 Today: Marking Yom Hazikaron - Israeli Memorial Day and then starting this evening, Yom haatzmaut (Israel Independence Day). 78 Years - and still many seeking the undoing of Israel’s existence. onthisdayisrael.substack.com/p/on-this-da.... #AIPAC #Israel

#OnThisDay - APRIL 20 As Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) begins this evening at sundown.... 1945: BBC report from the just-liberated Bergen-Belsen as survivors sing 'Hatikvah.' "... The day I reached Belsen concentration camp, the fifth day of liberation... www.youtube.com/watch?v=syUS...

President Trump on Israel. Posted on ‘Truth Social.’ "Whether people like Israel or not, they have proven to be a GREAT Ally of the United States..." I understand of course that in many eyes, this coming from President Trump, will just be an additional ‘Kiss of Death!’ (+ Cue conspiratorial claims!)

#OnThisDay - April 18 1983: Hezbollah Bomb US Embassy in Beirut 1988: US Bombs Iranian Oil Rigs & Warships 1978: Senate approves Panama Canal Treaty 1955: Albert Einstein Dies in Princeton... 1942 - James H. Doolittle led raid on Tokyo open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

"Washington Views:" A Weekly Focus on Critics, Detractors and Other Views - especially my own! This Week: J Street very much "In Focus!" - The perspective of a former AIPAC Staffer! open.substack.com/pub/michaell... @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social #JStreet @aipac1.bsky.social #AIPAC #Israel

#OnThisDay in 1945: A few days after the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp by American forces; Edward R. Murrow reported from Buchenwald www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhQ...

#OnThisDay in 1945: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen - just a few weeks after Anne Frank died at that camp. [A few days later, BBC broadcast from Bergen Belsen, including a Shabbat Service, where survivors sang Hatikvah] www.youtube.com/watch?v=syUS...

Marking 18 Years of J Street: "Chai?" - open.substack.com/pub/michaell... @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social #JStreet

J Street is urging Senators to support two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block pending U.S. arms sales to Israel, which are up for a vote on the Senate floor Wednesday. 1/4