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5 Takeaways From Jamaal Bowman’s Loss
The congressman, who lost to George Latimer, was the first “squad” member to fall, in a painful defeat for the Democratic left.
By Nicholas Fandos
The congressman, who lost to George Latimer, was the first “squad” member to fall, in a painful defeat for the Democratic left.
By Nicholas Fandos
Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a member of the House’s left-wing “squad,” was defeated by George Latimer in a race that exposed Democratic fissures.
By Nicholas Fandos
A pro-Israel political group has spent millions to defeat Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York.
By Michael Barbaro, Nicholas Fandos, Mooj Zadie, Jessica Cheung, Liz O. Baylen, Rachel Quester, Marion Lozano, Rowan Niemisto, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Chris Wood
The high stakes of Bowman’s primary make his carelessness especially frustrating.
By Michelle Goldberg
Mr. Bowman faces George Latimer in a House primary in New York that will test the party’s views on Israel and the strength of its left-wing faction.
By Claire Fahy
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders rallied with Jamaal Bowman on Saturday, three days before the primary on Tuesday.
By Nicholas Fandos and Claire Fahy
The deluge in outside spending, which also includes another $1 million from another pro-Israel group, threatens to sink Representative Jamaal Bowman.
By Nicholas Fandos
The accusations by Representative Jamaal Bowman infused an element of unpredictability into the final days of a contest that has largely been defined by differences over the war in Gaza.
By Nicholas Fandos
Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York told members of the socialist group that his views on Israel aligned with theirs, and insisted that he never quit the group, despite earlier claims.
By Nicholas Fandos
Mondaire Jones, a fellow Black progressive who entered Congress with Mr. Bowman after the 2020 election, is endorsing Mr. Bowman’s challenger, George Latimer.
By Nicholas Fandos
Robert O’Brien, one of Donald Trump’s closest foreign policy advisers, said he was there as a “private citizen.”
By Jonathan Swan
A rancorous clash between Representative Jamaal Bowman and his Democratic opponent, George Latimer, exposed sharp divisions in their party.
By Nicholas Fandos
The groups have raised millions to challenge candidates they see as not sufficiently pro-Israel, but have spent little as public opinion has shifted.
By Jonathan Weisman
The center-left Jewish lobby group has lost some staff members and donors who worry the organization has not been quick enough to call for a cease-fire and is alienating younger generations.
By Marc Tracy
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AIPAC, long influential with both parties in Washington, is drawing criticism from Democrats for trying to defeat incumbents while it struggles to move aid for Israel through Congress.
By Kate Kelly and Kenneth P. Vogel
The Biden administration repeated its warning that Israel should not attack the city of Rafah, the southernmost city in the enclave, without protections for the more than a million people sheltering there.
By Peter Baker and Alan Yuhas
Demonstrators marched to the Manhattan headquarters of the lobbying group AIPAC, then to the offices of senators who have accepted donations from the group, where some were arrested.
By Hurubie Meko and Olivia Bensimon
The Friends Committee, a Quaker lobbying group, has been pushing in Washington for a cease-fire, going up against more powerful and better-funded groups backing Israel.
By Kate Kelly
Wesley Bell, a leader in the progressive prosecutors movement, will take on Representative Cori Bush of Missouri, in St. Louis.
By Jonathan Weisman
Members of Congress, and candidates for their seats, have been drawn into bitter political clashes over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Ross Barkan
Groups aligned with AIPAC are likely to shower next year’s Democratic primaries with campaign cash. One key target: Representative Ilhan Omar.
By Jonathan Weisman and Kate Kelly
George Latimer, the Westchester County executive, told The New York Times he would run against Jamaal Bowman, a rising star of the Democratic left, next year.
By Nicholas Fandos
Representative Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, who joined calls for a cease-fire, has become one of several progressive lawmakers facing new pressure from primary challengers.
By Jonathan Weisman
A primary on Tuesday in suburban Maryland is the latest where pro-Israel groups have stepped in to try to defeat a candidate who doesn’t conform to their views.
By Jonathan Weisman
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The pro-Israel group, which is involved with direct political spending this year for the first time, has opposed progressive candidates backed by Mr. Sanders.
By Shane Goldmacher
After the president enlists Benjamin Netanyahu to deny entry to two Muslim members of Congress, both parties warn that bipartisan support for Israel is in danger.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The main author of the resolution that limited a president’s ability to wage war, he also made overtures to the Arab world and earned the opposition of the pro-Israel lobby.
By Katharine Q. Seelye
The writers of a book about United States policy in the Middle East take issue with an Op-Ed article.
The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill.
By Nathan Thrall
The president’s decision was a valuable political gift to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a few weeks before he faces voters in Israel in a closely fought election.
By Mark Landler and David M. Halbfinger
Everyone is getting what they want, at the expense of the Jewish state.
By Thomas L. Friedman
Israel and Hamas exchanged fire after a rocket struck near Tel Aviv. The battle created a political crisis for Israel’s prime minister but no deaths were reported.
By Isabel Kershner
With an election weeks away, the Israeli leader’s trip to Washington was supposed to show off his statesmanship. But controversy followed him here.
By David M. Halbfinger
On the surface, the annual Aipac conference looks relatively unchanged. But recent actions by President Trump and rising criticism of Israel on the left are taking a toll.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Critics say that the pro-Israel group is too powerful and too far to the right. Neither is true.
By Mark Horowitz
At 23, Elizabeth Pipko is better known as a model than a political operative, if she’s known at all. But through the president, she has become the face of a push to woo Jews to the Republican Party.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Her words were bad. The reaction was worse.
By Michelle Goldberg
Readers discuss comments by Representative Ilhan Omar, the influence of a pro-Israel lobbying group and divisions within the Democratic Party.
The congresswoman and I have a lot in common — but not her stance on Israel.
By Thomas L. Friedman
The representative’s jab that money drives support for Israel earned her reproach, but it also revived a fraught debate in Washington over the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
An increasingly desperate Israeli prime minister has aggravated already fraught relations between Israel and Jews in the diaspora.
By David M. Halbfinger
The Democratic Party has a long history of staunchly supporting Israel, but some new lawmakers are raising questions about the future of this stance.
Criticisms of Israel? No, not necessarily. A congresswoman’s tweets? Yes.
By David Leonhardt
Left-wing anti-Semitism is a gift to the right.
By Michelle Goldberg
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The implication by Ms. Omar, a freshman representative from Minnesota, that Jewish money is driving pro-Israel sentiments drew fierce rebukes, including from fellow Democrats.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Evangelicals who see the president as a successor to an ancient Persian king, Cyrus, are part of an old American tradition.
By Samuel Goldman
Facing bribery allegations in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Trump may be a chance to show voters, contemplating a future without him, that he is indispensable.
By David M. Halbfinger
Ms. Haley, the American envoy to the United Nations, said the U.S. would never close its doors to foreigners fleeing persecution, even as she defended the Trump administration’s travel ban.
By Somini Sengupta
The absence of the president and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the high-profile conference spoke to the fluidity of the nations’ relationship.
By Mark Landler
The truth is that Israel is going to love President Trump as much as American Jews will hate him.
By Shmuel Rosner
Dani Dayan, Israel’s consul general in New York, discusses his differences with Benjamin Netanyahu, his work with United States groups and the 2016 election.
By Carol Giacomo
The New York Observer’s editor helped the paper’s owner, Jared Kushner, write an important speech for his father-in-law — who happens to be the Republican presidential front-runner.
By Nick Corasaniti and Maggie Haberman
Arizona held primaries, five other states had caucuses, and several candidates made stops in the nation’s capital.
The personal stories candidates told at Monday’s conference shed light on their personalities.
By Elizabeth Williamson
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Mr. Sanders was the only presidential candidate who spoke any real truth about the conflict on Monday.
By Carol Giacomo
Here’s what Donald Trump said on Monday at the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C.
By Elizabeth Williamson
Mr. Trump’s whirlwind day in Washington was part of his effort to demonstrate that he is running a serious presidential campaign.
By Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman
Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump and other presidential candidates addressed a conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The candidates previewed for an influential pro-Israel audience a debate on foreign policy that could play out this fall if they face each other in the general election.
By Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman
Donald J. Trump, speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, offered harsh criticism of the Iranian nuclear deal and the United Nations.
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Mr. Trump expressed his solidarity with Israel in passionate terms, promising a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that as president he would always stand up for it against its enemies in the Middle East.
By Alan Rappeport
The senator welcomed Mr. Trump to Washington on Monday with a blistering assault on his character and business record while urging Democrats to unite against him.
By Alan Rappeport
Speaking to the annual policy meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington on Monday, Mrs. Clinton said that “America can’t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel’s security and survival.”
By REUTERS
Hillary Clinton pledged to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that she would stand unyieldingly with Israel and warned that her potential Republican rival, Donald J. Trump, would be an unreliable partner for one of America’s closest allies.
By Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman
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Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump will be in Washington on Monday, addressing the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. That’s about where the similarities in their days will end.
By Maggie Haberman
Donald J. Trump, whose disregard for the sensitivities of various religious and ethnic groups has hit a nerve among Jewish organizations, faces a difficult sell Monday.
By Jonathan Mahler
Rabbis and others from across the country are planning to attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee event in Washington, and some are organizing a walkout during Donald J. Trump’s speech to protest views that they say conflict with Jewish values.
By Alan Rappeport
Lindsey Graham said that deciding between Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas amounted to selecting whether to be “shot or poisoned.” Now, he has made his choice.
By Matt Flegenheimer and Emmarie Huetteman
With only one of the three candidates willing to attend, Fox News canceled its next Republican debate, scheduled for Monday in Salt Lake City. Donald J. Trump cited a previous commitment in pulling out, and John Kasich followed by saying he also would not come to the event unless Mr. Trump changed his mind.
By Nick Corasaniti
The campaign by the prime minister and pro-Israel groups against the nuclear accord with Iran has left raw feelings.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s failure to block the Iran deal, after spending nearly $30 million to defeat it, raises questions about whether its power has now been diminished.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
A disaster has been averted now that the Iran nuclear deal is unstoppable. But the disaster of implacable Republican hostility persists.
By Roger Cohen
Rep. Jerrold Nadler was right about Iraq. That should give some weight to his support for the Iran deal.
By Carol Giacomo
His proposal calls for new negotiations, new demands and, effectively, a pre-endorsement for war.
By Carol Giacomo
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The efforts represent a gritty summertime fight unusual in the annals of foreign policy debates with major implications for President Obama’s legacy.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not directly advise visiting Republican members of Congress how to vote on the Iran nuclear deal, the leader of the delegation told reporters on Thursday.
By Jodi Rudoren
The passions of big contributors — and their ability to change a candidate’s fortunes — are a keenly felt undercurrent to the debate over the fate of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
By Jonathan Weisman and Nicholas Confessore
Norm Coleman, Joseph I. Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Saxby Chambliss have founded a group that is spending $6.2 million to runs ads in nine states against President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
By Alan Rappeport and Maggie Haberman
The president accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of spending millions on advertising to try to defeat the accord, as well as spreading misinformation about it.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has formed a tax-exempt lobbying group with the sole mission of educating the public “about the dangers of the proposed Iran deal.”
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Benjamin Netanyahu’s problem in the United States isn’t liberal Jews; it’s everyone else.
By Jason Horowitz
Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory, he is still out of the good graces of the Obama administration, which has had to reassess its policy toward Israel.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Many in Iran hope that a blunt speech to Congress by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel would turn American public opinion against him.
By Thomas Erdbrink
President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel offered divergent approaches to Iran but tried to cool down the personal nature of any dispute.
By Peter Baker
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Samantha Power, the American ambassador to the United Nations, and Susan E. Rice, the national security official, will address a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
The remarks by Susan E. Rice, the national security adviser, were the administration’s strongest public rebuke since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel agreed to speak to Congress.
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
What’s behind the coming address to Congress by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel?
By Thomas L. Friedman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was invited to address a joint meeting of Congress next month, but it looks as though he’ll be coming later than expected.
By Alan Rappeport
The major coalition of Jewish groups plans to vote on whether to admit the dovish organization J Street, which says it is pro-Israel and pro-peace but has been critical of some Israeli policies.
By Michael Paulson
Hard power may not be what the United States is about anymore. But American soft power ruled the world at the annual Academy Awards.
By Serge Schmemann
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