From 2013 to 2017, I served as a White House appointee to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

When the Israeli Knesset passed its 2025 budget last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government breathed a sigh of relief. Had the budget not been approved by March 31, the Knesset would’ve been automatically disbanded, leading to new elections.

President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders and actions have generated significant attention.

President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans, and pro-Israel groups, like the Anti-Defamation League, have declared war on freedom of speech and assembly and the very idea of the university.

When I first heard President Donald Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” scheme, it brought back memories of Palestinian hopes three decades ago during the heyday of the Oslo Accords.

This past week began on a deeply disturbing note. Elon Musk reposted on X (formerly Twitter) a dangerously false attack on more than a dozen American entities who had ceived USAID or State Department grants over the past decade.

A combination of pro-Israel advocacy groups and political action committees, including right-wing Christian fundamentalists, neoconservative hawks and weak-kneed liberals, have not only enabled Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians, they have done so much more.• They h

My initial response to President Donald Trump’s proposals for Gaza was to dismiss them as bizarre, detached from reality, dangerously provocative, illegal, and callously insensitive to Palestinian humanity.His proposals are, in fact, all of the above.

President Donald Trump’s “shock and awe” assault on virtually every major institution in Washington has been, to a degree, successful.