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New Phone Number

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:07am

Please note that IPF's phone number has changed. We can now be reached at 212-354-1812. 

We will not stand for this

By Israel Policy Forum
Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 7:46pm

Israel Policy Forum is shocked and appalled by the column published in the Atlanta Jewish Times by its owner and publisher Andrew Adler calling for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obl

Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer on 'Reviving the Peace Process' (TRANSCRIPT)

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 10:13am
In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.

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Chas Freeman

Firestorm As Freeman "Withdrawal" Explodes in MSM

By MJ Rosenberg
former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 8:13am

Until today the story of the "pro-Israel" right's efforts (ultimately successful) to keep a critic of Israel's policies out of the National Intelligence Council has been confined to the blogosphere. As is usually the case with this subject, the so-called MSM is afraid to touch this issue with a ten foot pole. Of course, that is what the whole Freeman case was about. Worse than that, it is about the fact that the President is prevented from appointing a distinguished public servant to an intelligence post because he is critical of Israeli policies.

Freeman Opponents Pyrrhic Victory

By MJ Rosenberg
former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 8:07am

The campaign to defeat Chas Freeman's appointment as chair of the National Intelligence Council succeeded. He withdrew his name yesterday.

But it may come at a cost. The perception, almost universally held, that he was brought down because he is a strong and vocal opponent of Israel's West Bank and settlement policies is, not good for the Jewish community and the pro-Israel community in particular.

What’s Being Talked About?

By The Pulse
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:16pm

In Salon, Glenn Greenwald has an interesting piece dissecting the anti-Semitism and anti-Israel discussion. And, Jeffrey Goldberg responds

Ben Smith over at Politico discusses the possibility of Chas Freeman, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, becoming the head of the National Intelligence Council

At The Plank, Michael Crowley talks about the future role of Dennis Ross in the Obama administration

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