IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
The very mention of Israel at Hillary Clinton’s initial campaign events for president was controversial among her aides, who feared it might stir unwanted controversy with her party base, according to internal correspondence released by Wikileaks.
on October 18, 2016
On September 19 — hours before Linden, New Jersey, police arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami in connection to a bomb attack that injured 29 people in New York City two days earlier — Donald Trump went on Fox News to make the case for religious profiling.
on September 30, 2016
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would support an Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank and would likely back a complete annexation if Israel deems it necessary, a top aide to the candidate told Haaretz in an interview published Thursday.
on June 24, 2016
Sen. Bernie Sanders was given unprecedented say over the Democratic Party platform Monday in a move party leaders hope will soothe a bitter split with backers of the longshot challenger to Hillary Clinton — and Sanders immediately used his new power to name a well-known advocate for Palestinian rights to help draft Democratic policy.
on May 23, 2016
Five days before the most Jewish state in the union held its primary, Wolf Blitzer questioned Bernie Sanders’s commitment to Israeli security. The average politician would not have seen this as an opportunity to attack his or her opponent for caring too little about Palestinian suffering. But Vermont’s socialist senator is not your average politician.
on May 20, 2016
Rarely — if ever — has a presidential candidate been so publicly critical of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians as Sen. Bernie Sanders was last week during the CNN Democratic primary debate in Brooklyn. Media outlets seized the moment, with headlines such as “Bernie Sanders smashes the Israel status quo,” “Bernie Sanders just shattered an American taboo on Israel” and “Why Does Bernie Sanders hate Israel?”
on April 22, 2016
Fact Sheets
Tonight, Republican presidential candidates will meet for their fifth debate, at The Venetian Las Vegas, a hotel and casino owned by right-wing billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The IMEU offers the following list of some of the most offensive and egregious statements that Adelson has made about Palestinians, Israel, and US foreign policy over the last few years.
on December 15, 2015
At a Bernie Sanders rally in Boston on Saturday, October 3, members of our group, Boston Students for Justice in Palestine, were threatened with arrest after the campaign staff had requested the removal of a banner that read "Will Ya #FeelTheBern 4 Palestine??!" The video of the incident was posted online and immediately began attracting media attention.
on October 13, 2015
The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday that it had apologized to a group of pro-Palestine college students who were threatened with arrest Saturday night for displaying a sign in an overflow area at a large rally in Boston.
on October 6, 2015