NEW YORK SUN
Obama’s Anti-Israel Drift
Editorial Board
February 26, 2016

President Obama’s signing statement in respect of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act will go down in history as a marker of the anti-Israel drift of the Democratic Party. The new law includes a section designed to deter boycotts and sanctions tied to trade with Israel. It puts America squarely against such boycotts and sanctions as a matter of policy and law. The law also makes it clear that it applies to trade with territories Israel controls. Naturally, President Obama objected. He signed the measure, which passed Congress by a wide margin and with bipartisan support (only one Republican voted against it at the House). But when he inked the measure, he put out a memorably obnoxious signing statement. He derided the law he’d just signed as “conflating” Israel and Israeli-controlled territories and suggested he might defy it. READ MORE