Tag Archives: Barack Obama

“Ben Rhodes, Tommy Vietor shaped the story of the Iran nuclear deal. Now they’re trying to turn Democrats away from Israel”

JEWISH INSIDER Former Obama staffers turned podcasters reemerge to lead anti-Israel chorus Danielle Cohen-Kanik July 29, 2025 Former Obama administration officials Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor took to social media over the weekend to attack Israel and slam the American … Continue reading

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Badran: “Rising up from his political grave, the ex-president cements a U.S. partnership with Iran in Lebanon while Israel meekly gives up its gains”

TABLET MAG Obama Plays a Dead Man’s Hand in Lebanon, and Wins Tony Badran November 27, 2024 Barely three weeks ago, Barack Obama’s legacy was in tatters. His party was roundly defeated in the election, after he personally engineered the … Continue reading

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How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics

TABLET MAG He the People Lee Smith July 29, 2024 The people have spoken, and last week former President Barack Obama called Vice President Kamala Harris to tell her. His endorsement of her run for the presidency was captured in … Continue reading

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Obama evaded the Nation of Islam leader’s core antisemitic ideology.

JNS Obama’s non-responses to black antisemitism Eunice G. Pollack August 27, 2023 In his 2017 book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama and a Tablet interview this month, historian David Garrow revealed that Obama refused to take a stand … Continue reading

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Obamas former white girlfriend: “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism”

TABLET MAGAZINE The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow David Samuels August 2, 2023 There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account … Continue reading

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The downfall of the White House’s favorite Iran whisperer is a mystery wrapped inside a cover-up

TABLET MAG What Happened to Robert Malley? Lee Smith July 23, 2023 In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he … Continue reading

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“The American Left has appeased Russian autocrats”

TOWN HALL Russian Appeasement Was a Left-Wing Monopoly by Victor Davis Hanson February 3, 2022 One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama Administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents. The first was the … Continue reading

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Memo to Biden: “If the free world wants to stand on the right side of history, they should support the Iranian people who have been fighting for their freedom for the last 43 years”

GATESTONE Like Obama, Biden Silent on Iran Mullahs Killing Peaceful Protesters by Majid Rafizadeh December 4, 2021 The Biden administration appears to be repeating the Obama Administration policy of choosing to be silent in the face of the Iranian regime’s … Continue reading

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“In the Middle East, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board”

TABLET MAG The Realignment by Michael Doran and Tony Badran May 10, 2021 On Sunday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan phoned his Israeli counterpart and turned back the hands of time. According to the American readout of the conversation, Sullivan called … Continue reading

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“Given the Biden administration’s latest moves, Israel needs to conceive and implement a strategy to bypass the US and achieve its goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Iran – where Biden and Israel’s legal fraternity converge by Caroline Glick April 30, 2021 …Like the Obama administration before it, the Biden administration is ideologically committed to realigning US policy towards Iran and … Continue reading

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