As in other movements, BDS activists are influenced by the wider currents in the US Left, though the active collaboration with Israel’s government by leading Democrats, including President Obama, creates a robust debate about how and whether to get involved in electoral politics. ..…

The winning candidate, Trump—who won more than 2 million fewer votes than the loser Clinton—is set to launch an all-out offensive against women, immigrants, workers, unions, people of color, LGBTQ people, and just about every other broad constituency of the broad left in this country. And leading..…

Ninety percent of the things Obama is doing, had they been done by Bush there would have been uproar. ... You know this vacuous slogan by Obama “Yes we can,” which even he in private admits is vacuous? ..…