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Mitchell Plitnick

Mitchell Plitnick is a journalist and blogger and former co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace and US director of B’Tselem.

Current Analysis

The Cold Realities of US Policy in Israel-Palestine

During the summertime war in Gaza, the two most progressive members of the US Senate stirred up controversy among their backers with expressions of uncritical support for Israel. At a town hall meeting, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the lone Senate independent, responded to a questioner that Israel had

Mitchell Plitnick • 15 min read

MER Article

"The Israel Lobby" in Perspective

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 82-page paper “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” has entered the canon of contemporary political culture in the United States. So much, positive and negative, has been written about the March 2006 essay that the phrase “the Mearsheimer-Walt argument” is now

Chris Toensing, Mitchell Plitnick • 19 min read