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Joel Laitman

Sep 9, 2024, 11:02 PM

Netanyahu’s Hostage Conditions Are Part of a Larger Bow to the Extreme Right

The announcement on September 1, 2024 that the Israeli army had recovered the bodies of six hostages including the American Israeli Hersh Goldberg Polin, whose parents only a few weeks ago captured the hearts of many Americans with their...

Aug 7, 2023, 4:51 PM

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The largest ‘pro-Israel’ lobby in the US is hurting Israeli democracy

Then-US vice president Mike Pence speaks at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference at Washington Convention Center, on March 5, 2018, in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

On the consequences of AIPAC's systematic stifling of any and all criticism of Israel in the US Congress

About Me

Joel Laitman is a former partner at the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, with degrees from Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Georgetown University Law Center.