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Aug 31, 2025, 10:21 AM

The times they are a-changin’ – can AIPAC adapt?

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks with Tucker Carlson during a Tucker Carlson Live Tour show at Desert Diamond Arena, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The age of 90% bipartisan pro-Israel votes is over. A new strategy is needed amid waning support from Democrats and Trump's MAGA base

Feb 27, 2025, 6:07 PM

Take a Ride on Bus Number 7 in Jerusalem: The National Bus Line

No other bus line in Jerusalem passes by all the important national institutions in the city I take Bus Number 7 home from Kibbutz Ramat Rachel and its swimming pools and workout rooms to my house on Bethlehem Road...

Oct 27, 2024, 3:36 PM

The End of the Roman Republic

What Trump’s electoral victory really means The time has come to face reality: Donald Trump is going to win reelection on November 5. As much as I wish it weren’t so and it pains me to say this, I feel...

Dec 25, 2023, 7:41 PM

Depressing Numbers

The Jewish world has not recovered yet to its pre-Holocaust numbers People love numbers. October 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza have produced, and indeed continue to produce, horrific numbers. Major news outlets need numbers to bolster their alleged...

Nov 2, 2023, 2:56 PM

Is History Repeating Itself?

Mass anti-Israel rallies on campuses and in big cities, anti-Israel petitions and Hamas-sympathetic letters signed by thousands of academics and public figures, calls to boycott Jewish businesses, major media outlets refusing to call Hamas terrorists, antisemitism in the Tik-Tok...

Dec 27, 2022, 7:17 PM

‘March 1968’ is a Polish movie. It’s also my story.

When it became impossible to keep living there, my family left. The one parting gift from Poland was making us give up our citizenship

Nov 22, 2022, 10:47 AM

Does Israel Need America’s Support?

A sizeable portion of Israel’s political right has united with a sizeable portion of the country’s political left. The issue: The United States’ support for the Jewish State. It now appears that both sides believe that Israel does not...

Jun 24, 2022, 11:58 AM

Reporting on a reporter’s death

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, on May 19, 2022. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Why did two major news organizations invest so much time and money into investigating Shireen Abu Akleh’s tragic death?

Apr 11, 2022, 3:01 PM

Erev Pesach 1943

April 19, 1943 Erev Pesach 1943 It is April 19, 1943, in Warsaw, in Nazi-occupied Poland. My parents, hiding out in the open and holding counterfeit documents, are traveling east – positions of the orderlies and cleaners appear available at a...

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About Me

Tom Sawicki is a retired journalist living in Jerusalem. He retired from the AIPAC Jerusalem Office in 2021 after 23 years, where he served as Director of Programming.