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All content by Ron Kampeas

Steny Hoyer has a tough job: Uniting Democrats on Israel

Ron Kampeas
Published August 9, 2019

El Paso needs a 9/11-style response to fight white supremacists, Jewish security officials say

Ron Kampeas
Published August 9, 2019
Mohammed Ahmad, left, and Eran Nissan speak at a New Voices Leadership event on Capitol Hill, July 11, 2019. (Ron Kampeas)

Palestinian and Israeli discovered a shared past when they met as Washington interns

Ron Kampeas
Published August 7, 2019

Amid Israel tensions for Democrats, Steny Hoyer to lead larger than usual Israel tour

Ron Kampeas
Published August 6, 2019

Meet the ‘Anti-Squad’: Rep. Elissa Slotkin offers Democrats a path of moderation

Ron Kampeas
Published August 5, 2019

Detroit Jews are caught between a rock named Trump and a hard choice among Democrats

Ron Kampeas
Published August 2, 2019

Democrats get personal on second night of debates, but once again scorch Trump for racism

Ron Kampeas
Published July 31, 2019
Jefferson Henry Kraft is (probably) the youngest correspondent in the Democratic debate spin room in Detroit on July 20, 2019. Photo: Ron Kampeas

The youngest correspondent covering the debates is a 10-year-old Jewish kid

Ron Kampeas
Published July 30, 2019
A view inside the U.S. House of Representatives in 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

4 takeaways from the House’s big vote against the Israel boycott movement

Ron Kampeas
Published July 26, 2019

John Lewis backs the right to boycott — even though he opposes BDS

Ron Kampeas
Published July 26, 2019
A screenshot of C-Span at the end of a tally of a U.S. House of Representatives vote to condemn the boycott Israel movement on July 23, 2019.

House overwhelmingly condemns BDS

Ron Kampeas
Published July 23, 2019

Trump peace envoy: Palestinians do not have a ‘right’ to a Jerusalem capital

Ron Kampeas
Published July 23, 2019

Congress tackles the anti-Israel boycott, but bipartisanship is fleeting

Ron Kampeas
Published July 19, 2019

Rabbinical Council of America condemns racism at ‘highest levels of government’

Ron Kampeas
Published July 19, 2019

Trump administration offers $7m for information leading to the arrest of AMIA bombing suspect

Ron Kampeas
Published July 19, 2019

DC suburb will screen anti-Israel film narrated by Roger Waters

Ron Kampeas
Published July 12, 2019

Top US official marks AMIA anniversary with pledge to intensify pressure on Hezbollah, Iran

Ron Kampeas
Published July 12, 2019

Trump and Netanyahu talk Iran

Ron Kampeas
Published July 11, 2019

Biden says he would keep US-Israel relationship ‘ironclad’ and rejoin the Iran deal as president

Ron Kampeas
Published July 11, 2019

This physician provides abortions and brit milahs. She says her Jewish values drive both practices.

Ron Kampeas
Published July 11, 2019

Senators introduce bill to pay for Holocaust education programs in schools

Ron Kampeas
Published July 11, 2019

Bernie Sanders is proud to list Haim Saban as an ‘anti-endorsement’

Ron Kampeas
Published July 10, 2019

Tom Steyer launches presidential bid noting Jewish father’s career as Nuremberg prosecutor

Ron Kampeas
Published July 9, 2019
Elan Carr, shown in April 2019, said in an interview in Israel, "We live in a time of danger." (Screenshot from C-Span) 

Department of Justice to convene summit on fighting anti-Semitism

Ron Kampeas
Published July 8, 2019
Josh Block, Israel Project CEO, speaks on on PBS News Hour on March 7, 2019. (PBS News Hour/Screenshot) 

The Israel Project board meeting to assess financial crisis ends inconclusively

Ron Kampeas
Published July 8, 2019
Pastor John Hagee shaking hands with Vice President Mike Pence at the Christians United for Israel annual conference on July 17 2017. (Kasim Hafeez/CUFI) 

Trump sending its top officials to speak to pro-Israel evangelicals conference

Ron Kampeas
Published July 8, 2019

The Israel Project chairman says reports of its demise are premature. An insider says its entire staff was laid off.

Ron Kampeas
Published July 4, 2019

Virginian GOP pol takes down ‘concentration camp’ joke after Jewish Democrat complains

Ron Kampeas
Published July 1, 2019

The Israel Project’s CEO is leaving amid advocacy group’s fundraising difficulties

Ron Kampeas
Published July 1, 2019

Second Democratic debate has a dramatic moment about race; foreign policy barely features

Ron Kampeas
Published June 27, 2019

Cory Booker was only Democrat at first debate who didn’t commit to rejoining Iran deal

Ron Kampeas
Published June 26, 2019
Jason Greenblatt, the top White House Middle East peace negotiator, second from left, organizes shacharit services at Bahrain’s synagogue on June 26, 2019. (Jason Greenblatt/Twitter)

Jared Kushner’s peace conference brings a minyan to 19th-century Bahrain synagogue

Ron Kampeas
Published June 26, 2019

Jared Kushner launches Bahrain workshop on economic plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Ron Kampeas
Published June 25, 2019

Iran says it will abandon more nuclear deal commitments and Trump threatens ‘obliteration’

Ron Kampeas
Published June 25, 2019

Yair Netanyahu stars at pro-Trump student group’s Jewish leadership conference

Ron Kampeas
Published June 25, 2019

US Holocaust Museum reiterates its rejection of analogies with the Holocaust

Ron Kampeas
Published June 24, 2019

White House unveils economic portion of peace plan, including portions that will unsettle Netanyahu

Ron Kampeas
Published June 22, 2019

Here’s what’s on the agenda at Jared Kushner’s Bahrain conference

Ron Kampeas
Published June 21, 2019

Here’s what Trump officials and supporters are saying to critics of his Iran policy

Ron Kampeas
Published June 20, 2019

FBI brings together Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders to share security information

Ron Kampeas
Published June 19, 2019

Jared Kushner’s Bahrain peace summit is for the Israelis and Palestinians — but neither will be there

Ron Kampeas
Published June 18, 2019

This Jewish lawyer wants to break the back of the violent white nationalist movement

Ron Kampeas
Published June 17, 2019

Liberal pro-Israel groups accuse Israeli envoy of politicizing US support of Israel

Ron Kampeas
Published June 14, 2019

Senate unanimously condemns anti-Semitism

Ron Kampeas
Published June 14, 2019

US, Argentina convene summit on Hezbollah threat ahead of AMIA attack’s 25th anniversary

Ron Kampeas
Published June 12, 2019

More than half of House Democrats slam any Israeli-Palestinian plan that does not include 2 states

Ron Kampeas
Published June 12, 2019

Klobuchar meets Jewish Democratic funders

Ron Kampeas
Published June 12, 2019

Congress takes steps to increase security funding for nonprofits

Ron Kampeas
Published June 12, 2019

David Friedman gave Netanyahu half a nod for West Bank annexation. What happens next?

Ron Kampeas
Published June 11, 2019

DC suburb cancels screening of anti-Israel film

Ron Kampeas
Published June 11, 2019

Buttigieg: Netanyahu is ‘turning away from peace’

Ron Kampeas
Published June 11, 2019

Sanders, Warren introduce resolution decrying Israeli annexation plans

Ron Kampeas
Published June 6, 2019

AIPAC and J Street support bipartisan effort to restore funds for Israeli-Palestinian peace dialogue

Ron Kampeas
Published June 6, 2019

Volkswagen’s CEO is alarmed by rise of the extreme right. He’s empowered ADL to lead anti-Semitism fight in Europe.

Ron Kampeas
Published June 5, 2019

13 Democratic candidates delivered videos to this Jewish conference. The different messages hint at what’s to come.

Ron Kampeas
Published June 4, 2019

Volkswagen funds ADL office in Germany for combating anti-Semitism

Ron Kampeas
Published June 4, 2019

Volkswagen funds ADL office in Germany for combating anti-Semitism

Ron Kampeas
Published June 4, 2019
Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., flanked by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., launches the black-Jewish caucus at the annual American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington D.C. on June 3, 2019. (AJC)

Lawmakers launch congressional black-Jewish caucus

Ron Kampeas
Published June 3, 2019

Rep. Josh Gottheimer pushes bipartisanship in a polarized landscape

Ron Kampeas
Published May 24, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, speaks at the Reform movement’s Consultation on Conscience in Washington, May 21, 2019. (Courtesy of the Religious Action Center)

It’s a Democratic lovefest at a Reform movement policy conference

Ron Kampeas
Published May 21, 2019
Jill Cooper Udall leads a seder aboard a U.S. military aircraft 30,000 feet over Vietnam, April 19, 2019. (Courtesy of Cooper Udall)

This Jewish woman organized a seder for 9 senators at 30,000 feet over Vietnam

Ron Kampeas
Published May 20, 2019

Al Sharpton admits to using ‘cheap’ rhetoric about Jews

Ron Kampeas
Published May 20, 2019

Democrats say the GOP refuses to acknowledge anti-Semitism on the far right

Ron Kampeas
Published May 17, 2019

Is Iran the new Iraq? Here are the similarities — and big differences

Ron Kampeas
Published May 15, 2019

NYU chaplain to be first chief rabbi of the United Arab Emirates

Ron Kampeas
Published May 14, 2019

Is the Trump administration sending mixed signals on the Iran deal?

Ron Kampeas
Published May 10, 2019

Anti-Zionist imam delivers opening prayers in the US House of Representatives

Ron Kampeas
Published May 10, 2019

With Jerusalem embassy in place, Trump administration ends waiver

Ron Kampeas
Published May 8, 2019

How Trump’s ‘religious freedom’ changes are heartening some Jews and rattling others

Ron Kampeas
Published May 7, 2019

Bipartisan slate of senators introduce resolution condemning anti-Semitsm

Ron Kampeas
Published May 5, 2019

Trump administration ‘stands with Israel’ in face of rocket attacks

Ron Kampeas
Published May 5, 2019
Jared Kushner speaks at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy event in Washington, D.C. on May 2, 2019. (TWI/Lloyd Wolf) 

Jared Kushner explains why US doesn’t want to use the term ‘two states’

Ron Kampeas
Published May 3, 2019

US senators cite rising threats to religious institutions in seeking more money for nonprofits’ security

Ron Kampeas
Published May 2, 2019

This 2020 presidential candidate is the son of a Holocaust survivor

Ron Kampeas
Published May 2, 2019

As survivors dwindle, US still pursues Holocaust restitution

Ron Kampeas
Published May 1, 2019

New York Times to discipline editor who OK’ed anti-Semitic cartoon

Ron Kampeas
Published May 1, 2019
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld pose before receiving an award from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., April 29, 2019. (Ron Kampeas)

Famed Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: It feels like the 1930s

Ron Kampeas
Published April 30, 2019
Lori Gilbert-Kaye was killed in the shooting at the Chabad of Poway shooting. (Courtesy of Ariella Lee) 

Lori Gilbert-Kaye, slain in Poway synagogue attack, mourned by Jewish groups

Ron Kampeas
Published April 29, 2019
Joe Biden in his campaign announcement video, released April 25, 2019. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Biden makes Trump’s Charlottesville reaction the center of his campaign launch

Ron Kampeas
Published April 25, 2019

5 Jewish things to know about Joe Biden

Ron Kampeas
Published April 24, 2019

AIPAC pushes back after Bernie Sanders calls Netanyahu government ‘racist’

Ron Kampeas
Published April 23, 2019

Two-state solution negotiations ‘failed,’ Jared Kushner says

Ron Kampeas
Published April 23, 2019

Bernie Sanders says he is ‘100% pro-Israel,’ but blasts its ‘racist’ government

Ron Kampeas
Published April 23, 2019

Here’s how Jewish groups are planning for the next Pittsburgh

Ron Kampeas
Published April 17, 2019

Trump says ‘anti-Semitic’ Ilhan Omar ‘controls’ Pelosi

Ron Kampeas
Published April 15, 2019
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the U.S. House of representatives meets in London with Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, far right, on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Photo: Twitter

Pelosi makes fight against anti-Semitism on the left a centerpiece of her London visit

Ron Kampeas
Published April 15, 2019

White House invites Jewish leaders over for a talk

Ron Kampeas
Published April 12, 2019

Some of Israel’s best American Jewish friends are worried about Netanyahu’s promise to annex the West Bank

Ron Kampeas
Published April 12, 2019

Trump says Israelis should be immune from International Criminal Court prosecution

Ron Kampeas
Published April 12, 2019

Nine Jewish groups ask Trump to oppose Netanyahu bids to annex territory

Ron Kampeas
Published April 12, 2019
Reps. Nita Lowey and Eliot Engel of New York speak to AIPAC's annual policy conference on March 25, 2019. (AIPAC) 

Four Jewish House Democrats known for AIPAC ties warn Israel not to annex West Bank territory

Ron Kampeas
Published April 12, 2019

Netanyahu’s re-election reveals sharpening Israel divide between Republicans and Democrats

Ron Kampeas
Published April 10, 2019

Netanyahu has become an issue in the US presidential campaign

Ron Kampeas
Published April 9, 2019

It’s a Las Vegas honeymoon, of sorts, for Trump and Republican Jews

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2019

Harry Reid says stopping anti-Semitism is more important than playing the blame game

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2019

Trump: Netanyahu and Gantz are ‘two good people’

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2019
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., left, speaks with Sigal Chattah, right, the chairwoman of the Nevada chapter of the Israeli-American Civic Action Network, at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas on April 6, 2019. Photo: Dillon Hosier

Republican senators introduce resolution favoring protections for Israeli Americans

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2019

Trump gets hero’s welcome at RJC conference — despite awkward moments

Ron Kampeas
Published April 6, 2019

Did Homeland Security just hurt or help America’s ability to track domestic terrorism? It’s complicated.

Ron Kampeas
Published April 5, 2019

Ilhan Omar’s communications director is Jewish. Here’s how he’s helping her weather the firestorm.

Ron Kampeas
Published April 1, 2019
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