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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Sovereignty is for suckers

August 20, 2019

By Debra J. Saunders

Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, told the Review-Journal that her group opposes BDS even as she recognized Israel’s right to decide which foreign nationals can enter the country.

But, Soifer argued, “It is absolutely unprecedented for a U.S. president to publicly pressure” Israel to bar elected American officials.

Soifer was especially critical of Netanyahu for feeding “Trump’s ongoing efforts to politicize this relationship.” To her thinking, the Israeli prime minister “was playing to an audience of one, our tweeter in chief.”