Conflation of Jewish identity with Israel driving antisemitism, Jewish Council says in submission to royal commission

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA JUNE 19, 2026 07:41 A growing number of Jewish groups are pushing back against the new memorandum of understanding brokered between US…

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Many had objected to Obama’s deal in part because of its “sunset clauses” that would have phased out nuclear restrictions starting at the 10-year mark. A new poll by Israel’s Channel 12 found that 71% of Israelis don’t trust Trump to look out for their country’s interests in negotiations with Iran. Allen fended off allegations of antisemitism at the time and again during a 2014 hearing to confirm him for a position in North Carolina.

Furthermore, At least for now, however, their responses are more muted than when the same groups publicly opposed former president Barack Obama’s own Iran deal in 2015. Jewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal, more quietly than in 2015. Nathan Diament, head of the Orthodox Union, declared Obama’s deal “not kosher” in 2015.

In addition, JTA reached out to six other major Jewish federations that opposed the 2015 JCPOA, including Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, which was the first federation to oppose that deal and whose leader wrote, in 2021, “We were right.” CJP of Boston did not respond to a request for comment. JTA reached out Thursday to a wide range of Jewish groups that publicly opposed Obama’s Iran deal in 2015 to ask them their views on Trump’s. Many others, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, did not respond by press time.

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Many had objected to Obama’s deal in part because of its “sunset clauses” that would have phased out nuclear restrictions starting at the 10-year mark.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
A new poll by Israel’s Channel 12 found that 71% of Israelis don’t trust Trump to look out for their country’s interests in negotiations with Iran.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
Allen fended off allegations of antisemitism at the time and again during a 2014 hearing to confirm him for a position in North Carolina.
according to The Times of Israel
At least for now, however, their responses are more muted than when the same groups publicly opposed former president Barack Obama’s own Iran deal in 2015.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
Jewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal, more quietly than in 2015.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
Nathan Diament, head of the Orthodox Union, declared Obama’s deal “not kosher” in 2015.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
JTA reached out to six other major Jewish federations that opposed the 2015 JCPOA, including Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, which was the first federation to oppose that deal and whose leader wrote, in 2021, “We were right.” CJP of Boston did not respond to a request for comment.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
JTA reached out Thursday to a wide range of Jewish groups that publicly opposed Obama’s Iran deal in 2015 to ask them their views on Trump’s. Many others, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, did not respond by press time.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
The Israeli government, which sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to personally lobby Congress in 2015 to oppose Obama’s deal, is also strongly opposed to Trump’s - in part because it would require Israel to withdraw from fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
according to The Jerusalem Post (Front Page)
Trump nominated Allen to the Office of the Special Council — the agency that protects whistleblowers from unlawful conduct — in May 2025 but withdrew the nomination less than a week later.
according to The Times of Israel