Obama tries to scrub Bush White House and State Department references to 'Jerusalem, Israel'

Our friends the Zivotofsky's (yes, of course Mrs. Carl and I know them) are sure making life miserable for the Obama administration.

You will recall that last week I reported that the White House had scrubbed clean references on its own website to "Jerusalem, Israel," in preparation for the Supreme Court hearing in Zivotofsky v. Clinton. Now, Omri Ceren reports in Commentary that the White House

More than just stupidity?

This is the first live post of the weekend. If you followed me on Twitter, you would know already that the reason for this is that I took the wrong computer to the hospital on Saturday night.

You will recall that this past week I covered the story of the White House 'cleansing' its web site from references to Jerusalem, Israel.

I treated that story as yet another instance of the rank amateurism

Ethnic cleansing, an Obamanation

In an earlier post, I reported that the White House had cleansed its web site from pictures referencing "Jerusalem, Israel."

That post only showed one altered picture. Here is a video with several more.

Let's go to the videotape (the person who sent this did not give me a name so I cannot give them a hat tip).

Say it ain't so: AJC won't get involved in arguing that Jerusalem is Israel's capital

I have discussed the Zivotofsky case, in which Jerusalem-born 9-year old Menachem Zivotofsky seeks to exercise his right to have Israel listed as his country of birth on his US passport, several times, most recently here.Many American Jewish organizations are filing amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs, which are due this week. Shockingly, the American Jewish Committee is not only filing a

Are you or your child an American citizen born in Jerusalem

I received the following via email.July 27,2011 25 Tammuz 5771 - LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD - on behalf of American citizens born in Jerusalem who are denied the right to have their country of birth – ISRAEL – listed as their place of birth on their U.S. passports. The case of