“We call on members of Congress to demand the US government place sanctions on illegal Israeli settlers and the Israeli military,” said the Council on American-Islamic Relations and CAIR-Chicago.

Netanyahu cast doubt on accounts of Jewish attacks on diplomats, priests and journalists over the weekend. With the election a week away, coalition calculations are taking precedence

Mike Huckabee’s family is offering trips to Israel so tourists can ‘hear from top officials,’ even though he’s the ambassador. Meanwhile, he’s done little for U.S. victims of Israeli violence.

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El brutal ataque a la fotoperiodista Heidi Levine en Cisjordania obliga a Washington a exigir a Israel castigos de prisión para los colonos violentos, responsables de numerosos abusos contra civiles palestinos

US assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor and US ambassador to the Holy See visit Latin Convent Church in Taybeh; Huckabee attends settler conference

Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in Israel

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a “despicable act of terror” and called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible.

Levine, 63, an award-winning journalist who lives in Israel, was set upon last Friday by masked Israeli settlers who used clubs and other weapons to attack Palestinian people attempting to harvest their olives in occupied West Bank towns.

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© Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

© Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

© Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, condemned what he called a “vicious” and “cowardly” attack on a Washington Post photojournalist in the West Bank. The U.S. ambassador shared a statement to the social platform X, calling for a full investigation into an attack by a group of Israeli settlers on Palestinians in Israel’s West…

The Milstein scandal shows the ambassador undercutting American policy and the express wishes of the president.

NYT: David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities. Milstein is the stepson of right-wing radio host Mark Levin

If a Palestinian child throws a stone at a tank, Israel will turn the village upside-down till they get him. But when settlers burn down houses, destroy thousands of olive trees, and take over village land, nothing happens.

David Milstein holds a top-secret security clearance and ranks among Huckabee's closest aides. His stepfather is Fox News host Mark Levin, a close Trump ally