Who’s Afraid of the Abraham Accords?

Earlier this month, a group of self-styled progressive organizations—including the Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR, a group with significant ties to Hamas), the Jewish group If Not Now, and the U.S. Presbyterian Church—petitioned Congress not to support the normalization agreements that Israel has signed with four Arab countries, as well as further peacemaking efforts in this vein. While this view might be extreme, it’s worth noting that, in a bizarre exchange in the early days of the Biden administration, a State Department official appeared reluctant even to use the term “Abraham Accords” to describe these agreements. David M. Weinberg comments on this hostility to good relations between former adversaries: