Amid many clashes in the West Bank over the weekend, two Palestinian girls were struck by a settler’s car near a village. Five year old Einas Khalil later died of her injuries

More great news for BDS. 400 delegates at the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ (CTUCC), representing 240 churches and 97,000 members throughout the state of Connecticut, voted to divest from all companies “profiting from the occupation of the Palestine Territories by the State of Israel” at their 147th annual statewide conference on Friday.

On Monday three Israelis who have admitted to the killing of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the 16-year old Palestinian who was burned to death over the summer after being abducted from behind his East Jerusalem home in a revenge killing for the unrelated kidnapping and slaying of three Israeli youths a month prior, will give their pleas in district court.

The late Tony Judt on David Brooks and Tom Friedman pushing the Iraq war: “catastrophic acquiescence in authority and plain, old-fashioned dumb ignorance masquerading as commentary. These were the circumstances which allowed a criminal political action to be pushed through the public space with very little opposition.”

Maybe you saw that a top minister in Israel’s government accused John Kerry, the US secretary of state, of anti-Semitism? Naftali Bennett’s accusation is not singular. As Israel grows more isolated in world opinion the anti-Semitism charge is being thrown around in a new way, at a new crowd.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs in the Washington Post joins former Ambassador Marc Ginsberg in calling on an end to federal tax break for nonprofits helping settlement construction in Palestine

Anyone say regime change? Israel is losing its friends round the world, Financial Times and Americans for Peace Now agree, because of Netanyahu’s cynical settlement policy

Thousands attended the funeral in Beit Laqiya, a West Bank village, of 13-year-old Bahaa Samir Badir, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Thursday

A new phase is developing in the US Palestinian solidarity movement: Block the Boat. The weekend of October 18th, Palestinian solidarity activists in Los Angeles will be holding another Block the Boat action. Block the Boat Los Angeles is organizing a community picket at 6 am at the intersection of Pier A Way and Pier A Plaza, on Long Beach, to prevent a Zim ship from unloading. Organizers say their principal goal is to stop ships “from unloading cargo made in Israel in an effort to peacefully apply economic pressure and fight Israeli Apartheid.”

A Times article praising life for Israelis in Berlin in today’s paper exposes a frontpage article in the paper three weeks ago on the demon of anti-Semitism rising in Germany as hasbara hysteria