There have been a number of attacks on Palestinians in the last two days, by settlers and soldiers, in Jerusalem and the West Bank. One died, a 22 year old hit by a bus

Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes her first foreign trip, to Israel, and meets with Benjamin Netanyahu even as he is working to undermine US negotiations with Iran. The road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue runs through Jerusalem.

As Dima Khalidi of Palestine Solidarity Legal Support made clear at a forum in DC last week, Palestinian activism in the US is on the ascent; and efforts to suppress it go against the American commitment to the First Amendment and will only hurt Israel in the end.

Anna-Esther Younes interviews Max Blumenthal about his controversial appearances in Berlin, Germany where he and David Sheen were accused of anti-Semitism because they spoke on racism in Israeli society.

The New York Times says the Israel cabinet’s decision to make Israel “the nation state of the Jewish people” is “heartbreaking.” The emotion would be more appropriate to an American jurisdiction; and Israel has been violating principles of equality for more than 60 years.

Micha Kurz debunks a short piece of inflammatory propaganda circulated by the Israeli Prime Minister’s office about the Temple Mount and the Israeli role in Jerusalem.

A Wellesley College chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine formed this fall and tried to start a conversation about Palestinian human rights. A few pro-Israel students are trying to shut down that conversation, saying it is “menacing.” The campaign represents a bigoted backlash against Palestinian solidarity and in the process Wellesley SJP has been falsely accused of contributing to a growing hostile and anti-Jewish environment on our campus. Three SJP members respond and address the repeated attempts to slander their work for Palestinian and Israeli human rights.

On 11/24/2008 a Texas Jury found Shukri Abu Baker and his comrades in the HLF case guilty of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Shukri Abu Baker shares his “sarcastically serious” thoughts on our sixth anniversary of the decision.

A poster put up by Students for Justice in Palestine at Wellesley College asked students What Zionism means to you? and included answers like genocide and apartheid. A pro-Israel student says the poster makes Jews feel unsafe and targeted.

Flamethrower Seth Lipsky is calling for the U.S. to join the “battle for Jerusalem,” while Bret Stephens says we may have to “militarily” engage in the conflict