The American public is overwhelmingly behind the Iran deal. So who is against it and demanding that Congress has oversight? Only the rightwing Israel lobby. Though yesterday Obama got the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to reject “two of Netanyahu’s demands”

Our site has been closely following the Open Hillel movement’s encounter with Hillel International: a…

Israel’s Justice Ministry has said it is taking on hate crime against Palestinians. Why is it plea-bargaining with four Israeli teens who torched a Palestinian cafe near Hebron after painting “Revenge” on the door?

Pro-Israel campus activism reaches new levels of desperation: video saying that best and brightest young Jews are called to criticize Israel because of “justice” and “equality”

Obama met yesterday for hours with Malcolm Hoenlein and Haim Saban and other Jewish leaders to try and back his Iran deal. The Israel lobby has never been more obvious, but where is the US press?

Seth Morrison used to travel to Israel to work on a kibbutz and go to AIPAC’s policy conferences. Today, the 63-year-old attends Jewish Voice for Peace meetings. Morrison’s long political evolution is an increasingly common story among liberal Jews. The deepening of the Israeli occupation is pushing people like Morrison to the left–and to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Mondoweiss caught up with Morrison at the Jewish Voice for Peace membership meeting in March, and produced an audio report on Morrison’s political evolution.

Celebrity sites TMZ and Perez Hilton describe the occupied old city of Jerusalem as Israel in covering the baptism of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter North there. They’re almost as bad as the Democratic Party.

The Israeli opposition, the supposed liberals, are demanding that the U.S. incorporate Israel’s ability to carry out a military strike on Iran into the final deal. Livni and Herzog demand the same access to US power as Netanyahu.

Escalating violence at Friday demo. The Israeli military did not even wait for Kafr Qaddum’s Friday demonstration to start before firing at the crowd of demonstrators today. Before prayers had finished the Israeli military began firing at the demonstration with teargas, stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets.

NYT obit for Gunter Grass puts his 2012 poem criticizing Israel in paragraph 4, ahead of his global bestseller about Germany during the war, The Tin Drum. Grass was the “conscience of a generation,” BBC said today, but he became “virtually a persona non grata” after the poem.