Rabbi’s are under scrutiny for ethical violations — Peeping Rabbis in the mikvah and assorted violations relating to sex. But other ethical violations are under reported or, actually, never mentioned. Like rabbis enabling congregants to flaunt International Law by supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. Only with the emergence of Jews of Conscience has the Jewish establishment been called to task.

Jeffrey Goldberg falsely tied Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda and fabricated a moral case for invading Iraq, Ken Silverstein writes at the Observer, seeking to give Goldberg a “pundit reckoning” for this disastrous judgment, no his career has soared

‘You have dual citizenship with Israel’ NPR host Diane Rehm questions Bernie Sanders. The internet canard may dog Sanders — who worked on a kibbutz — the way Kenya canard dogged Obama

For 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza, of whom over 1.2 million are refugees, the Israeli siege and cyclical violence are insufferable. And yet, in addition to spreading the stories about suffering, the local and independent media landscape in Gaza has taken to reflecting the area’s more multifaceted nature instead of the narrative we commonly see in the West. By alternating between beauty and sadness, journalists in Gaza are providing a jarring but honest representation of what living there really means.

Israel’s existence is in jeopardy because its support base is disintegrating but it takes US and Jewish support for granted and does nothing to change, longtime supporter Abraham Foxman says in New York

Peter Beinart’s criticism of the BDS movement displays a shocking ignorance of how a boycott – any boycott – actually works. If he truly is willing to acknowledge that the state of Israel is running an apartheid system – even if he believes that it is only in the West Bank and Gaza Strip – then he has a responsibility to endorse the nonviolent solution which actually targets the responsible party: boycotting, divesting from, and bringing sanctions to bear on Israel itself.

“I have to do what’s right for the United States first of all, and Eretz Yisrael [the land of Israel] second,” NY Senator Chuck Schumer tells a Jewish group in a speech suggesting that he is going to back the Iran deal. He said he has made Obama “mad” by opposing the deal.

Larry Cohler-Esses, an assistant managing editor at the Jewish Daily Forward, responds to Dan Cohen’s critique of the Jane Eisner editorial “Why the Forward Sent a Brave Reporter to Gaza.”

Israeli forces detained a 13-year-old Palestinian from his home in the al-Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem overnight Tuesday, lawyer says. Lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud of the Addameer prisoners’ rights group identified the youth as Tariq Mustafa,

Israel always depended on two principles of power: dependence on a superpower and maintaining the “moral high ground” in the west, says Haaretz columnist Ari Shavit. It is in danger of losing both