Zavi Kang Engles writes: As a Korean-American concerned about the influence of the United States on other countries, I’ve begun to wonder something — do Korean people have more in common with Israelis, as the official story would have us believe, or with Palestinians?

For three hours, 200 Palestinians in the occupied village of al-Karmil were forced by soldiers to leave their pool to allow Israeli settlers to bathe there, B’Tselem reports.

Yousef Munayyer says BDS campaign has reason to single out Israel: because the international state system is incapable of sanctioning Israel for conduct it sanctions in other states, and because Israel will not allow him to live with his wife in the town he was born.

Israel’s top law enforcement authority has said that a call for the beheading of Palestinian citizens was not “necessarily” violent–and that Avigdor Lieberman, who made the call, did not violate the law against incitement. For Palestinians, the Attorney General’s decision highlights how the incitement law is applied differently depending on ethnicity. Palestinian citizens are routinely investigated and arrested for incitement to violence for comments that don’t come close to the edge of violent speech.

Dan Cohen responds to Jewish Daily Forward editor in chief Jane Eisner who wrote a piece called “Why the Forward Sent a Brave Reporter to Gaza,” about the decision to send their Middle East correspondent to Gaza for a three day reporting trip. Cohen writes, “As a journalist who happens to be Jewish and having spent almost four months on the ground in Gaza including the last weeks of the war last summer, it is clear to me that Eisner knows nothing of reality on the ground in Gaza. More than anything else, Eisner’s hysteria over sending Zeveloff to a place where journalists – Jewish and gentile — make regular visits, exposes her anti-Palestinian racism.”

Tablet has run a piece saying that another era of Jewish persecution is around the corner for American Jews. The golden age is over. The piece is absent evidence apart from crazy ideas like Obama’s disgust at Netanyahu is visceral, as if Netanyahu smells.

Over the weekend Israel’s right-wing politicians laid the groundwork to formally abandon a two-state solution with the Palestinians and crystallize a policy towards annexation.

Wa’d Manaf Abbas writes a moving memoir of how she has grown to hate the place she grew up in and loved as a child — the city of Jerusalem.

The Supreme Court today ruled 6-3 that the Obama administration was right to insist that a passport for a boy born in Jerusalem in 2001 not state, “Jerusalem, Israel,” as the boy wished– and as Congress also wanted. “A blow to the pro-Israel lobby,” even National Public Radio acknowledges

David Samel discusses last week’s debate between Yousef Munayyer and Peter Beinart. He says in the end Beinart’s sincerely stated positions were no match for Munayyer’s more reasoned analysis buttressed by his own experience and simple refusal to tolerate injustice and inequality that all of us, including Beinart, would consider intolerable.