Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:30 am, Jewish Americans CODEPINK activists, Ariel Gold, of Ithaca, NY and Ariel Vegosen, of Oakland, CA, unfurled a banner near the Kotel (Western Wall) reading, “American Jews support BDS.” Representing the women’s peace organization, Code Pink, the activists goal was to express Jewish opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement as a nonviolent strategy to bring about a just peace in Palestine and Israel.

How can journalists get away with addressing a fervently pro-Israel organization, the Jewish Federations? Dana Bash and David Gregory spoke at the group’s annual conference, ahead of Israeli PM Netanyahu

The President said nothing about settlements, occupation, or even Palestinian rights in his overly-friendly appearance with Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu this morning, whom he’s met more than any other foreign leader

“I won’t take compensation from occupation,” Issa Amro says of destruction to his property in Hebron by Israeli soldiers. Early Saturday morning Amro, 35, awoke to dozens of Israeli soldiers entering the Youth Against Settlements house and presenting him with a military order to seize control of the house for 24-hours. Amro, along with an Italian journalist on assignment with an Israeli paper, and two international activists who were staying at the Youth Against Settlements advocacy center were then ushered into a single bedroom where, with the exception of escorted bathroom breaks, they were forced to stay until after daybreak Sunday.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported Sunday that the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and armed Israeli paramilitary settlers in the period between October 1 and the evening of Sunday evening November 8, has reached 79, including 17 children and three women, while more than 3000 Palestinians have been injured.

A Ted Cruz hearing on Palestinian incitement pillories Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Cruz must be running for president– so he leaves out all the Israeli incitement to violence

Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj responds to a recent Ha’aretz column by Israeli anthropologist Dan Rabinowitz who argued against the Palestinian academic and cultural boycott of Israel by saying the BDS movement surreptitiously promotes the “endgame” of “a future with no Israel.” Abu El-Haj writes: “Nearly 70 years later, however, Israel does exist so the question shifts: What do we do now? BDS insists that Israel cannot—and should not—continue to exist as it exists today. Yes, this is a challenge to the state’s future—that is, those of us advocating for boycott and divestment think that the Israeli state has no right to continue to exist as a racial state that builds the distinction between Jew and non-Jew into its citizenship laws, its legal regimes, its educational system, its economy, and its military and policing tactics. What the day after will look like remains an open question.”

Even as the New York Times, Hillary Clinton and the Center for American Progress urge Obama to get over his snit with Netanyahu, the Israeli government disses the president by announcing 2,200 new settlement units.

With perhaps a level of organizing unprecedented in Washington DC, 38 faith-based and social justice organizations have come together to plan a series of actions to protest the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week to the nation’s capital.

Why does Israel extend International Covenant of political and civil protections to Israelis living in the settlements, but not to their far more numerous Palestinian neighbors? A conversation with Dutch jurist Cees Flinterman