During the month of October Israeli forces killed 73 Palestinians, and Palestinians killed 11 Israelis in more than 30 attacks amid increased violence dubbed the “knife Intifada” or “third Intifada” by Palestinian media. The month of October also saw the highest number of settler attacks on Palestinians in years. In total there were 287 incidents which included settlers running over Palestinians in hit and runs, torching agricultural fields, stoning Palestinian houses and, attacking the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.

John Salisbury sends up update from Australia regarding the country’s changing politics towards Israel and Palestine. Salisbury recently undertook a 330 kilometer walk from from Sydney to Canberra to highlight the injustice of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

Authors Lillian Rosengarten and Remi Kanazi are Americans who view Israel/Palestine– in her new autobiography and his new collection of poems– as two New Yorkers mourning their family’s ejection from a homeland. They refuse to be only the particular (Arab, Jew), refusing the scheme of the world as kin versus enemy.

A Red Crescent spokesperson told Ma‘an News that at least 760 Palestinians were shot with live rounds across the occupied Palestinian territory, while another 1,857 were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets. He said that a further 5,399 Palestinians were treated for excessive tear gas inhalation during the period, while another 246 were injured in other ways, including assault by Israeli soldiers and burns from tear gas canisters. The spokesperson said that it brought the total injured during October to 8,262 Palestinians.

Elle Magazine published an autobiographical article by Karmah Elmusa, a young Palestinian-American journalist — and all heck broke loose in the comment section.

Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism: “Journalism has the potential to be transformative, to inform and provoke. Too often I see reporters desperate to be close to power, whether ministers, minders. Insiders. Being embedded.”

The economist Glen Weyl, 30, of Yale and Microsoft, endorsed BDS on his Facebook page after the reelection of a “fascistic” Israeli government last March, even though he loves Israel more than the US. The decision led to his article in the Washington Post last week endorsing boycott along with Harvard’s Steven Levitsky

The New York Times underplays Paul Singer’s commitment to rightwing pro-Israel groups in coverage of Singer’s endorsement of the neoconservative favorite, FL Senator Marco Rubio

Baseball fans, don’t forget that the scene of tonight’s fifth game of the World Series was the site of a fundraiser for an American group supporting illegal settler zealots, the Hebron Fund, back in 2009.

Editors of Park Slope Food Coop newsletter censor letters on boycotting Israel because editing takes up so much of their time as editors and the letters allegedly contain hate speech.