Violence / Detentions — West Bank, Jerusalem 104 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since October…

‘At night he comes to me and asks, “Why did you kill me?” former Israeli soldier Ido Gal Razon, now suffering from PTSD, tells an Israeli government committee about killing 40 people in Gaza 7 years ago

Jodi Rudoren is leaving Jerusalem well short of four years as New York Times bureau chief.

The Palestinian National Theatre “Al Hakawati” published today an appeal to Jerusalem institutions and businessmen in the city to save the theatre from closure during the next 48 hours.

The media are silent about the real basis for Donald Trump’s lie that Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks in N.J.: the arrest of five Israelis who observed the attacks and may well have been spies

Violence / Detentions — West Bank, Jerusalem 3 more Palestinian teens dead after alleged stabbing…

‘Foreign Policy’ decries the influence of ‘Israel lobby’ donors over Hillel, which has become an ardently Zionist organization, thereby not serving Jewish students. Another breakthrough in the MSM

Henry Siegman has an important piece up at the Nation in which he explains the recent Palestinian violence as a natural political response to unending occupation and describes the Palestinians as fighting for “freedom”

There was a big shebang in Boston yesterday over the Palestine Advocacy Project’s massively popular “ONE WORD” ad campaign at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Fiscal and Management Control Board public meeting. The MBTA management board (locally known as “the T”) heard public testimony before a vote on Monday afternoon the T decided to ban political issue advertising on the transit system. The ads are coming down.

Katie Miranda imagines a not-too-distant future where Muslims are forced to demonstrate their allegiance to the United States.