Comedian Adam Sandler is “nervous” about Israel because people now “say shit” about Israel; but he is “disgusted” that the BDS campaign is in his words singling Israel out.

A federal lawsuit filed last week alleges that U.S.-based tax-exempt entities who raise money for Israeli settlements are engaged in money-laundering and other crimes, and seeks a Treasury Department investigation into those activities. The lawsuit could bring attention to the widespread practice of Americans getting tax-deductions for donations that fund illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. “What’s going over there is wholesale violence, ethnic cleansing, theft of private property, murder and maiming of innocent civilians,” said Martin McMahon, one of the lawyers who worked on the suit. “This is not what 501c3s should be doing.”

Will anti-interventionist ideas get traction in the US political process? Bernie Sanders is pushing them by warning the U.S. against entering the “quagmire” of perpetual war in the Middle East, and citing the terrible consequences of the U.S. overthrowing Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister, more than 60 years ago.

Israeli forces have killed 127 Palestinians since Oct. 1. Two of the latest victims were killed at Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Abdullah Hussein Ahmad Nasasra, 15, after he allegedly tried to stab a soldier, and Samah Abdul-Mo’men, 20, who was sitting in a car with her father and was struck by indiscriminate fire.

Ayman Odeh, a leading Palestinian politician, refused to set foot in Jewish Agency offices in NY because of discriminatory land sales. Barbara Walters should not have shilled for the Jewish National Fund for that very reason.

Mort Sahl understood the conflict. In 1991 he joked, “the actual roadblock to peace is the intransigence of the Israeli government, and.. peace would be aided and abetted if the Israelis would set a humanistic example by voluntarily giving back all the occupied lands to the Palestinians”

Rightwinger Eugene Kontorovich has had the run of the Washington Post and the New York Times op-ed page to defend Israel, but the papers fail to state that the Northwestern University law professor is also a settler on the West Bank. And he’s praised Nadia Matar, who has called for the assassination of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

For the past two weeks people have been bombarding Tiffany’s Facebook page with questions about the company’s funding of Givati Brigade, a unit of the Israeli military that has been accused of war crimes.

Eitay Mack, an Israeli lawyer who has opposed Israeli arm sales to parties to regional conflicts around the world, says arms going to Burundi are being turned on demonstrators in violation of human rights laws

David Folkenflik of NPR reports on Sheldon Adelson’s purchase of a Las Vegas newspaper and says his political concern is the “hospitality industry,” covering up Adelson’s demonstrated devotion to Israel as a political cause.