Yesterday Donald Trump released a shocking proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Trump’s idea rests on research from the Center for Security Policy, a neocon think tank run by Frank Gaffney who has a long history of pro-Israel advocacy and has been called “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Ma‘an reports: The Palestinian Authority’s Department of Prisoners’ Affairs Legal Affairs Director Louay Akka said Palestinian prisoner Wasim Marouf was covered with 28 cigarette burns on his hands, chest and back. Akka became aware of Marouf’s injuries while visiting Ofer prison where the man is being held. Akka condemned Marouf’s treatment, calling his injuries “unfathomable,” and those responsible “criminal.” “I don’t know the nature of the directives or training [the Israeli guards] must have received to become this brutal,” Akka said.

Hatred of Israel reportedly played a part in Syed Farook’s terrorist rampage in San Bernardino last week. The US press seems to ignore this angle, as it would require showing the damage that the special relationship with Israel helps to bring to Americans, going back to 9/11 and Robert Kennedy’s assassination.

Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, headed off to Silicon Valley to meet senior executives at Google and its subsidiary YouTube late last month. Her task was to persuade them that, for the sake of peace, they must censor the growing number of Palestinian videos posted on YouTube.

In the biggest Israel pander speech of this political cycle, Hillary Clinton praises Israel’s “prowess in war” as “inspiring,” and brags that she and Israel were born a few months apart. And says the military option is still on the table for Iran, and that BDS is a threat to the US as much as extremism and Iran.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof slips a bit of irrelevant hasbara into a column on Syrian refugees, saying that they are grateful to Israel for helping them, and if the US had done as much, it could have saved Anne Frank

John Kerry knows that Amedy Coulibaly who killed 4 at a Paris supermarket last January was motivated in part by the Palestinian issue. Elliott Abrams is telling Kerry to STFU

The media will swarm and exhaustively cover attacks on civilians in the West when Muslims do them. But when the perpetrator is white, the questions become “how are we getting so used to this” and “is it time to talk about gun control.”

Abed Rahman Barghouthi, 26, was killed on Friday by Israeli forces outside the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish in the West Bank. He was the fourth Palestinian killed that day.

Disturbing image of the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, at the Republican Jewish Coalition event Thursday, shot by Mark Peterson