Israel has launched a campaign to convince a majority of 47 countries in the UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza to block findings of the group investigating the Gaza onslaught of last summer

Netanyahu has exploited French killings to say that Jews everywhere “know deep in their hearts” they have only one country, Israel– “our true home, our one and only state”

Imagine a world where the western powers were not invading, occupying, drone bombing, kidnapping, torturing and holding Muslims in prison without trial. Now try to imagine that world in which cartoonists who drew Islamophobic cartoons were murdered. I can’t. writes Katie Miranda

On Saturday, the Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly affirmed in a straw poll by 48 votes to 26 that boycotts help to protect academic freedom. The vote represents progress toward a goal of boycotting Israeli academic institutions.

The Muslim American community, by and large, is sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But when it comes to how to advocate for Palestinians, sharp differences emerge. An at-times bitter debate has broken out in the Muslim American community over engagement with Zionism, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and what type of actions to take to address the Israel/Palestine conflict. The debate has centered around a trip to Israel a handful of Muslim Americans are currently on. The Muslim Leadership Initiative trip, which first caused a storm of controversy online last year, is being sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute, an Israeli and American think tank that has ties to the Israeli army and works against BDS.

A call by alumni of a prestige Israeli academy on students to refuse to serve the occupation army gets pickup on Israeli and Russian TV, and angers the Israeli acting education minister, Avi Wortzman.

Congress has passed provisions that immediately ends funding to the Palestinian Authority in the event of a unity government with Hamas, or a joint government where Hamas exercises “undue influence.” Though, there is one exception. If a supposed unity government recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, the aid will continue.

A coalition of more than 40 New York City community groups held a press conference outside City Hall on Monday calling for the City Council to cancel a planned delegation to Israel. A diverse group of speakers addressed the city’s progressive politicians, asking how they could reconcile their opposition to racism and state violence at home with support for Israel’s policies against the Palestinians.

Whether we view Charlie Hebdo’s Islamic-themed output as blasphemy or bigotry depends on how we relate to two equally divergent historical experiences. The White French majority overwhelmingly experienced the images as part of a national struggle with clericalism, while many people around the world saw them as yet another assault on Muslims. Chloe Patton says that we must shift the conversation from the legal to the ethical realm and urgently come to terms with the ways the historical traumas of the global south continue to haunt the postcolonial present.

IMEMC reports an Israeli settler entered a Palestinian market in the Old City of Jerusalem and started insulting local residents before attacking Anwar Mona, 24, and opening fire. Israeli soldiers arrived, provided protection to the Israeli assailant and arrested Mona.