Why are Palestinians worried about Al Aqsa? Because prominent Israelis, from the minister of Agriculture to an army radio personality, have called for the replacement of the Dome of the Rock in the Haram al-Sharif with a third Jewish temple

In mid-November, people will gather in Cambridge, Mass, to examine the lessons of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa in an effort to build more effective political campaign to influence Congress today. A conference organized by Peace Action will examine the current state of US politics and policy regarding Israel-Palestine, assess the growing partisan divide on the issue and take concrete steps to organize on-going efforts based in each Massachusetts Congressional district.

Israeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Arsheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent the Ibrahimi Mosque, said the teen raised her arms and stated “I don’t have a knife” before she was shot with “eight to 10 bullets” before she fell to the ground.

Yousef Munayyer says the Palestinian rebellion could hurt international solidarity efforts if it is not channeled into the non-violent BDS movement that has transformed global opinion. While Max Blumenthal says the violence suggests an Algeria outcome in Israel and Palestine rather than a South Africa ending.

Will the recent escalation of Israeli brutality, coinciding with the continuing diminishment of Palestine, change the progressive Zionism of Rabbis for Human Rights?

For the clearest distillation of Israeli political thinking there is no better place to start than at the top. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reports on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s message to a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that although he doesn’t want a binational state, “at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future. . . I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword — yes.”

Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, compares Palestinian knife attacks to the Islamic jihadists who killed fusilier Lee Rigby on the London streets in 2013, nearly beheading him. A morally bankrupt analogy.

Times change: A day after the formerly neoconservative Washington Post ran an article calling for boycott and sanctions against Israel written by two prestigious Jewish scholars, it runs a piece by novelist Assaf Gavron saying Israel has become a savage rightwing society and it must end the occupation to save itself.

Greenburgh Town Supervisor says he wanted to be a rabbi, and he supports Israel, after rightwing fanatics denounce as “evil” an event at town hall that merely called for equal rights for Jews and Palestinians

On an American Christian trip to the occupied territories, Rev. Jeffrey DeYoe’s group picks olives, meets highly-educated Palestinians and sees that they don’t even have the right to demonstrate against the occupation.