The Jabari family lives in the Hebron neighborhood of Wadi Al Hussein, between the illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba and the Giva Ha’avot. Since 2001, the family has been fighting a legal battle to regain control of their land after settlers illegally built a “Synagogue Tent” on it. Ayat Jabari explains, “When we first came here they [the settlers] stabbed my little brother in the stomach, then hit another of my brothers on his eyes. Another time they pushed my father from the hill and he broke his shoulder. Every day, every night they throw stones at us.” Jabari says the settlers want the land so they can connect up the different settlements in the city center with those on the outskirts.

After it was reported that Milbank Tweed had withdrawn a million-dollar gift to Harvard Law School because it paid for pizza at a pro-Palestine event, legal faculty and students have published an open letter to the law school community deploring donor influence over free speech.

A rash of state legislation targeting the Boycott Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement continues to spread. A Georgia lawmaker recently introduced a bill that mirrors legislation pending in six other states in an effort to outlaw government contracts with businesses that boycott Israel. “These bills exist because the BDS movement is growing in the U.S., and that’s making Israel’s fiercest advocates nervous,” said Rahul Saksena, an attorney at Palestine Legal, which has tracked anti-BDS legislation.

J Street denounces Tom Friedman’s announcement that there’s one state in Israel and Palestine, but it won’t take its own members over to the West Bank. Doing so would make it clear as day that the two-state solution is past; and J Street’s stance is delusory. The organization wants Jews to sing HaTikvah (The Hope) for Zionism, when that hope has plainly curdled.

Pro-Israel video tailored to Christian Zionists shows a young Mississippian indoctrinated by the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement shooting up his possessions made in Israel till a friend points the gun at a bible and says BDS movement wants to boycott God and the bible

Over the weekend London Palestine Action kicked off Israeli Apartheid Week by pulling off the amazing feat of plastering over 500 Underground trains with posters criticizing British foreign policy and BBC coverage of Israel/Palestine.

BDS is influencing American Jewish students, pollster Frank Luntz warns a secret conference in Jerusalem, with less than a third of the students regarding Israel as a democracy and less than half believing it wants peace.

Israeli bulldozers predawn Sunday demolished an elementary school and seized all its contents in Abu al-Nawwar Bedouin community, east of Jerusalem, according to one of the Bedouin locals. In addition, Israel has razed over 200 EU-funded buildings in the West Bank in the past two years. This year alone around 480 people, including 220 children, have been left homeless.

Help support “Killing Gaza,” a new documentary feature by Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal that aims to create an unflinching and uncompromising portrayal of the daily Israeli violence wrought upon Gaza and the complicity of Western governments.

Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that Hillary Clinton is far and away the largest recipient of political donations from the defense industry. Writer Rania Khalek says, “But I’m sure those war profiteers are just incredibly generous and expect nothing in return.”