The New York Times published an aesthetically engaging interactive titled “Roots of the Recent Violence Between Israelis and Palestinians” that attempts to explain the situation since October 1st. Rife with cliches and pro-Israel talking points, the piece fails to use the word “occupation” and tacitly lends support to Israel’s policy of land grabs and ghettoizing Palestinians behind walls.

The percentage of Americans holding a favorable view of Israel has dropped by 16 points in two years; Donald Trump surely senses this in his avowedly-neutral comments on the conflict, which set him up to run against the Israel lobby in its support for Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton

Anti-semitism confirmed the belief that Jews are special, for many Zionists and secular Jews. We are not special. Any human can be brought to the abyss of nationalist absolutism and totalitarianism. Any religion can be applied in a way that accentuates the exclusivist ideological stream. If we let that idea haunt us to the degree of uncontrolled survivalist frenzy, we will be undermining our own future and fulfilling the next doom prophecy.

For a few magic weeks, Bernie Sanders was taken seriously as a presidential candidate with a chance to win – a huge watershed for a self-avowed socialist. But after falling short (even if slightly) in Iowa and Nevada, and with no friendly states on the horizon, Sanders is back in protest candidacy territory. Could taking on Hillary Clinton’s warlike foreign policy, which Sanders stubbornly refused to do, have changed the game?

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Bil‘in on Friday to mark 11 years of weekly demonstrations against the Israeli occupation and the separation wall.

Israeli police fired several rounds into an incapacitated Palestinian after he stabbed officers near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate yesterday morning. Two Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded in the attack. A team from Al Jazeera captured the killing as it unfolded in the background of their rolling cameras, astonished by the quantity of live-fire shot into the downed Palestinian.

Today is the Nevada caucus, an exciting day for people on the edge of their seats following Nevada’s dead heat race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic primary. On the heels of Sanders ascension in the national polls comes breaking news from the Chicago Tribune archives — photographic evidence of Sanders being arrested as a young civil rights activist.

Mort Zuckerman’s opposition to the Iran Deal was an expression of the “Coffee Party,” Haim Saban wrote to Hillary Clinton in an unclassified email, in a reference to neoconservatives. But Saban is just as strong as Zuckerman on Israel. Why aren’t the media exploring these differences?

Shukrallah Karam, 63, was killed by Israeli forces in south Lebanon in February 1977, 39 years ago, because he was a doctor who refused to flee when people needed him. His actions and beliefs embodied the secular politics of national unity and economic development that animated progressive forces in Lebanon prior to the civil war in 1975, before they were gradually replaced by virulent sectarianism.

The fundamental principle of Kibush Hashmira (the conquest of guarding) in Palestine in the 1930s was tower and stockade. The entire history of Zionism and Israel is this history of anti-Palestine-ing.