Dozens of Palestinian students marched in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem to encourage business owners to get behind the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement on Sunday. Ibrahim Subhay, a 22-year-old student in Bethlehem, told Mondoweiss that his main goal was to educate business owners on the importance of the BDS movement, “We can’t ask the international community to support us, and not do our part to support ourselves.”

On March 13, 11-year-old Khalid Ishtawy joined the thousands of other children injured by Israeli forces, when he was shot in the thigh in the northern occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum during a protest. This past weekend other children joined the village’s weekly protest to honor their injured friend. Abed Al Qaisi and Sheren Khalel interview some of the young protesters who say they are demanding their right to be like children in the rest of the world, and letting their injured friend know they support him.

“I’m going to be on Israel’s side when I’m president of the United States. And the world is going to know we’re on Israel’s side my first very first day in office,” Sen. Marco Rubio says in his Israel-loving stump speech in FL

Bernie Sanders should speak at AIPAC, the leading Israel lobby organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, next week, and he should give “the Jewish speech” to rival Obama’s famous race speech: and call for an end to US military aid to Israel and support the BDS movement to pressure Israel to stop persecuting Palestinians.

“We should get over all this, it was a Jewish state that was set up,” Vice President Joe Biden says in a loopy conversation with his dear friend Netanyahu in Israel filled with gaffes, including. “Russia has seen the lord.”

Members of the New York City Council are pushing a bill that would require public colleges in the city to track anti-Semitism on campus. But Palestine solidarity activists say the bill is aimed at their activism. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters have waged vociferous protests in recent months against Israel on campus that have alarmed pro-Israel advocates

McGill professors committed to justice and equity strongly disagree with the Principal Suzanne Fortier’s official response on behalf of the Montreal university administration to the recent Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) motion in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and the subsequent on-line process which failed to ratify this vote.

Israel expels the family of an alleged terrorist, Fouad Abu Rajab Tamimi, from Jerusalem to the West Bank, a form of collective punishment.

Donald Trump says Muslims hate the U.S. and that’s an important problem. Marco Rubio says many Muslims love the U.S., but Trump is “anti-Israeli” because he wants to cut a peace deal between Israel and Palestine.

Academics, including Noam Chomsky, respond to Suzanne Fortier’s misrepresentation of BDS following McGill University’s failure to ratify a student vote in favor of divestment.