Israeli army alleges that Mahmud Ahmad Abu Fanunah, 21, jumped out of a car and charged soldiers at Gush Etzion checkpoint with a knife yesterday. He was immediately shot dead.

Merrick Garland would be the eighth Jew on the Supreme Court since Brandeis was appointed 100 years ago. There have been only two blacks. The nomination is a reflection of the Jewish presence in the Establishment.

For the last several weeks there has been much speculation over whether presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would address the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC. Today, Sanders announced that he will not attend due to campaign commitments, but he would like to share his remarks with AIPAC members.

On an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Berlin the captain has a message for the passengers that he only shares in Hebrew.

Portland’s Socially Responsible Investments Committee (SRIC) voted – 4 in favor, 2 opposed – at its March 17th meeting to recommend that City funds should not be invested in Caterpillar, citing concern that Caterpillar Corporation violates a number of the City’s socially responsible investment criteria. Maxine Fookson, from Occupation-Free Portland, which pushed for Caterpillar to be placed on the Do-Not-Buy List, said “This is an important victory for human rights. The SRIC today took a stand on the right side of history making it clear that companies, like Caterpillar, that are knowingly engaged in human rights violations in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land should not be supported by Portland investments.”

Jeffrey Goldberg drives the neoconservative story, in an interview with President Obama in which he repeatedly suggests that the president lost his foreign policy credibility when he failed to attack Syria in 2013.

Due to a fear of Donald Trump’s candidacy, Ted Cruz suddenly seems palatable to the Republican establishment. He has garnered high-profile endorsements and represents for many the last hope of a “conservative” candidate to save the party in this election. But the facts remain – Ted Cruz is the most radical candidate in the field and he himself made this clear with his new advisors on national security: Frank Gaffney and Retired Lt. General Jerry Boykin.

The global movement supporting the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, justice and equality has taken impressive steps into the political mainstream in recent years. As a result, Israel, its lobby groups and its right-wing supporters have launched an unprecedented, well-funded global campaign to silence Palestinian narratives and criminalize BDS advocacy, especially in western countries. Israeli-induced attacks on free speech and civil rights in Europe, the US and Canada, among others, are fostering an ominous environment of bullying, intimidation and repression that has all the hallmarks of the era of McCarthyism in the US and the worst days of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Donald Trump, similar to Benjamin Netanyahu, has a gift for manipulating the media to serve his purposes. Regardless of his inconsistent views on Israel, which are likely to fall in line with the traditional Republican do-or-die support at the AIPAC convention, his shenanigans and the mounting unrest they produce are the absolute best thing that could happen to Netanyahu and his extremist government.

Israel supporters condemn the “delegitimizing” efforts of the BDS movement, but it is not as if delegitmization is a new tactic to Zionism. Indeed, a strong case could be made that it has been perhaps the single most ubiquitous and effective tool of the movement in the US and elsewhere over much of the last century.