Ha’aretz reports that right-wing advocacy group StandWithUs sent a “robot-spy” to a panel discussion on Israel/Palestine held last week at Brown University, featuring MK Haneen Zoabi. Strange as this episode is, in a sense it makes perfect sense. For some time, pro-Israel advocates have viewed college campuses, where understanding of the Palestinians’ plight has been on the rise, as key battlegrounds. And just as Israeli firms have been on the cutting-edge of robotics for the world’s literal battlefields, so StandWithUs has taken the first step of deploying an android in the war of ideas.

Was Hillary Clinton bribed to support the Iraq war? Her vote was a mistake, she tells Chris Matthews on MSNBC, but “part of what certainly influenced me” was George W. Bush pledging a year before to give $20 billion to rebuild New York.

Israel will be delegitimized by the weapon of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in a way that conventional weapons have failed, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says in Washington, and he called on support for Israel’s status as “the nation state of the Jewish people… We do need this kind of at least moral support, and that’s what I’m asking here in Washington.”

“Legislation that bars BDS activity by private groups, whether corporations or universities, strikes at the heart of First Amendment-protected free speech, will be challenged in the courts and is likely to be struck down.” Defenders of BDS do not often see eye to eye with Abraham Foxman, who wrote these lines shortly before stepping down last year as the national director of the Anti Defamation League. But this is the message that the Massachusetts Freedom to Boycott Coalition will be taking to the halls of the State House on March 15 when they hand deliver to each legislative office a copy of a statement opposing anti-BDS legislation that has been signed by 61 organizations from across the Commonwealth.

As the GOP frontrunner Donald Trump continues to pick up victories during primary season his momentum and support base has become more emboldened. With each passing day the level of hateful rhetoric emanating from the campaign continues to shock the world and Trump’s popularity continues to rise as the hate rhetoric continues to flow. Imraan Siddiqi looks at the sharp upswing in violent incidents taking place at the hands of Trump supporters at rallies and beyond.

Jonathan Ofir explains how he, an Israeli expatriate in Europe, came to be so critical of his country. “I came to realise that ‘fighting for my country’ meant something very different than winning ideological and physical battles for the State of Israel. It meant dismantling Zionist propaganda.”

Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics, a company that pillages mud products from occupied Palestine, plans to move its factory from the occupied West Bank to within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The company had been the longtime target of Code Pink’s Stolen Beauty Ahava boycott campaign, which included activists chaining themselves to concrete blocks inside Ahava’s London store, and persistent online social media actions spanning continents since the campaign was launched in 2009.

Palestinian schoolteacher Hanan Al Hroub was recently awarded the “Global Teacher award” for 2016, for teaching students traumatized by violence. Palestinian teachers are carrying on one of the most necessary tasks in any society, despite the everyday violence of the Israeli occupation, the relentless criticism from Zionists around the world who persist in their claims that that “Palestinians teach their children to hate,” and the extreme corruption from their employer, the Palestinian Authority. Under these circumstances, Hroub’s award becomes even more meaningful. It represents the sumoud of a people neglected by its leadership and abused by the world’s leaders. The award is an acknowledgement that, as Rafeef Ziadah put it so powerfully, even when engulfed in unfathomable violence, “We Teach Life, Sir!”

Parents in the occupied West Bank say they can no longer allow their children to play outside because of fears that they could be shot dead by Israeli forces. A report published this month by a children’s rights group said that 41 children had been shot dead during six months of upheaval in which Israeli forces have often responded with lethal force to scores of stabbing and shooting attacks by Palestinians.

Instead of attending a traditional Shabbat service last Friday night, members of Tzedek Chicago, the city’s new non-Zionist congregation, joined the massive protest again presidential candidate Donald Trump. Rabbi Brant Rosen wrote: “Clearly this is not the most conventional way to greet Shabbat. Nevertheless I do believe–and trust you will agree–that this is where we need to be tonight.”