Iceland’s corrupt elite raises doubts that greedy, dishonest leaders are only a problem in the poor parts of the world.

Hillary Clinton holds a fundraiser at a NY Israel supporter’s house and attacks Bernie Sanders over Daily News interview where he said Israeli settlements are “illegal” and damage US relationship with Israel

The fact that Bernie Sanders marched through the era of conformity, anti-Communism, and materialism to maintain an identity as a democratic socialist without the fear of anti-Communist stigmatization or need to belong to a more respectable form of Jewish identity is one of the extraordinary features of his character.

Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri has called for the expulsion of BDS leaders because “you cannot turn the other cheek to those who beat us.” In their extremist incitement against the BDS movement, Israeli leaders, from right to extreme-right, have made it absolutely clear that they are serious about seeing the end of the movement before it achieves its objectives, namely freedom, justice, and equality. Haidar Eid writes from Gaza about the power of BDS.

Regulations on seat belts and smoking for Palestinians in the West Bank may be good for their health, but they were imposed by a government they didn’t get to vote for. Another reminder of oppression of occupation.

In a letter made public today over 100 writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Díaz, Richard Ford, and Alice Walker, and award-winning author Louise Erdrich, have called on the PEN American Center “to reject support from the Embassy of Israel” for PEN’s annual World Voices Festival.

“I learned more about Israel in these five days in Palestine than in any other trips I’ve made.” Mondoweiss is excited to share our first foray into the world of print, Phil Weiss’s reportage from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. “The World the Settlers Made” tells the story of five days in January 2016 that Phil Weiss spent immersed in the world of Israeli settlers. The experience gave him a vivid, immediate experience of their daily lives, and a greater understanding of the worldview shaping Israeli politics. “The World the Settlers Made” includes 21 pages of Phil’s reports and is on sale now.

Mondoweiss interviews Jesse Sbaih, a Nevada attorney running for Congress in the state’s open Third District race. Sbaih contends Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, whose support is crucial for Democrats in Nevada, told him: “You’re not going to be able to win because you are a Muslim.” Sbaih would be the first Muslim Arab in Congress.

Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, displayed for the first time Friday photographs of four Israelis believed to be held in Gaza, of whom two are civilians and two are soldiers killed in combat.

Omar Zahzah, a graduate student at UCLA, describes the creation of Israel in ethnic cleansing and its continuing discriminatory and “apartheid” practices, in a New York Times forum on anti-Zionism that demonstrates the shifting discourse in the U.S.