“The Jewish state is a modern day miracle—a vibrant bloom in the middle of a desert—and we must nurture and protect it,” Hillary Clinton tells Jewish leaders in denouncing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a manifestation of anti-Semitism.

How does this Miko Peled video get 2.7 million views– how is that possible? This isn’t a puppy or music video. Because Muslims want to see a beautiful Israeli Jew discuss his country honestly.

Emad Abu Shamsiya, photographer who documented killing of incapacitated Palestinian by Israeli soldier, has his camera broken by Israeli settlers in occupied Hebron. In a second attack, settlers attacked a photographer documenting the use of dogs by settlers to threaten Palestinian girls.

This week Palestinians will memorialize the starting point of their plight as a stateless people, observing the Nakba, literally “the catastrophe” in Arabic. This year the athletic retailer Reebok was planning a special commemorative sneaker for Israel and its 68th independence in blue and white with “Israel 68” on the sole. But now Reebok is now distancing itself from the Israel shoe. It said in a statement today the footwear was “prepared by an independent designer and should not be presented as a product by the company’s international brand.”

Led by the U.S., the Quartet is preparing a report saying that Israeli settlements are the main obstruction to a peace deal, according to the AP– even as Israel announces another illegal settlement for a population on the West Bank and East Jerusalem, 570,000, as large as that of Milwaukee.

Dahlia Scheindlin and Dov Waxman pushing two confederated states of Israel and Palestine with free emigration between, in the Guardian, sounds fine and dandy. But it’s empty rhetoric till they come up with a notion about how to get Israel to comply with any move toward justice.

Dov Waxman, author of Trouble in the Tribe, tells a New Rochelle synagogue that the Jewish community exercised a “taboo” on criticism of Israel for decades lest signs of Jewish division and even “weakness” would undermine the American government’s support for Israel.

The flap over anti-Zionism in British Labour ranks reveals the degree to which Zionism, or Jewish nationalism in Palestine, which depends on anti-Semitism, has replaced Torah, God, and peoplehood as the definition of Jewishness in European and American Jewish communities.

Netanyahu and a top aide have lectured Europeans about Jewish history lately, Netanyahu to say that Israel has a right to control Jerusalem and Dore Gold implies that the Holocaust is threatened again by European efforts to punish Israel for its settlement policy.

According to International Middle East Media Center, eyewitnesses in occupied Jerusalem said Israeli soldiers kidnapped a child, only 14 years of age, in the Old City, after attacking and beating her. They added that the soldiers took the child to an interrogation center in the city, allegedly after “locating a knife in her purse.”