How in the world does a group of Israeli Jews in the would-be peace camp produce a blatantly bigoted scare video called “Save Jewish Jerusalem,” with Israeli Jewish actors impersonating violent gun wielding Palestinians and purport to be committed to the creation of a viable Palestinian state?

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai has said bravely that murders in Israel will continue as long as the occupation does; but US publications are loath to make such an assertion. Ben Ehrenreich changed that trend, by publishing a devastating critique of the occupation in Politico this week.

When Elliott Abrams says that Dov Waxman has given “Bad Jews” a platform in his new book, Trouble in the Tribe, he is shooting the messenger: American Jews are increasingly troubled by Israeli behavior and seek other ways of being Jewish than harping on anti-Semitism and Jewish nationalism.

Jane Eisner of the Forward urges American Jews to “boycott” and perform “acts of civil disobedience” and not negotiate or compromise with the Israeli government in order to gain gender equality of prayer at the western wall, but it denies those options to Palestinians who are living under occupation. Liberal ethnocentrism at work.

In occupied Yatta, Israeli forces raided the town and took measurements of Muhammad Moussa Makhamreh’s home, the father of suspected attacker Khalid Makhamreh, in preparations for a punitive home demolition expected to be carried out on Monday.

The Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City was cleared of its Palestinian inhabitants on the eve of the Ramadan holiday, June 5, to make way for a flag procession by Jewish religious nationalists. Some celebrants distributed stickers calling for “transfer” of Palestinians, while a Netanyahu minister called for seizing “sovereignty” of the Muslim noble sanctuary in the Old City to rebuild a Jewish temple. Watch this shocking video by Dan Cohen and David Sheen from this year’s Jerusalem Day march.

Scholar and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner and associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, has endorsed BDS and the cultural and academic boycott of Israel in support of Palestinian rights. “Always remember, never forget. These powerful words compel us to think about both the injustices of the past and the injustices of the present. One of those contemporary injustices that we struggle to remember is the Israeli occupation and the deprivation of Palestinian rights. For any of us concerned with justice, the imperative is clear: we must stand with the disempowered and the forgotten against militarism and the state,” said Nguyen.

In the wake of the massacre at the Pulse nightclub, G4S stock prices fell as people learned that the Orlando shooter was an employee of the company. Kali Rubaii says it is a sign that the world sees the direct links between corporate profit and mass violence, and now is the time for policy change to stop unconditional support for the Security-Industrial Complex.

Longtime peace processor Dennis Ross drops all pretense to being an honest broker, telling an off-the-record meeting of American Jews, “We don’t need to be advocates for Palestinians. We need to be advocates for Israel,” because Palestinians have “plenty” of advocates already.

On Wednesday June 15, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent anti-BDS executive order galvanized a diverse coalition of nearly 200 —Palestine solidarity activists, civil liberties defenders, faith organizations, elected officials, antiwar groups and more—to travel from across the state to Albany on Wednesday to deliver a petition calling on Governor Cuomo to rescind the order. Mark Mishler, an activist with the Albany chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, called Cuomo’s actions “frightening,” but marveled at the organized activist pushback. “What Governor Cuomo did is gave us all strength to come together,” Mishler told Mondoweiss. “Whether we all agree on everything or not, we certainly all agree that it is wrong for Governor Cuomo to think that he can silence people who are speaking up for human rights.”