Wilson Dizard reports from Day One of the Republican convention which has already featured new heights of bizarre offensiveness. He meets activists from the American southwest who came to Cleveland to protest Trump’s proposal for a wall, which sounds very similar to Israeli separation wall in the West Bank. Rebekah Hinojosa, 25, who lives in the Rio Grande valley in Texas , calls the current wall between the US and Mexico a “monument to racism.”

Members of Israel’s opposition coalition will filibuster overnight to stall a vote on a controversial bill to expand the Knesset’s power to oust one of their own. The expulsion bill, formerly called the suspension bill, grants parliamentarians the authority to permanently kick their peers out of office, without loose criteria for disqualification. It is aimed at one member: Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List.

Israelis have “seen it all” when it comes to terror, the New York Times says, in publishing a lecture from Jerusalem for the French on how to secure the country from “enemies.” There is no mention of occupation or dispossession or conditions that have produced violent Palestinian resistance.

Haaretz has run a series of articles on Israel’s “separate and unequal” education system that allocates more funds to Jewish students than Palestinian students. Hatim Kanaaneh says it’s old news. It’s been this way for the four decades he’s been advocating for Palestinian citizens of Israel. In a state that defines itself as Jewish, what do you expect?

After nine years of Israel’s blockade and consistent assaults on Gaza, Gazans are faced with a financial crisis that impedes on daily and personal decisions leading to disastrous social consequences: young couples lack basic resources to marry and sustain families.

If the slightest doubt remained that Western media defines “terrorism” solely as violence committed by people of specific ethnic groups and cultures, the reaction to the lorry attack in Nice, France, should have completely erased it.

Israel’s human rights NGOs pushed back this week after the Knesset passed a transparency law that critics say was the most recent attempt by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to persecute the country’s left. Leading Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now vowed to wage legal war against the new law, which requires NGOs that receive more than half of their funding from foreign donors to declare their funding sources prior to addressing Knesset committees, speaking with public officials, as well as on publications and websites.

Noura Erakat and Nour Joudah have combined to write a 20-minute film that explains the Israel-Palestine conflict in simple terms, as springing from a settler colonial project that has used the peace process and Hamas rockets as useful distractions from its goal of gaining as much Palestinian land with the minimal number of Palestinians.

Palestinian swimmer Mary al Atrash, 22, is one of six Palestinians competing this year in Rio as part of the largest delegation Palestine has ever sent to the Olympics Games. Al Atrash will compete in the 50 meters freestyle, but her training has been difficult due to the fact that she does not have an Olympic-size pool to train in. Nearby Jerusalem has better facilities, including several Olympic-sized pools, but because of the Israeli occupation al Atrash is unable to travel to Jerusalem to train.

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