Activists groups are calling on President Barack Obama to launch an investigation into the death of Mahmoud Shaalan, a Palestinian-American teenager killed by the Israeli military in February.

New York Times reporters Mark Landler and Mark Mazzetti write that President Obama’s Syria policy is unchanging, a fact “that frustrates many analysts because they believe that a shift in policy will only come when Mr. Obama leaves office.” But readers will learn nowhere in this article that other analysts argue persuasively that Obama’s hesitation to add even more fuel to the flames in Syria is the right thing to do.

Groups closely aligned with the far-right Israeli government have declared “lawfare” on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Canada. Recent events in Canada’s parliament, the Ontario Legislature and on Canadian campuses reveal the increasingly forceful trajectory of this strategy.

Read part two of a lengthy interview with Guantanamo defense lawyer Major Todd Pierce (Retired) in which he relates his beliefs about American society today: that our wars in the Middle East have been fostered by propaganda and falsehood, including claims about radical Islam, and that the elites have fallen in line in a way that they did not do during Vietnam, and these developments threaten our democracy.

Israel supporter Seffi Kogen writes at the Forward that Jewish students want to be involved with progressive causes on campus, and the pro-Israel cause too. But it’s impossible to reconcile these political programs.

Israeli forces raided Sa’ir village, and the home of Fadi Faroukh, who was shot and killed in November 2015, near a Hebron settlement, and posted threatening leaflets in the village in an apparent first run of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s new policy of carrot-and-stick toward good and bad Palestinian villages.

“Many of my [leftwing Israeli] peers have left, are leaving, are planning to leave or are talking about leaving,” Mairav Zonszein writes in the Forward, breaking an explosive story about political intolerance in Israel that the New York Times is incapable of reporting.

Liberal Zionists blame the occupation for Israel’s woes, when they should blame the ideology of Zionism. As Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said in 1967, when the occupation began: “I want them [Palestinians] all to go, even if they go to the moon.”

Obama made no progress on Israel and Palestine in the last 7-1/2 years, Debra DeLee of the liberal Zionist group Peace Now says, but he can make a “gift” to the next president in the last three months of office by taking steps against settlements and for the two-state solution at the U.N.

There’s an average of 2 incidents of settler violence per week in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the UN. But Israeli police investigate only one in 50 of Palestinian complaints, says a new study by the Alternative Information Center.