The covert alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel should be no surprise to any student of British imperialism. The British Empire’s drive to impose Zionism in Palestine is embedded in the geographical DNA of contemporary Saudi Arabia.

Recent Israeli efforts to fight BDS smell of deep despair, which is giving rise to hopeless aggression, even worse bullying and patently irrational measures that can only help BDS to grow in the coming few years. Particularly noteworthy are reports on the Knesset’s anti-BDS caucus meeting which convey the universal sense in Israel of failure to stem the BDS movement’s growth and the admission that the impact of BDS may be growing beyond control.

Armed white militia members are allowed to take over federal land while communities of color are under assault in the USA. Katie Miranda looks at the state of the union 2016.

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Bethany Koval, a 16-year-old high school student in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, was targeted for her political activism yesterday. Koval’s commentary of the Gaza beach bombing resulted in her being called down to the principle’s office, intimidated, threatened with legal action. As Koval tweeted her experience, activists on social media swiftly rallied in support and started a hashtag, #IStandwithBenny. News of her harassment spread like wildfire nationally and internationally.

When Israel denies UN claims of human rights atrocities in Palestine, the New York Times gives ample space to the denials. When Saudi Arabia denies atrocities in Yemen — also committed with US military aid — the NYT doesn’t give them the time of day.

A Palestinian was arrested by Israeli police after an alleged attempted stabbing close to Armon Hanatziv, an illegal Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. In almost every other case, such suspects have been shot

The best analogy of Israel to the civil rights struggle is the Palestinian citizens of Israel, 20 percent of the population of the so-called Jewish state who are not Jewish, says former civil rights worker Dorothy Zellner

Carlos Latuff explores the debate among US presidential candidates over the US/Israel relationship.

Ari Shavit attempts to silence Breaking the Silence by employing an inappropriate biblical quote in his Ha’aretz column and calling for “unending devotion to the Zionist enterprise”