Every Jewish group in the United States is rattled for one reason: Since Donald Trump’s election, 90 bomb threats have been called in to 73 Jewish Community Centers. But while Jewish activists are united in worry over the anti-Semitism, there is is a stark, albeit expected, divide on one question: whether the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel over human rights abuses is helping fuel the uptick in anti-Semitism in the U.S. Right-wing Jewish groups have cast BDS as a threat not only to Israel, but to Jews around the world. Left-wing groups that criticize Israel, though, say that this conflation obscures the roots of anti-Semitism, and is more about shutting up dissent than combatting anti-Jewish hatred.

The battle between donors and progressives inside the Jewish community When Rabbi Shira Stutman told a major donor to the Jewish Federations in Israel that she was going to visit Palestine, the donor said, “Why would you want to talk to them?”

We must reject the “who was here first?” argument about national rights in Palestine. Then we can focus on the real history. Our pasts intersected throughout the centuries. We must stop viewing Palestinian and Jewish histories as competing, mutually exclusive entities.

Medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent said that Hussein Hassan Qawariq, 72, was shot by Israeli forces at the Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus. Qawariq was hit in the foot and pelvis, after Israeli soldiers told him to halt.

Part two of a three-part series on Palestinian sports teams and the BDS struggle looks at the Palestinian Football Association’s efforts at pressuring FIFA to sanction Israel.

A poll, conducted in January and February 2017, exposes a vast divide between Canadian government policy and public opinion when it comes to Israel. The poll found that 66% of respondents who expressed a view consider Canadian government sanctions on Israel to be a reasonable means of ensuring Israel’s compliance with international law. An even higher proportion of respondents (78%) believe that the Palestinian call for a boycott is also a reasonable means of ensuring Israel’s respect for international law. Although a large majority of Canadians are now receptive to sanctions and a boycott, the recently elected government of Justin Trudeau is continuing Stephen Harper’s inglorious tradition of aiding and abetting Israel at every opportunity.

Bernie Sanders set the high water mark for what US pols can say about Palestine, citing 700,000 Palestinian refugees created in Israel’s establishment, in remarks to J Street Monday. He got a standing ovation from Jewish crowd when he said it is not anti-semitic or anti-Israel to criticize the Netanyahu government.

Ilan Pappe: I call upon the German public and media to treat individuals who challenge zionist belief systems fairly, not only but especially within the academia. This entails the space to express their views and to engage in public debate without fearing to be smeared and degraded.

Ilan Goldenberg, Democratic foreign policy hawk, says the US is bombing six countries in the Middle East, and that’s the way our role of guarantor of trade and stability works. And the Iran Deal is “the Obamacare of foreign policy”– Donald Trump won’t be able to rip it up.

The human race is in a state of crisis. Inequality is growing, our planet is dying and we are divided, lonely and frightened. Abandoning notions of individualism within a rigid hierarchical system and embracing egalitarian collaboration and movement building can lead to the formation of novel, transformative and sustainable approaches, which can break the cycle of violence and inequality