“I believe there is no weapon more powerful in the fight against BDS than for Israel to develop technologies that the world cannot live without,” Alan Dershowitz says, but the air-to-water technology he touts is being developed in many places in the world.

The Lebanese al-Mayadeen news channel published on Monday a leaked new charter for the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. The charter was allegedly planned to be officially released by Khalid Mashaal, the president of the political office of Hamas, at his last press conference before leaving office. The document has since been confirmed by Hamas official Ahmad Yousif. Mondoweiss obtained the details of the charter released by al-Mayadeen and translated the full text.

Liz Rose reflects on the 2017 JVP membership meeting in Chicago: “Stefanie Fox, Deputy Director at JVP, also critiqued the power structures that drive Israeli politics in her opening remarks at Saturday’s plenary. Fox talked about her own process of getting ‘past the layers of denial,’ and moving to the place where she could ‘acknowledge what had been stolen.’ Quoting from Adrienne Rich’s poem, ‘Diving into the Wreck,’ Fox read, ‘I came to explore the wreck,’ and she beautifully connected Rich’s poem to her own ‘understanding the wreck of Zionism.'”

On Friday, in a partial victory for the American Studies Association, a district court in Washington D.C. dismissed plaintiffs’ claim that the organization operated beyond its corporate charter by passing a resolution endorsing the academic boycott of Israel in 2013.

Amira Hass reports for Haaretz: “In 2013, a UNICEF report said Israel was systematically abusing young detainees, new data shows little has changed.”

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed cohorts of Israel loyalists in the United States by video link last week at the annual conference of Aipac, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. They should, he said, follow his government’s example and defend Israel on the “moral battlefield” against the growing threat of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. In Netanyahu’s simple-minded language, support for Palestinian rights, and opposition to the settlements, is equivalent to “delegitimisation” of Israel. Jonathan Cook writes that the current obsession with BDS reflects a changing political environment for Israel.

Haley’s quarter-of-an-hour talk at the convention was a rather unbelievably bellicose, chauvinist, bigoted and racist run. She said her high heels were made for kicking, and bragged about booting the most moderate Palestinian leader of all, Salam Fayyad, from a UN position.

Four Palestinian leaders and activists from Hebron were held in Israeli prison for five days, their crime — planting olive trees on private Palestinian land at risk of being confiscated by the Israeli government.

“Liberals who for years on end warn Israel about the future are just afraid to admit that the future has long since arrived.” Larry Derfner, a prominent American-turned-Israeli journalist, has written a brave and compelling new memoir that indicts liberal Zionism.

The Israeli ‘Peace Camp’ should draw conclusions from its failure to end occupation. The overwhelming majority of Israelis have consistently failed to take to the streets. To challenge this Israeli passivity, Israeli activists should focus on direct solidarity actions in the occupied Palestinian territories.