A chorus of voices say a “chasm” is growing between Israel and the United States because young Jews are increasingly marrying out of the tribe so they don’t care so much about the place. Newsweek does readers the great favor of listing the tab of U.S. expenditure on behalf of Israel– more than any other country since World War II– and suggesting that Israel prepare to give up that assistance.

Maragret Cassar writes, “The state where I live, South Australia, has a long and proud history of firsts especially in the area of social justice. In 1856 South Australia was the first state to introduce universal male suffrage. In an Australian first, women were admitted to degree courses at universities in 1882. It was a world first in 1895 when women were able to vote and permitted to stand for Parliament in South Australia.

This proud history gained a new entry on June 22, 2017, when the South Australian Parliament passed a landmark motion calling on the Australian government to recognize the State of Palestine just as it recognizes the State of Israel.”

“The Palestinian Authority, a historically toothless government operating within the confines of Israeli control and authority in the entirety of historic Palestine, may not be long for the world,” writes Luke Peterson, “But change may well be in the air as regards the stultified and ineffective government. Public confidence in the integrity and efficacy of the Palestinian Authority amongst the Palestinians in the West Bank is at an all-time low and faith in the ability (or even desire) of PA officials to steer Palestine into an improved economic and political future is all but nonexistent. Years of bureaucratic bloat, nepotistic policy, and corruption have turned Palestinians against their elected leadership. Harsh crackdowns on free speech (to include the policing of social media sites), the enrichment of the elites at the expense of the public good, and complicity in Israeli occupation policies are to blame. As a result, references to ‘Palestinian Democracy’ are laughed off by the public at large.”

After demonstrators torched two European embassies in Damascus in 2006 in rage over Muhammad cartoons in the western press, then-President George W. Bush told Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, “We need to cut their heads off,” she recalls at an American Jewish Committee conference. And she seems to approve of the idea.

The three Israeli Palestinians who killed Israeli forces at the Al Aqsa mosque Friday used violent resistance against the presence of police at the entrance to what they consider a holy site, says Gideon Levy, but even to discuss their motives is considered treason or a justification of terror.

Six months after I complained that wines labelled “Made in Israel” in Ontario stores were the products of illegal settlements, the Canadian food inspection agency ruled that the wines were falsely labeled and instructed the Ontario liquor board to cease imports of the wines. Within hours B’nai Brith Canada had posted it on its Facebook page, stating confidently that the outrageous directive would be quashed by day’s end. It soon was.

Israel’s top diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotoveli waves the bible and an empty book of Palestinian history at Palestinian-Israeli Members of Knesset and tells them they don’t exist, and then says they are trying to Islamicize the holy sites and eradicate the Jewish connection to them.

It has been three years since the most infamous atrocity of the Gaza onslaught, the killing of the four Bakr boys on the beach by an Israeli missile. A child psychologist tells an Irish documentary that surviving children “lost their minds” and she was unable to treat them for their trauma.

One of Mondoweiss’s most dedicated readers wrote to us: “I am constantly outraged and devastated by the abuses Palestinians confront, and I know that informing the widest possible audience is the best way to challenge the regime oppressing them. So I’m issuing a challenge. I will match every gift you receive by the end of July, up to a total of $5,000.” Can you step up and meet the challenge? Whatever you give by the end of July will have double the impact.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi writes, “By suing SFSU administrators and naming me, this legal bullying attempts to pick up where other members of the pro-Israel network previously failed, namely get rid of me, dismantle the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program and erase the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) and advocacy for justice in Palestine at SFSU campus. While the lawsuit names several SFSU administrators and staff, Campus Watch, David Horowitz and other Zionist groups have focused their Twitter campaigns on me and GUPS. AMCHA, Horowitz, Canary Mission, Stand With Us, Zionist Organization of America, Campus Watch, the David Project, and the Middle East Forum have launched one smear campaign after another to extinguish the Palestinian activism and advocacy for Palestine on campus.”