In her first address in an American synagogue since becoming a Member of the Knesset, Aida Touma-Sliman ripped into the new Jewish Nation State Law, which she said normalized discrimination and Jewish supremacy, and finally dispensed with equality as a normative value of Israel. “I meet a lot of Jews back home who say we need a Jewish State as an insurance policy, in case something goes wrong,” she told the audience at Temple Israel of New Rochelle. “But why should I pay the price of your insurance policy?”

The illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel is marking is marking its 40th birthday. In the span of a few decades it has grown into one of the largest Israeli communities in the West Bank with a theater, a university and plans to increase its population to the size of a formidable city of 100,000.

Earlier this year Abier Almasri left Gaza and journeyed to Jerusalem for the first time. The cities are only about about 50 miles apart, yet it took Abier three decades to get there. “I just hope to have the chance to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque before I die,” she had told a friend. And she finally got that chance.

Mary Ann Weston explores the history of the Seraj Library Project, a non-profit founded by Estephan and Laurie Salameh that created eight libraries across the West Bank including branches in Palestinian refugee camps.

Palestinian artist and college student from Gaza, Malak Mattar, was denied a visa to the UK and France where her paintings are on display. The artists said on social media that the UK rejection letter indicated that it did not believe she was a real college student.

Uri Davis writes Israel’s Nation State Law is exactly in tune with the values outlined during Israel’s founding. In fact the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel passed in 1948 never established a principle of equality or respect of national or ethnic origin.

Writers Jamie Stern-Weiner and Muhammad Shehada are preparing a book on the Great March of Return in Gaza, aimed at vindicating the heroism and the martyrdom of the participants, and they issue a call for testimonies and diaries from participants in the march.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak loved Donald Trump’s warning that in a one-state solution, the Israeli Prime Minister would be named Mohammed. It goes to show that liberal Zionists are just as racist when it comes to Palestinian rights as rightwing Zionists are.

A social media debate over the most effective way to discuss Palestinian resistance leads Steven Salaita to reflect on examine the uses of language in political activism: “Communicating to people in the West is important—even better if they decide to listen. I submit instead that it’s not the responsibility of dispossessed people to assure their oppressors’ comfort.  In the end, if arbiters of respectable opinion won’t accept Palestine’s national liberation movement as it actually exists, then it’s not because of language, but a fundamental difference of politics.”

As the long-fought battle to save the village of Khan al-Ahmar from demolition continues, another fight is taking place on the sidelines — one that could have life changing effects on the fate of the Bedouins in Khan al-Ahmar, and the future of the occupied West Bank.