During an arrest raid in Nablus city, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man in the head, killing him, and reportedly injured two others after running them over with a military jeep. Three days prior, the army shot and killed another Palestinian man in Beita.

Rep. Jim McGovern says he has seen “no evidence” to support Israel’s designation of 6 Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist,” but he muted his criticism of the measure, noting that pro-Israel forces came down on him last month for his “urgent” letter on the subject. McGovern also says that leftwing criticism of J Street trip to Israel, bringing Reps to meet Prime Minister Bennett, was “jarring” and polarizing.

Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken: “The product of Zionism, the State of Israel, is not a Jewish and democratic state, but has instead become an apartheid state, plain and simple.”

While the omicron variant of the coronavirus spread to 57 countries this week, Palestinians announced that so far, “Palestine is free of any infection with the new mutation.”

One of the great reliefs of Gaza’s cold winters is knowing that strawberry season is coming in December.

Israel advocates are pushing a new front. They say that progressive are antisemitic when they characterize Jews as privileged, and don’t acknowledge history and “the unique collective Jewish vulnerability.” So the anti-Zionist understanding that Israel is a powerful settler-colonial state is antisemitic because that leaves out the origins of Zionism in Jewish persecution in Europe, according to Jonathan Greenblatt of ADL and the Reut Group of Tel Aviv.

Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh reflects on the ongoing trauma, and resilience, of life in Gaza following the Israeli attacks in May. “While the international media celebrates the “calm” in Gaza, my family and I are still unable to sleep,” he writes.

Israel announced the completion of a 65-kilometer-long sensor-equipped underground wall and maritime barrier around the besieged Gaza Strip. Not a single mainstream media outlet used the term “concentration camp” to report on it but they should have.

A new arms deal with Saudi Arabia shows that U.S. support for the regime hasn’t faltered.

Democratic congresspeople who opposed arms sales to Saudi Arabia under Trump don’t seem to have the same issues under Biden.