Since the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 by an Israeli…

Arabs are threatening to take over Israel and reduce the Jewish state to a 60-mile stretch of land on the coast, Defense Minister Benny Gantz warns a party meeting, reading out a crazed and surely-fake rant he received on WhatsApp. The Defense minister’s feverish credulity shows how unhinged and dangerous the thinking of Israel’s leaders is. But who is paying attention?

An estimated 70,000 Israeli settlers participated in the annual flag march in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, with some crowds chanting “Death to Arabs.” Hundreds of Palestinians have been injured across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as Israeli forces suppressed protests that erupted in response to the march. Follow here for news throughout the day.

Palestinian injuries in Gaza have not healed yet from last year’s Israeli assault and there is now fear of a coming war. In Gaza, there is no post-traumatic stress disorder because war is never over.

On May 29th, fascist Zionist settlers held a flag march throughout Palestinian areas of Jerusalem’s Old City. Rotted to the core with colonial racism, this march was intended to celebrate Zionist forces’ seizure of East Jerusalem in 1967. But in the seeming surety of escalating violence, an anxiety about belonging lurks. A state defined by and through the negation of the native, through sanctioned racism and supremacy, is a state running on borrowed time. The settlers may have marched on Sunday. And they may have waved their flags. But their flag, like their state, will fall.

83 congressional Democrats call on Biden to stop Israel from forcibly displacing 1,000 Palestinians from Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank.

Harvard University faculty and officers issue an open letter in support of the Harvard Crimson’s endorsement of BDS, and student efforts to oppose Israeli apartheid. They write to counter a faculty letter deploring the Crimson endorsement in which “the only violence mentioned is that of antisemitism, the only threat identified is to the Jewish national project, and the only vulnerability named is that faced by ‘Jewish and Zionist students.’”

Ameen Nayfeh’s “200 Meters” is the rare Palestinian-made film that has been widely programmed at Jewish film festivals. The reviews from these screenings show the American Jewish community’s inability to see the Israeli occupation for the brutal human rights travesty it is, and an inability to see Palestinians as equals.

CPAC’s rightwing gathering in Hungary this week was rightly criticized because of the ethnonationalist bigotry of Hungary’s prime minister. But the racist rhetoric Israeli politicians regularly deploy against Palestinians is not very different– they are a demographic threat or deserve another Nakba — and has helped to earn Israel the label of apartheid state. Democrats ought to heed the example, and stay away. But Biden is bound and determined to visit this summer.

The Biden administration has dropped any sense of urgency when it comes to demanding an investigation for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, even if they won’t admit it.