Liberal Zionist author Eric Alterman tells the Israeli left he’s cutting it out of his will. “I’m sorry, I’m abandoning you and your colleagues. I used to have in my will Israeli peace groups, I’m changing my will and I’m funding American Jewish scholarly and charitable institutions.” Why? “I feel like Israel has said to American Jews, we’re going on our way, and you can take it or leave it.”

After relentless direct action and a number of arrests, Palestine Action has made business in Britain’s capital inoperable for Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems.

The New York Times today was shamed into publishing an investigation into who killed the distinguished Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh — nearly 6 weeks after she died, and after other news organizations investigated and said, an Israeli soldier killed her. The Times echoes those investigations, concluding that the bullet that killed Abu Akleh “was fired from the approximate position of an Israeli military vehicle,” but it does little to expose Israel’s lies and obfuscation in the case.

Throughout her five decade long career, renowned Palestinian artist Samia Halaby has been known for her stunning abstract expressionist works, as well as her outspoken activism. Her latest project, Drawing the Kafr Qassem Massacre, raises the question of how Halaby addresses and locates politics in her work – and whether her Marxist understanding of politics is fast receding from an art world increasingly focused on questions of political efficacy. 

Today’s ‘New York Times’ article on the stalled Iran nuclear deal negotiations could have been ghost-written by Israel’s propaganda apparatus. Its selection of experts is comical: five paragraphs of analysis by Dennis Ross and Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Both are ceaseless advocates for Israel.

National Public Radio aired a long story yesterday featuring a demand by the brother of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh that the United States investigate her killing in Jenin on May 11 and keep Israel out of the case. So some American media continue to seek to undermine Israel’s impunity– and push Joe Biden not to dodge the matter, as he surely wants to.

The three slain Palestinians were identified as Baraa Lahlouh, 24, Yusuf Salah, 23, and Laith Abu Srour, 24, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed this year to 66.

The New England Conference of the United Methodist Church condemned Israel’s apartheid system June 11 by an 88 percent to 12 percent vote. The move comes at a key moment in the movement by Christian churches to attack by name the apartheid treatment of Palestinians. The Presbyterian Church will vote on their apartheid “overtures” in the first week in July, while the Episcopal Church is expected to vote on apartheid the following week.

Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first trip to Palestine as president in July. The visit will serve as yet another message to the Palestinian people that Israel is working hand in hand with the US, and whether a Democrat or a Republican is in the White House, that isn’t going to change.

After the Mapping Project published a study of links between establishment institutions responsible for the colonization of Palestine, and the economy of imperialism and war, and policing and gentrification, critics landed on it as a supposed antisemitic hitlist. We honor the Mapping Project’s work in a tradition of activist journalism; and recognize a familiar pattern: Whenever Israel lobby organizations in the Jewish community are held to account for their power over the discourse and U.S. policy, those same organizations seek to stifle the criticism by alleging antisemitism.