A new billboard at the U of South Florida in Tampa says 10,000 students’ demand for divestment from companies complicit in human rights violations in Palestine has been dismissed by the school without consideration

This powerfully moving video of a flashmob in Nazareth by the recent Dream Defenders delegation to Israel/Palestine is an earth shifter: “From Ferguson to Palestine the struggle for freedom continues”

Jon Stewart references Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh in a story on the flagrant hypocrisy of world leaders attending the march for unity in Paris. Saba’aneh was arrested and detained by Israel in February 2013.

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris last week Haaretz published a daring cartoon juxtaposing journalists killed in Gaza by Israel last summer during the brutal summer slaughter with the journalists killed at the office of the satirical magazine in Paris. This set off a chain reaction which ultimately led to calls for murdering Haaretz journalists after Ronen Shoval, founder of the neo-Zionist and proto-fascist, Im Tirtzu movement, called for an investigation of the newspaper’s editors.

Reporters pressed State Dep’t’s Jen Psaki over a “double standard” — her threat to assistance to Palestine over its decision to take international legal steps even as the U.S. has never threatened aid to Israel over its neverending construction of settlements in occupied territories

On Friday, American security personnel accompanying staff from the United States Consulate in Jerusalem drew their weapons on violent Israeli settlers who attacked a two vehicle U.S. convoy outside the Palestinian town of Turmusaya in the West Bank. Consulate staff were investigating a incident which took place on private Palestinian land on the first night of 2015 when six thousand recently planted olive saplings were uprooted, and dozens of old olive trees were destroyed by violent Jewish settlers from an illegal outpost the Adei Ad near Turmusaya. Officials from Turmusaya notified the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem and requested an investigation because some of the owners of the land are Palestinian-Americans. When the U.S. delegation arrived in the area to investigate settlers started hurling stones at the convoy.

Gaza produced ‘tenfold’ increase in level of hatred toward Israel, Cary Nelson marvels in Tel Aviv, and Dalit Baum responds: “You ask why there is more criticism of Israel in the world? Because of Israeli policies!”

In a brave act of resistance, over fifty alumni, former educators and staff members of the Israel Arts and Science Academy, Jews and Palestinians, have published a letter calling the high-school community – students and alumni alike – to refuse service in the Israeli military.

The west didn’t try to “weaken” Hitler in WW2 but destroy him; and Israel must undertake the same approach with Hamas, says Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of the Knesset and a Likud leader

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says he stopped taunting demonstrators last Saturday because he couldn’t be filmed on Sabbath. The religious claim sounds flimsy and is not borne out by the videotape. He kept shouting even knowing he was being filmed.