In what witnesses describe as a targeted attack, Imam Alauddin Akhonji of Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in Ozone Park, Queens, was killed this afternoon walking home from afternoon prayers. The New York Post reports authorities are investigating it as a hate crime, and some residents are blaming Donald Trump.

This weekend the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) overwhelmingly approved two resolutions calling on the U.S. government to end all financial and military aid to Israel until Israel “compl[ies] with internationally recognized human rights standards”, freezes settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land, and for the church to adopt an investment screen to avoid profiting from Israel’s Occupation, at ELCA’s triennial 2016 Churchwide Assembly in New Orleans.

Jerusalem official Meir Turgeman says the municipality is taking advantage of U.S. election season to push forward on stalled construction projects in the occupied territories, including expanding the settlement of Ramot.

An internal Jerusalem department report reveals Israeli border police “initiated friction activity” to deliberately provoke violence in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah, according to Haaretz.

We can’t say enough great stuff about We Are Not Numbers, a project with more than 75 writers from Gaza that aims to share the daily struggles and triumphs of Palestinian life through personal stories anyone can relate to. Annie Robbins writes about the project’s current fundraiser — give them a boost to carry on their important work.

Activists will march from the Mt Kisco train station to Gov. Cuomo’s house next Wednesday night, July 6, to demand that he rescind his executive order barring state business with organizations that support boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Looks like fun!

How in the world does a group of Israeli Jews in the would-be peace camp produce a blatantly bigoted scare video called “Save Jewish Jerusalem,” with Israeli Jewish actors impersonating violent gun wielding Palestinians and purport to be committed to the creation of a viable Palestinian state?

Rabbi Michael Lerner offered great progressive lessons at Muhammad Ali’s funeral yesterday, but they began with his celebration of Muslim and Palestinian equality and condemnation of Netanyahu and “that part of the Israeli government that is oppressing Palestinians”

Dahlia Scheindlin and Dov Waxman pushing two confederated states of Israel and Palestine with free emigration between, in the Guardian, sounds fine and dandy. But it’s empty rhetoric till they come up with a notion about how to get Israel to comply with any move toward justice.

It’s crunch time in California as the ongoing legislative assault against BDS intensifies. The latest incarnation in California’s anti-BDS attack is AB 2844 “California Combating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel Act of 2016,” which is set for a hearing by California’s Judiciary Committee tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19.