The flat assumption in a NYT piece that Netanyahu can turn the volume up or down in Congress at will may be a true assumption. But why aren’t the networks telling us this? And where is the outrage?

The opposition to Obama’s Iran deal is flailing. The neoconservatives say that he is Neville Chamberlain trusting the Nazis, and a bad golfer. But Obama has the center and the left, Trita Parsi says. Though maybe not the New York Times.

In a NY Review of Books piece that describes “proto-fascist” currents in the last Israeli election, David Shulman never uses the nickname “Bibi” for Netanyahu. But the editors of the journal do so twice in headlines, surely out of some lingering affection for the Jewish strongman

A March 2015 Pew research poll shows Americans sympathize with Israel more than Palestinians; but among Democrats the numbers are close, 57-54; and liberal Dems actually sympathize with Palestinians more, 68-60

Obama won the Iran deal by assembling a centrist-liberal coalition over the last eight weeks of Netanyahu blunders. That group includes Hillary Clinton, J Street, the New York Times, Chris Matthews, Jonathan Chait– many of whom supported the Iraq war.

When Indiana passes a discriminatory law, many states and companies issue a boycott against the state inside of a week. But there have been boycott calls against Israel for far harsher discriminatory practices for many years, and our politicians oppose them. Double standard.

Reports from Lausanne are that Iran and the P5+1 are inching toward a vague agreement with details to be worked out in the next 3 months, and Congress doing its utmost to nitpick the deal in weeks to come

Hillary Clinton has decided to run for president, according to a secret “eyes on the prize” memo obtained by Mondoweiss. The email to Clinton today from her longtime adviser Ann Lewis says the Clinton team will have a “wildly successful” campaign if it can stick to “the recipe from tried and true campaign plans” to meet a $1 billion fundraising goal. That “recipe” may surprise you, or not.

Comedy Central stands by Jon Stewart’s replacement Trevor Noah as rightwing sites suggest he has a “Jewish problem.” The real problem is that he is likely to be critical of Israeli militarism

Fifty years after they went south to fight Jim Crow, Ira Grupper, Dorothy Zellner, Larry Rubin and Mark Levy are fighting for Palestine’s freedom with the Open Hillel movement. Hillel International has banned their campus appearances.