Jodi Rudoren’s recent piece from Jerusalem titled “Rebukes From White House Risk Buoying Netanyahu” is a full-on assault on President Obama for taking on Netanyahu over his repudiation of the two-state solution and his election day racism, and it is disingenuous from start to finish, beginning with the headline. The aim of the piece is to buoy Netanyahu and submarine Obama. Phil Weiss writes he has never seen anything like this before: the top space of the newspaper turned over to a war- and fear-mongering foreign leader to undermine the US president.

Big Jewish donors who support the settlement project in Israel have influenced the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton and major Jewish organizations– surprisingly frank comments by the New York Times and young leaders at J Street’s conference.

Yitzhak Herzog ran scared in the Israeli election. He did not bring up the Palestinian issue, and Netanyahu did, defining the debate in a rightwing manner. Herzog’s failure of leadership reflects his fear of fascist elements in his own society.

Bill Maher says that if the U.S. was in Israel’s position it wouldn’t let Palestinians vote and would maybe “round them up and put them in camps”

Jimmy Carter got exiled for calling Israel an apartheid state 9 years ago. Today Yousef Munayyer, Rula Jebreal and Jim Besser all call Israel that, in the ‘NYT’ and ‘CNN’ and ‘Haaretz’, and there is little resistance. Thanks to Netanyahu

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank writes an important piece saying that Israel needs to exist because his daughter might some day need to be hidden from Nazis in the U.S. This belief, at the core of US Zionism, needs to be debated.

Phil Weiss reports from Israel the day after elections and Israelis have spoken by reelecting Benjamin Netanyahu following a campaign where he incited against Palestinian citizens of Israel and promised to never allow a Palestinian state. A couple of years ago Peter Beinart said that Zionism was in crisis. But that crisis for American Jews is over now. Zionism is what Netanyahu has shown us it is, in his frank calls on Jews to hold the land and deny the vote to non-Jews. This moment is immensely clarifying because it will force American Zionists to say, What is this Jewish democracy, and what are you prepared to do about it?

Many in the Palestinian solidarity community want Netanyahu to stay in office so that Israel is further discredited. That seems nihilist to me; I want the monster gone. So there can be a battle between liberal Zionists and anti-Zionists.

Running like an angry outsider, Netanyahu declared Sunday night at a nationalist Jewish rally that he was the only one who could stand up to Washington’s pressures, that he would keep building in occupied Jerusalem, and he had never evacuated settlers. So why did Obama meet with this man more than a dozen times?

Likely election-winner Isaac Herzog of Labour won’t end the occupation and won’t put political energy into bringing about a Palestinian state because the Israeli people don’t care about peace right now, Daniel Levy and Tal Schneider explain