Critics of Israel have long known Alan Dershowitz’s power to smear their reputations. Now Ronn Torossian, a fellow Israel advocate, accuses Dersh of virulent bullying for calling him a “despicable human being” and lying about his record

A pro-Israel lobby group held packed briefings in the European Parliament last summer during the Gaza onslaught, to describe “inspiring stuff” Israel was doing in technology and to say that Israelis were experiencing “the worst” of a conflict that killed 2300 Palestinians, including nearly 500 children.

USA Today mentions Palestine in a story on Martin Luther King Jr’s living inspiration, and a 1964 speech on South Africa, lately rediscovered, suggests that King would be supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.

A truck-mounted billboard in LA in which Mandela calls for Palestinian freedom has been removed from the streets because of intimidation tactics and graffiti, in a blow to free debate of the conflict

Many Israel supporters say that the French attacks show Jewish insecurity in Europe. The flip side of this argument is that the attacks demonstrate that Israeli discrimination is an anachronism in today’s world, and this widespread understanding is turning the country into a pariah.

It’s a “tragic irony” that Israel which has withstood thousands of terrorist rockets is to be investigated by the International Criminal Court, the US State Department says, fulfilling its role as the defender of the Jewish state

President Obama told Democratic senators he knew they faced donor pressure to ramp up sanctions on Iran. In reporting this, the NYT never mentioned the Israel lobby, which applies that pressure

Shades of Selma: Shmuley Boteach tells two Muslim writers on CNN that they have no right to complain about their freedoms in the US and Israel. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and Rula Jebreal beg to differ.

Netanyahu warned French Jews that they were as unsafe in Paris as Jews in Spain before the inquisition; but his pushiness on the Paris tour is turning into mockery back home

Media have tended to portray Muslim objections to the depiction of the prophet Muhammad as backward and unevolved. It would be better if the media sought to explain how Muslims feel about the matter.