The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu used his moral stature to call out and oppose Israeli apartheid, but the U.S. media seem embarrassed about this information. NPR completely leaves it out, while the New York Times and Washington Post and PBS News Hour bury it.

Israeli author Einat Wilf tells the Democratic Party how to give the bad news to Palestinians. “I had to wrestle with the fact that I’m not a nice person. And I accepted it,” she says. So Americans must give “not pleasant” messages to Palestinians, that they need to accept that Zionism is a legitimate “indigenous” movement for Jewish liberation in the Middle East.

Palestinian human rights activist Fadi Quran describes his detention by Homeland Security at the Dallas airport in October at the behest of the Israeli government as a supposed terrorist– a US lieutenant told Quran his hands were tied to interrogate Quran after an ally filed the claim. While Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace says the Biden administration will spend no energy on Palestinian rights.

Any realistic discussion of Iran’s nuclear program ought to include the glaring fact that Israel has 90 nukes, according to experts. But our officials and media always leave Israel’s nukes out. Because acknowledging as much would trigger US laws against giving foreign aid to a country with unauthorized weapons.

The Israeli government minister Nachman Shai says that a “crisis” is coming between the U.S. government and Israel over the Iran deal, and Israel will need American Jews to come to its side. “During many crises… many issues between Israel and the United States, American Jewry has always been there supporting Israel,” he told the Park Avenue Synagogue.

The leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America have participated in one of the most time-tested rituals of those who prioritize cultural clout over political standards: selling out Palestine.

Israel’s threat to attack Iran has been made so many times that it has lost much of its danger to shock — but it would be a huge mistake to dismiss the Israelis’ statements. Even if Bennett is bluffing again, the supercharged atmosphere in the region raises the danger of a terrible accident. What’s more, Israel continues its violent sabotage program against Iran.

DSA is overhauling its endorsement process over Bowman saga, but they won’t expel him from the organization.

The Israel lobby group J Street initially joined an international chorus condemning Israel’s designation of Palestinian human rights orgs as “terrorist.” Then in November, the group took a delegation of six Members of Congress to Israel and Palestine and met with several Palestinian civil society and human rights groups– but none of the six designated groups– and on that trip, the delegation was briefed by Israeli government officials about the “secret evidence” in support of the terrorist designation, a source who was not on the trip tells me. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s disclosure statement from the trip supports that assertion: She says the delegation received “briefings on Israel security” from “senior” government officials.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s recent trip to Israel and his vote for additional Iron Dome funding have prompted dozens of DSA chapters to call for him to be expelled from the organization.