As Israel experiences its greatest crisis in 50 years, the Israel lobby has risen to the occasion. But despite its best efforts, the lobby is now up against foes it has never had before, and that in the long run will defeat it.

Palestinians didn’t even get lip service from Joe Biden in his meeting with Netanyahu, promising a White House visit. Biden threw liberal Zionists and Israeli protesters under the bus to keep AIPAC’s support.

The heroes of “60 Minutes” report on Israeli protests were reservists refusing to serve. “If you want pilots to be able to fly and shoot bombs and missiles into houses knowing they might be killing children, they must have the strongest confidence in the people making those decisions,” says a helicopter pilot.

Netanyahu’s hasbara minister says there is no occupied land in Palestine and peddles Zionist mythology. “We haven’t stolen anything…. This house is ours by deed.”

Even as the Israeli government pushes Palestinians out of large portions of the West Bank, Joe Biden seeks to normalize Netanyahu. He is sure to meet with him later this month at the U.N. Lauding Israeli “democracy” is the Democratic Party line in defiance of its own base. And liberal Zionists go along.

Joe Biden can’t criticize Netanyahu and support the protest movement in Israel. No, only American Jewish groups have that power, former PM Ehud Barak says.

Shira Klein, a chief drafter of a letter attacking Jewish support for “apartheid,” saysThe list of signers of an Israeli scholars’ letter attacking Jewish support for “apartheid” reveals “the absolute fear” inside the Jewish community — many are afraid to sign the letter lest it damage their careers.

American liberal Zionists are turning on Israel, thanks to the fascism of the Netanyahu government and the Israeli protests. They are denouncing Israeli “apartheid” and calling for boycott and sanctions against Israel for its human rights abuses.

This was the week Israelis turned on the Israel lobby, but an AIPAC delegation to Israel showed that Democrats aren’t ready to cut ties just yet.

The Israeli government’s defiance of American Jewish opinion in passing a law gutting judicial independence represents a huge crisis for American Zionists.