Israelis live in a bubble of impunity and so international pressure must be brought so they pay a price for the occupation, or nothing will change, says Colette Avital, a former Israeli diplomat

Lillian Rosengarten reflects on the blackout by the mainstream press of her wrenching memoir, Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza

New York Times dispatches a reporter to describe the quarantining of Netanyahu’s dog for biting guests at a Hanukkah party even as it ignores important Palestinian stories, including that of a brother and sister, 22 and 17 respectively, killed 5 weeks apart by Israeli occupying forces.

The racist policies Trump recommends are already in practice in Israel. Even the State Department has blasted Israel for denying “entry or exit without explanation”– notably to “those whom Israeli authorities suspect of being of Arab, Middle Eastern, or Muslim origin.”

Hatred of Israel reportedly played a part in Syed Farook’s terrorist rampage in San Bernardino last week. The US press seems to ignore this angle, as it would require showing the damage that the special relationship with Israel helps to bring to Americans, going back to 9/11 and Robert Kennedy’s assassination.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof slips a bit of irrelevant hasbara into a column on Syrian refugees, saying that they are grateful to Israel for helping them, and if the US had done as much, it could have saved Anne Frank

Donald Trump’s quips about the Republican Jewish Coalition’s deal-making prowess yesterday was an accurate description of the Israel lobby’s use of money to commit politicians to pro-Israel positions.

Former Jerusalem bureau chief Steve Erlanger says he reached out to Ghada Karmi to visit her former house in West Jerusalem in 2005 “as a human gesture, not a polemical one,” because she hadn’t been able to do so before

Trump will meet Netanyahu later this year, he said last night. The Israeli Prime Minister “has absolutely no support from President Obama. Absolutely none.”

The controversial NYTimes reporter Jodi Rudoren says Mondoweiss was wrong about her recent article on Israel’s attempt to recreate ancient wine.