Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Joe Biden is making his first presidential trip to the Middle East this week, with stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel (with only a quick visit to the occupied West Bank). The usual clouds hover and, in the case of Israel, the biggest is definitely Shireen Abu Akleh.

In a very on-brand move from the Biden administration, the State Department put out a statement on the Shireen Abu Akleh investigation that somehow managed to anger nearly everyone.

Unilever’s decision to allow sales of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in the occupied territories by selling off its arm there to an Israeli company was cheered by Israel lobby groups. But much like General Mills’s recent decision to stop manufacturing Pillsbury products in the occupied territories, the arrangement is in characterized by caveats and vagueness. And it is not a complete defeat for the BDS campaign.

For a while we’ve pointed out how much energy the Anti-Defamation League spends attacking anti-Zionists, including younger Jews, as supposed antisemites. Now the American Jewish Committee has thrown in. I watched a few hours of the AJC’s conference this month in New York, and my jaw dropped as speaker after speaker directed criticism at young Jews for not standing up for Israel.

General Mills claims their decision to shutter a factory in an illegal West Bank settlement wasn’t due to activist pressure, but the company’s logic doesn’t hold up.

Abby Martin Questions Blinken U.S. lawmakers continue to call for an independent investigation into the…

Two congressional letters to the Biden administration on the ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta show the differences within the Democratic Party when it comes to Palestine.

The Biden administration has dropped any sense of urgency when it comes to demanding an investigation for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, even if they won’t admit it.

AIPAC’s tactics are receiving increasing attention within the mainstream.