Norman Braman, the FL businessman who is backing Marco Rubio, is Israel-centric: If the U.S. falls economically that’s a “danger to the state of Israel,” the UN is a “disgrace” with one purpose, to discredit Israel, and anti-Semites around the world are trying to end the country’s existence. But the New York Times won’t tell you any of this.

WI Gov Scott Walker wears jeans touring occupied territory in Golan Heights on overseas trip to Israel designed to overcome his shortcomings, lack of foreign-policy experience

Any decent person you meet in the west has a clear view of Israel/Palestine, but the elites do not reflect that opinion, Ilan Pappe says. The media must therefore discuss the root causes of the conflict, Zionism and colonialism, and liberal Zionists must join with anti-Zionists to support human rights

There are a lot of elephants running around the room in a piece in the New York Times today titled, “Billionaire lifts Marco Rubio, Politically and Personally.” The piece has one glancing reference to Norman Braman’s ardor for Israel but fails to say Rubio traveled to Israel with Braman after being elected to the Senate in 2010 and his Iran views seem to reflect Braman’s.

The Nation affirms the right of return as a ‘central tenet of the Palestinian national narrative’ in a stirring piece by Rula Jebreal that marks a historic shift in the magazine’s progress away from Zionism

Scott Walker needs rightwing Jewish money to mount a serious campaign for presidency, so he’s going on his first trip to Israel, where he will meet Benjamin Netanyahu and Elliott Abrams. Walker is competing for Paul Singer’s money, and Sheldon Adelson’s.

Katie Miranda writes an open letter to Pamela Geller inviting her to visit her mosque so that Geller can experience what an actual Muslim-American community looks like. Miranda says it is not the caricature Geller rails against in her quest for attention and provocation, and in fact Geller may leave with a new perspective on life.

The US press celebrated the Joint Arab List as a sign of Israeli democracy before the March election. Now that it’s being completely dealt out of coalition discussions for the new government, shouldn’t the press be mentioning this apartheid policy?

The Iraq war is a glorious event for neoconservatives, which is why Jeb Bush has embraced his brother George after distancing himself for months. He needs money from Paul Singer and other members of the Israel lobby.

The announcement of Israel’s far rightwing government, committed to taking over the West Bank, is a boon to the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement and a crisis for liberal Zionists who hang on to the dream of a two-state solution. Israel continues to drive itself off the rails of world opinion. When will the liberal Zionists take action?