Carly Fiorina promises to make Israel her first phone call as president. Mike Huckabee is “just nuts” about Israel. Jeb Bush calls settlements “apartments.” Ben Carson wants to transfer the Palestinians to Egypt. Marco Rubio has taken to dining with top-donor Sheldon Adelson. Ted Cruz is making the rounds with Fire Island’s pro-Israel community. And, Lindsey Graham who has not announced his bid, said if he is president he will have the first “all-Jewish” cabinet. As it shapes up, the Republican field in the 2016 U.S. presidential race is looking to be one of the most fiercely pro-Israel in memory.

Jodi Rudoren plays down rightwing elements in Israeli society. Last week she said only a “small strain” wants the West Bank in Jewish hands, today she buries and then whitewashes the rightwing views of Ayelet Shaked, Netanyahu’s choice for justice minister. Shaked has made genocidal statements that Israel is “at war” with the “entire Palestinian people,” including elderly.

Elizabeth Warren attended an AIPAC event Monday at which Sen. Lindsey Graham said that everything in the Middle East that begins with “Al” is bad news. Will the progressive senator condemn these comments?

To understand Pamela Geller’s racism, we need to understand how her actions affect Muslims. But the NYT profile of the provocateur quotes not a single person to explain how they respond to her baiting.

The great spiritual challenge to Jews is to deal with our actual status in western societies. What would the American Jewish community look like today if we moved beyond viewing ourselves as the eternal victim? And what would happen to the Israel lobby? A response to David Bernstein’s charge in the Washington Post that Phil Weiss is an anti-Semite.

Jimmy Carter’s statement that Gaza situation is “intolerable” is lead of Guardian story, last paragraph of Washington Post. And you wonder why Washington is in a bubble

Fareed Zakaria rebuked Haim Saban’s criticism of him for being “anti-Israel” by saying that the occupation is a “cancer,” Israel faces a future where 10 million can’t vote; and no, you can’t have the microphone! And Rep. Donna Edwards is criticized in the Washington Post for being insufficiently supportive.

Bernie Sanders voted against the Iraq war but he defended Israel’s actions against Gaza last summer against his own angry leftwing base in Vermont, some of whom he told to “Shut up”

Disaster-washing: Israel can’t stop promoting its efforts to help Nepal earthquake victims, trying to make the world forget about the human rights devastation it created in Gaza

A main-stage debate is beginning between liberal Zionists and non- and anti-Zionists. Here are two videos that show the continuous human rights abuses of Jewish nationalism, from 1950 to 2012; how can liberals call themselves liberals and support that ideology?