You know the name Sheldon Adelson. But how about the Falic family? Members of the Falic family have donated millions of dollars to pro-Israel U.S. politicians from both parties and to pro-Israel causes, including West Bank settlements. The family made their money through Duty Free America, which operates stores in airports around the U.S and the world where consumers buy tax-free products.

The center in the Israel Palestine discourse is collapsing — witness Peace Now’s latest letter, a plea for irrelevance that channels Henny Youngman and makes no reference at all to Israel’s political crisis or the settlements, lest folks should start to argue

Israeli-American writer Caroline Glick says that Jews have claimed Israel for 3500 years so they are the indigenous people of the land; and thus the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were expelled in 1948 are not refugees.

All the free-speech rules go out the window for Israel. You can make a movie about killing a foreign dictator and the president will stand up for you, but if you liken Israel to ISIS, as Chris Hedges did, then you get disinvited from a speaking gig at Penn

An email chain expressing concern about Israel’s image in the wake of the Gaza slaughter has been leaked in the recent Sony hacking scandal, and shows Hollywood producers joined with rightwingers in support for the Jewish state.

In a disingenuous ‘NYT’ column Roger Cohen presents a fawning interview of Tzipi Livni and blames the Palestinian Authority for the Spring 2014 collapse of peace negotiations. The article is a recitation of standard Israeli talking points and fails to include Palestinian or American viewpoints which squarely put the failure of negotiations on continued Israeli settlement construction.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says he stopped taunting demonstrators last Saturday because he couldn’t be filmed on Sabbath. The religious claim sounds flimsy and is not borne out by the videotape. He kept shouting even knowing he was being filmed.

Gabriel Snyder, editor of the New Republic, said new writers “will be diverse in race, gender, and background.” The magazine “can no longer afford to represent the views of one privileged class, nor appeal solely to a small demographic of political elites.”

Fired artistic director Ari Roth says security escorted him from Washington DC Jewish center after he bucked its edict not to present any plays about Israel and Palestine

The Gaza slaughter has divided the Jewish community, with mainstream orgs doubling down for Israel; that is why the DC Jewish Community Center fired Ari Roth, theater director and dissident