The floodgates have begun to open across Europe on recognition of Palestinian statehood. On Friday the Portuguese parliament became the latest European legislature to call on its government to back statehood, joining Sweden, Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. But while Europe is tentatively finding a voice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, silence reigns across the Atlantic. The White House appears paralysed, afraid to appear out of sync with world opinion but more afraid still of upsetting Israel and its powerful allies in the US Congress.

Steven Salaita’s rude tweets served to change American society on the Gaza onslaught, which should have provoked moral outrage but did not, says UMass philosophy prof Joseph Levine

In recent days, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has offered herself as the great progressive hope of the Democratic Party but remains silence on the Israeli occupation. Well, here’s some encouragement to Warren to move left on the question. Shibley Telhami reports Democratic Party politicians are out of touch with their grass roots on Israel/Palestine. Women, African-Americans, Hispanics and young Dems all want the U.S. to show less favoritism to Israel than it does now.

How do you tell children about the atrocities of Gaza? Emma Williams, Ibrahim Quraishi and Jean Stein came up with the answer: a modern fable for children about the donkey who is painted to look like a zebra to entertain the besieged children in the strip.

“Israel exceptionalism” and the “vengeance of the Jewish establishment” stops liberal Jews who protest police killings in the U.S. from saying a word against the occupation in Palestine, Shaul Magid writes at Tikkun

Sarah Helm’s riveting account of visiting Gaza for Newsweek describes all 1.8 million people as “human shields” because civilians had no place to go when the missiles landed

A group of 20 Zionist scholars has come out for “personal sanctions” against four right-wing Israeli figures, including finance minister Naftali Bennett, in order to end the Israeli occupation and forestall the BDS movement

Legendary director Marcel Ophuls exposes Zionist racism in his projected new film and interviews a Palestinian mother who explains why her sons became militants. All this in the New York Times!

US mainstream media begin to reflect the ‘nightmare’ of Greater Israel, from David Remnick’s one-state reality to the Forward imagining a binational state to a Princeton student coming out for BDS.

Arieh King wants Jerusalem for the Jews but when he comes to NY, the public can’t attend his speech. You have to apply for admission. Desperate times in the Israel lobby.