It was a week of glaring double standards that made a mockery of U.S. favoritism…

This week we saw the inevitable debate over Israeli apartheid begin to come to the U.S. Congress.

The Israeli settler attack on Hafez Huraini resonates with stories of human rights abuses throughout history.

If there was any doubt as to the extent Israeli apartheid infiltrated the most personal and intimate aspects of the lives of Palestinians then those doubts ought to be banished by a story this week.

It’s been almost one month since Israel’s last war in Gaza, euphemistically called “Operation Breaking Dawn,”ended. It bears repeating that 49 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes during that three-day assault. Seventeen of those killed by American-made and supplied weapons were children.

There is no type of advocacy for Palestine that Israel can tolerate. And as long as Israel won’t tolerate it, the United States is more than happy to go along, because anti-Palestinianism is as American as apple pie.

This week Israel did the unconscionable and shut down the offices of seven Palestinian human rights groups that are doing valiant work in the occupied territory. People ask why Israel would do such a thing, and the simple answer is Zionism.

It’s been nearly two weeks since Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza concluded and as ought to be expected from prior experience, there doesn’t seem to be any exploration of the moral dimension of Israel’s behavior on the part of the Jewish-American pro-Israel bloc.

Again, the self-proclaimed “Israel Defense Forces,” are pulverizing Gaza.

If you want to get your heart broken, you only need to watch a few moments of the press conference the family of Shireen Abu Akleh gave outside the Capitol on Thursday demanding U.S. action, more than two months after an Israeli soldier shot the renowned journalist in Jenin and the Israeli government washed its hands of responsibility.