“Controversial comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about heavy voter turnout in Israel’s Arab sector were not one-time mistakes but part of a broader strategy executed by the Likud campaign,” writes FMEP’s Mitchell Plitnick

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rejected accusations from Israel that he was “giving terror a tailwind,” reiterating on Wednesday that “nothing, absolutely nothing justifies terrorism.”

“The current U.S. and EU approaches are similar in that both bar producers and exporters of products made in settlements from indicating that the point of origin of the products is Israel. The approaches differ, however, in how far they go. U.S. labeling, in effect, differentiates between Israel on the one hand, and the West Bank/Gaza on the other. The EU differentiates not only between Israel and the West Bank, but within the West Bank between Israeli and Palestinian goods. This difference reflects, fundamentally, the different historical and economic circumstances in which the respective regulations were adopted,” writes APN’s Lara Friedman

The video, which features images of Holocaust deniers Roger Garaudy, Robert Faurisson and David Irving, is just under  three minutes long. Khameini bemoans the fact that ‘speaking about the Holocaust and expressing doubts is considered a great sin’ in the West,” writes Camilla Turner

“Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) is planning to advance a bill to withdraw art funding for those deemed ‘not loyal’ to the State of Israel.”

Ronen Shoval, founder of Im Tirtzu, which recently put up a campaign ‘outing’ left-wing activists (and yesterday went further, smearing some of Israel’s leading artists and intellectuals as ‘traitors’), says history vindicated McCarthyism. Meretz’s Chairwoman Zehava Galon takes to Facebook to give him and fellow right wingers a ‘history lesson.’

“The Israeli authorities impose and impossible daily reality on Palestinian communities in Area C by repeatedly demolishing their homes, constantly threatening further demolition, and other violations of their rights. This governmental policy, implemented systematically for years, constitutes the forced transfer of protected Palestinian residents within the occupied territory,” writes B’Tselem