US-Israeli/Palestinian relations
This Is How AIPAC Really Works, The Nation
An AIPAC and Capitol Hill veteran explains the lobby’s tactics of reward and retribution.
What We're Watching
Seeing the Other Side as Human, FMEP
FMEP, Americans for Peace Now and the New Israel Fund hosted an event featuring the Parents Circle Families Forum, a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization made up of more than 600 bereaved families. PCFF’s bereaved members, Robi Damelin and Mazen Faraj shared their stories of loss and their unique choice of reconciliation.
Occupation/Human rights
Forget about dialogue groups, it's time to switch to co-resistance, +972 Magazine
“The ‘coexistence model’ is outdated and misleading. Instead, a Palestinian and an Israeli activist talk about eliminating systems of oppression from the bottom up — together,” write Renad Uri and Omri Evron.
Palestinian vehicles sprayed with Hebrew graffiti in apparent hate crime, Times of Israel
Police on Thursday opened an investigation into an apparent hate crime targeting a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, as Israeli authorities reportedly attempted to crack down on a growing number of attacks attributed to Jewish extremists.
Saudi Prince: Israel ignores Saudi efforts to make peace, Jerusalem Post
Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deceiving the Israeli public into disregarding the “Palestinian issue.”
Peace Now in a precedent-setting case against the new settlement in a-Nahla (Givat Eitam/E2), Peace Now
Peace Now, along with dozens of Palestinian landowners, turned to the Custodian of Government and Abandoned Property demanding that it annul the allocation of 1,200 dunams of land in the Bethlehem area to the Ministry of Housing for the purpose of planning a new settlement.
German bank to determine whether Jewish peace group is anti-Semitic, Local Call
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft says it will conduct a ‘scientific review’ of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East after the group was accused anti-Semitism by a leading Jewish organization over its support for the BDS movement.
Palestinian politics
Palestinians Have No Confidence in the Palestinian President, Ha'aretz
There were strikes and protests this month in Ramallah – and they weren’t against the occupation. Palestinian workers demanded Israel keep their hard-earned social security payments rather than entrust them to the ‘safekeeping’ of its nepotistic proxy – the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli politics
PM says ‘it would certainly help’ if Khan al-Ahmar razed before election, Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that “it would certainly help” if the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar is demolished before the April elections, appearing to suggest the move would improve his standing with certain voters.