Almost 30 percent of respondents to a recent survey have suffered physical attacks. Read more about Bias against Muslims rampant in “liberal” California 

Reports on the killing of four young Palestinians in recent days were heavily reliant on Israeli military sources. Read more about How the media let Israel get away with murder 

The Palestinian Authority is confiscating privately-owned agricultural land in the West Bank to build industrial parks. Read more about Leaked documents show PA outsourced Palestinian land and rights to Turkish firm 

Despite an Israeli high court ruling to open a high school in a Bedouin village, students remained deprived of basic educational facilities. Read more about Interview: Israel depriving Bedouins of right to education, says attorney 

I wasn’t really surprised by the watchdog group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’s (PHR-I) latest intervention to Israel’s health ministry, in which they accused Israeli doctors of complicity in the torture of Palestinian detainees in Israeli interrogation centers. Indeed, it sounded all too familiar to what I experienced during 550 days of incarceration in a South African prison from 1990 through 1992. Naji Ali writes for EI. Read more about Do no harm: A torture victim remembers 

Frankly, I’ve always been a little uneasy about explicitly Jewish actions around Palestine. Isn’t this a human rights issue in which all voices are equally needed and valued? What difference does one’s background make when one is speaking up for justice? I worry that people will listen more to what a group of Jews has to say than to Palestinians and other activists. I don’t believe in a a special “Jewish position” on Palestine. Deborah Agre writes from San Francisco. Read more about No time to celebrate