“I will not be going to Israel at this time. I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone. I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another,” Nair said. Read more about Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair boycotts Israel film festival 

Their celebration and joking about Rachel Corrie’s death reflects the culture of dehumanization inculcated into Israeli soldiers. Read more about Israeli soldiers have depraved “fun” making “Rachel Corrie pancakes” 

“Biblical justifications to steal other people’s land and property” are a reminder that “white slave owners used the bible to justify owning other human beings.” Read more about Watch: Ali Abunimah, Guardian's Ian Black and Israeli settler debate EU settlement rule 

This is likely to set off further alarm bells among Israelis who fear the days of freely colonizing Palestinians while enjoying fully normal relations are coming to an end. Read more about Israeli banks may lose access to large loans under new EU rule on occupied lands 

Is the resort to timid and euphemistic language a form of reflexive self-censorship to avoid the wrath of the anti-Palestinian lobby? Read more about Why is New York Times reporting on Israeli settlements so timid? 

Israel is attempting to counter the Palestinian rights movement by targeting its messages at progressive communities, especially LGBTQ people. Read more about Pinkwash, Greenwash, Hogwash: Ali Abunimah on Israel’s use of sex and marketing to distract from apartheid 

Football player Oday Aboushi, recently drafted to the New York Jets NFL team, is the target of an escalating media smear campaign to associate him with terrorism and extremism, apparently for no other reason than his Palestinian ancestry. Read more about New York Jets’ Oday Aboushi faces anti-Palestinian smears 

As Palestine refugees face an increasingly dire situation in Syria, some have made their way to Gaza. But this route to safety is now closed off amid the turmoil in Egypt. Read more about “We have become refugees again,” say Palestinians from Syria now in Gaza 

Palestinians trying to return home to the Gaza Strip from overseas, via Cairo airport, are being deported by Egyptian authorities to the countries they flew in from, at their own expense. Read more about Egypt deporting Palestinians trying to return to Gaza 

While Arabs were turned away allegedly for not being local, a Jewish undercover reporter had no trouble getting in. Read more about Another Israeli swimming pool caught refusing entry to Arab citizens