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Judging from victories BDS appears to be racking up it seems that finally, this strategy based on sustained and escalating pressure on Israel in all fields – academic, cultural, economic and military – is starting to have a real effect.

Since October, 890 Gazans have been killed by Israeli fire despite the supposed 'cease-fire.' Forty-two of them were police officers whose job it is to maintain some semblance of order in a tormented and fractured society

Months into the ceasefire, Israeli officials barred thirty-seven international N.G.O.s. A Doctors Without Borders clinic is carrying on without antibiotics, or even chairs for patients.

Molly Crabapple's inspirational history of the Bund reminded me of the many ways in which the self-styled "Jewish State" is a monument to hatred (of Jews as well as of Palestinians).

Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate.

The joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony is now in its 21st year. One of its organizers says that people are now joining faster after the loss of their loved ones, understanding 'they can't remain indifferent'

Legal viability aside, the new law reveals a deeper question, reflecting a perverse dissonance in Israeli society: Why are Jewish terrorists spared the noose while Arab ones are hanged?