Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, visited an Israeli military court in the West Bank and was deeply shocked by how young and defenceless these Palestinian boys on trial were.

Once a year, on March 8th, Palestinian women are ritually praised as steadfast. Statistics show that more girls than boys stay in secondary education but have far lower rates of employment. The PA is lacklustre in passing women-friendly laws.

How will the amended law, Entry Into Israel 1952, affect critical Jews who have friends or relatives in Israel? Does it mean that, is Israeli eyes, their country is no longer the homeland of all Jews but only for those who can prove their loyalty to this discriminatory state? Haaretz provides a practical guide.

Israel’s Knesset has passed a law banning the entry of any supporter of boycotts against Israel ‘or any area under its control’. According to its sponsor, it’s a matter of ‘honour’ or pride. Jewish Chronicle joins the critics!

Not strictly true – Israelis pay high costs morally, politically and in terms of reputation for the occupation. But, as B’Tselem reveals, legal and bureaucratic changes have led to the amount of compensation paid to Palestinians wounded by security forces dropping to less than a fifth from 2012 to 2016.

Two writers, 2015 and 2017, depict Labour’s decline as predetermined – by politics or demography. This is retrospective wisdom. Labour, in alliance with Hatnua, was predicted to win the 2015 election until the last minute. However the reasons given for ‘once-mighty’ Labour’s decline are still apt.

Bernie Sanders, Democrat, Jewish, socialist has done something rare in the US – said unconditionally that the Israeli Occupation must end; and rarer still, met with the Arab leader, Ayman Odeh, of the Joint List. He was speaking at the J Street national conference.

The onslaughts on Gaza have introduced three terms that have no right to exist: proportionate killing, collateral damage and target bank writes Amira Hass. Such is the support for the military solution that these euphemisms have become common currency.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has won respect for his analyses of religion and violence. But he has descended into ‘vulgar Israeli propaganda’ with scant respect for facts in his video attacking BDS.

For those who hold a torch for Israel as a matter of redemption or destiny this report of violent online abuse from Israeli Jews will be distressing. Yes, online anonymity has revealed an immense reservoir of aggressive hatred about everything. This is a frightening insight into Jewish Israeli hatred of Palestinians – and they are not reprimanded for ‘incitement’. Jonathan Cook reports.

Robert Fisk describes the process by which Britain tried to pacify conflicting claims to Palestine as a homeland – viz lying while making promises on which it was unable to deliver and concealing an instrumental favouring of Jews over Arabs. And the centrality of arms dealing to the whole continuing process.

This is another disturbing report, Manchester Uni this time, on the bureaucratic measures being taken to prevent students saying a critical word about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. None of the measures (Prevent and IHRA) has been subject to any parliamentary debate.

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At the end of January a young Canadian who had been nurtured on right-wing anti-Muslim propaganda killed six Muslims in Quebec. European Jews for a Just Peace issues a statement deploring the lack of media attention for this hate crime and calls for solidarity in opposing the culture that produced them. Plus Canada’s threatened heritage of multi-culturalism.

Josh Ruebner reveals to some and reminds others that US policy in 1947 was “there should not be set up one system of law for the adherents of one religion and a different system for the adherents of another religion”. No ‘the Jewish state’ then.

To some the hotel funded and opened in Bethlehem by Banksy is off the wall – too dystopian or surreal to be comfortable. To others it is imaginative and practical – a base for visitors and an income for Palestinians. We repost Haggai Matar’s review.

You can’t be Jewish and not have a view on Israel as all research has found. What that view is depends on what facts you take seriously and what you dismiss. The advert in the Jewish Chronicle, in support of the UNSC resolution 2334, by three Jewish groups has caused a small squall amongst Israel’s loyalists and its critics. Here are their letters.

This is an excellent briefing from from Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights about the ‘Expropriation Act’ which has been made Israeli law by right-wing ‘force majeure’ in the Knesset.

From the beginning, writes Jonathan Cook, Israel had a Wild West notion of law and order – they could take the land they wanted and shoot anyone who got in the way. Their legacy was massive corruption. Now just 20 families control most of the wealth in Israel. Plus the PM wants to make a deal to ensure favourable media coverage for himself.

It is Gaza’s young men who take the risk of escaping from the Strip. Lack of water, lack of fuel, lack of jobs, lack of arable land have rendered besieged Gaza as a place with no future except for Hamas military men.