ANOTHER BDS VICTORY, THAT NEVER WAS

Mondoweiss reports on leading BDS spokesperson Omar Barghouti's recent visit to Italy: Barghouti also met with leaders of the metalworkers unions of Italy’s three national confederations, FIOM-Cgil, which has endorsed BDS, FIM-Cisl and UIM-Uil, representing altogether over 500 hundred thousand workers. In a joint statement, the unions recognised that the BDS campaign 'has proven itself to…

NO MATTER WHO WINS ISRAEL’S ELECTION, THE PALESTINIANS LOSE

First published by Mondoweiss. If Benjamin Netanyahu hadn’t gone into politics he’d be on Broadway, hamming it up as a pantomime villain. Israel’s hawkish prime minister is theatrically obnoxious to the point where even Israel’s staunchest allies in the American Jewish community are urging him to tone it down. He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t…