• Worth reading: US Should Recognize Israeli Control of the Golan
• Richard Cohen (Washington Post) and Dan Ephron (The Daily Beast) ruminate on “The Gatekeepers.”
• Essentially agreeing with Glenn Greenwald, an LA Times commentary says the fuss over Brooklyn College’s BDS event is a “red herring.”
Obviously no student should be subjected to ethnic or religious harassment. But it does no service to Jewish students — in Brooklyn or Berkeley — to try to insulate them from debate about Israeli polices, including the denunciations offered by the BDS movement.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Israel’s newest parliamentarians were sworn into the Knesset today. Gideon Allon — who has covered the Knesset for 20 years — offers advice to the record number of newbies.
• YNet: Israel is in talks to send up an astronaut to the International Space Station.
(Image of books via Flickr/opensourceway)
For more, see yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream.
