Military cooperation between the two sides is flourishing. Read more about Why Israel has no "better friend" than Italy 

An employee describes the claims on a promotional video by the fizzy drink firm as “lies.” Read more about SodaStream "treats us like slaves," says Palestinian factory worker 

Business owners omit salient facts when claiming that a boycott of Israeli goods will harm Palestinians. Read more about Israeli firms shed crocodile tears for Palestinian workers 

Popular Sodastream products directly benefit the largest Israeli settlement colony in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile the company exploits Palestinian factory workers and attempts to “greenwash” its profit from Israel’s occupation. Read more about Swedish chain kicks out drink machines made in Israeli settlements 

Palestine solidarity activists in Milan held vibrant protests against an Israeli propaganda festival in the city center last month, highlighting Italian complicity with the Israeli occupation. Read more about Israeli propaganda festival finds few fans in Milan 

Outside the Washington Convention Center, together with activists from CodePink, Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Avaaz, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, we tried to bring a little reality to the AIPAC policy conference bubble. We carried signs and banners calling for respect for international law and human rights, an end to the siege of Gaza, Israeli apartheid and US taxpayer funding of war crimes. Read more about Activists burst AIPAC conference's bubble 

Gaza’s landscape is dotted with piles of rubble of bombed out buildings, the twisted iron and aluminum of destroyed factories, once green fields reduced to sand and dirt by Israeli tanks, apartments with two-meter holes in the walls and toppled minarets of mosques turned to ruins. “But as devastating as bearing witness to the destruction was, it was the absurdities of the total blockade of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt that really affected me,” writes Stephanie Westbrook upon returning from Gaza. Read more about Gaza frozen in time