Right-wing fanatics, supporters of parties in Israel's government, held a rally in Jerusalem and launched mob attacks on a TV journalist, and on a Palestinian taxi driver.

They beat up the journalist, who was hospitalized. The taxi driver was rescued by Israeli cops, who often don't try to protect a Palestinian, but the fanatics destroyed his car.

A US court ruled that Texas school censorship is unconstitutional. The books removed from school libraries must be brought back to them.

A few years ago I would have taken this result for granted, and so would the advocates of censorship — they would not have tried it. Now they hope that the right-wing extremists on the court will make up an excuse to permit this — and they may be right.

It is foolish and stingy for societies to refuse to spend money to help each child grow up well.

Israeli annexationists have been finding excuses for years to expel Palestinians from old Jerusalem, neighborhood by neighborhood. The next target is the Mount of Olives.

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