As I will be traveling, this Update will most likely be on hiatus through mid June. Stay safe!

Militants kill 11 Egyptian troops in Sinai (AP, NYT, etc) Why "militants"? Egypt is battling an ISIS-led insurgency in Sinai 

EU Parliament condemns PA textbooks over incitement (JNS)

Iranian Assistance Boosts Venezuela's Oil Industry, Posing a Threat to the United States (IPT)

Zionism Remains a Freedom Struggle (Sapir)

Jordan and the Temple Mount: Have the Jordanians Forgotten Their Peace Treaty Obligations? - Amb. Alan Baker (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Words That Kill: Hamas and the Elad Terror Attack (Honest Reporting VIDEO)

Fatah spokesman: Last week’s murder of three civilians is “heroic action” (PMW)

Qatar to help Iran free moneys frozen by sanctions (Debka)

Turkey Has Not Expelled Any Hamas or Muslim Brotherhood Members - Ragip Soylu (Middle East Eye-UK)

Velshi's Rabid Reckless Rant (CAMERA)

Gigi and Bella Hadid’s Dad Tells 1.3 Million Instagram Followers Late Israeli PM Golda Meir Was ‘Proud Palestinian’  (Honest Reporting) In the full interview, which Hadid did not include, Meir suggests the notion of a Palestinian identity is a modern development, pointing out that prior to Israel’s birth there were just “Jews and Arabs” and rhetorically asking, “When were the Palestinians born?” Meir also noted that there is no difference between Arabs living on the east or west side of the Jordan River, and highlighted how Jordan had failed to establish a Palestinian state when it ruled the West Bank between 1948 and 1967.

‘Disrespectful of Jews’: 70 Harvard faculty reject student paper’s BDS endorsement (Times of Israel)

‘Free Palestine’: Yeshiva Student Assaulted in Third Antisemitic Attack in Brooklyn In Five Days (Algemeiner)

Meanwhile at the UN...

While Russia ousted from UN Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia is now on the Women's Rights Commission. 

AP Coverage of death of Shireen Abu Akleh

Whether she was killed by an Israeli or a Palestinian bullet is unknown because the Palestinian Authority has refused to allow Israeli scientists to examine the bullet, and has furthermore refused to participate in a joint and impartial Israeli-Palestinian-US investigation. None of these inconvenient facts were in the AP article.

            What else was not in this article?

• Israeli police entered Jenin to arrest Jihadi murderers of 9 Israelis, among the victims Vyacheslav Golev who died defending his fiancée, Victoria from the Palestinian killers.

• Decorated Israeli paratrooper Noam Raz was killed in the fighting. Where is the AP article glorifying him?

• One of the Al Jazeera journalists confronting Israeli police was shot in the back, this means, by the Palestinian rioters with whom he stood shoulder-to-shoulder.

• During the IDF operation in Jenin, hundreds of bullets were shot at Israeli troops, who responded by firing dozens of bullets at specific targets. Most of the Israeli fire was directed southwards, while Abu Akleh was positioned to the north of the Israeli forces

• Five Jihadi murderers were arrested.  

• Palestinians at Akleh’s funeral rioted attacking Israeli police with rocks and bricks. Rioters took Shireen Abu Akleh's casket at the hospital against her family’s wishes.