Some notable quotes:

Josh Paul, who resigned from the State Department last fall in protest of US policy toward Israel’s war on Gaza, told me that such silence from the US would be “highly abnormal” if it was in response to a shooting of an American from any other country’s security forces.

“In the case of Israel, we are of course still waiting for a condemnation 2 years after the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, but all we get from the podium is a referral to, and a faith in, Israel’s ‘ongoing investigation,’” said Paul, who is now a senior advisor for Democracy for the Arab World Now. “I don’t think there’s a great mystery here. Just as it is harder in this country to criticize Israel than to criticize America, it is harder for this government to criticize Israel than to stand up for the life of an American.”

Sison was shot near the northern West Bank village of Beita, where Israeli settlers have attempted, for more than 10 years, to seize Palestinian land. He was there as part of the activist group Faz3a’s international campaign to provide a protective presence for Palestinians.