It’s Friday, the weekly day for the “nonviolent” protest that the ISM pretends is its motif.

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.

So these “non-violent” methods, what do they entail?

On Friday, dozens of demonstrators tried to cross the barbed wire section of the barrier that is built through a Palestinian-owned olive orchard.

So these “non-violent” methods, does anyone get hurt?

A soldier was lightly injured in the demonstration, the army said.

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America pays belated tribute to an unsung hero of WWII:

Sixty-six years ago, Hiram Bingham IV, a blue-blood American diplomat in France, defied U.S. policy by helping Jews escape the Nazis in the early years of World War II.

Bingham’s actions cost him his Foreign Service career but won him the undying gratitude of the more than 2,000 refugees he helped save by issuing them travel visas and false passports, and even at times sheltering them in his home. Only in recent years has his heroism been officially recognized by his own country.

[...] But Bingham, in defiance of U.S. policy, went much further, helping thousands of Jews escape. He provided Fry with visa and other travel documents, some fraudulent, let rescue activists use his home for planning meetings and hid refugees there from the local authorities. At one point he helped novelist Lion Feuchtwanger elude the Nazis by dressing him in women’s clothing and spiriting him through German checkpoints by telling authorities the person was his mother-in-law. Among the people Bingham helped save were artist Marc Chagall and philosopher Hannah Arendt.

In a 1980 audiotape made by his granddaughter Tiffany, who was working on a school project, Bingham made clear that his superiors would have disapproved had they known what he was doing.

“My boss, who was the consul general at the time, said, ‘The Germans are going to win the war. Why should we do anything to offend them?’ ” Bingham said on the tape, which was found in the 1990s and played at yesterday’s event. “I had to do as much as I could.”

His name will be honored for a long, long time. Scroll down the page to read the USPS profile on Bingham.

A car bomb killed a leader of Islamic Jihad in Lebanon.

Mahmoud Majzoub, a member of the group’s policy-making Shura Council body and its leader in Sidon, 24 miles south of Beirut, was walking with his brother, Nidal, near the central square of this coastal city when a parked car was detonated by remote control, security officials said.

Mahmoud Majzoub survived the blast but died during surgery, while Nidal Majzoub was killed instantly, said the security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Islamic Jihad’s representative in Lebanon said Nidal Majzoub also was a member of the group.

If it had been a simple car bomb, I wouldn’t have been sure who got them. But that’s a Mossad technique for assassinating terrorists who hide in other countries. Perfectly carried out, too — nobody else was hurt.

Expect the terror alert in Israel to rise over this one.

If only they’d target Nasrallah. Now that would send a message to the terrorists, and to Iran.