Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To subscribe to this report, please click here.…

FMEP Non-Resident Fellow Peter Beinart talks with Salem Barahmeh – one of the creators behind a new virtual reality app taking people inside key places…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced today that the US government will no longer hold the position that settlements built in the West Bank are necessarily illegal, saying the decision recognizes reality on the ground…“I don’t think it is a coincidence that this is happening days after the European Court of Justice ruling on labeling,” Lara Friedman, executive director of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, told Al-Monitor from Tel Aviv today. “That is clear. The substantive impact will depend on what flesh we put on the bones” of the decision, Friedman continued. “The President, the State Department can tell Customs and Border to change our policy on labeling [of goods produced from the settlements].”

On this episode of “Occupied Thoughts”  Peter Beinart is joined by Lior Amihai, Executive Director of Yesh Din, to discuss Israel’s ongoing de facto annexation…