“Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort,”writes Nathan Thrall.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday condemned the detention and questioning of prominent liberal US Jewish journalist Peter Beinart at Ben Gurion Airport, saying the step was an “administrative mistake.”

“The answer, obviously, is the growing, almost hysterical, fear of the boycott, divestment and sanction movement.”

In Israel, the discrimination against Arabs travelling through Ben-Gurion International Airport has been well known for decades.

On 11 July 2018, at around 8:30 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with a military and Border Police escort, and two trucks, at the Palestinian community of Khirbet Khilet a-Dabe in the South Hebron Hills.

Six human rights groups on Sunday petitioned Israel’s top court, demanding the removal of restrictions imposed by Israel on the transfer of goods into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

Doctor Dahoud al-Shobaki had spent his career saving lives, but nothing prepared him for the heartbreak of failing to save his own son.

Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that key elements of the arrangement, which called for restoring Palestinian Authority control over Gaza in place of the current Hamas regime, would be a threat to Israel’s security.

Israeli opposition head Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) has requested that a Knesset sub-comittee hold an emergency discussion over the many different cases in which left-wing activists have been detained and questioned at the country’s borders.

Diana Buttu, Osamah Khalil, and Mouin Rabbani examine how the closer relations among Israel, the US, and the Gulf states – with Iran as their common enemy – have informed US actions to the detriment of Palestinians.