The United States on Thursday downgraded the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by placing it under the authority of the U.S. Embassy to Israel.

David Friedman participated at an event in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, in his position as United States ambassador to Israel.

A bipartisan slate of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would invest in businesses in the Palestinian areas — a bid to replace some of the massive cuts in assistance imposed recently by the Trump administration.

Sen. Ted Cruz called J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, “rabidly anti-Israel” in the Texas Republican’s debate with his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

It has become routine for Israel’s extreme right to malign civil society organizations. A small, relatively new group — the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research — recently joined the ranks of the persecuted.

A new report from IfNotNow examines five concrete ways the American Jewish establishment actively supports the Occupation.

Israeli authorities are set to demolish and forcibly displace the entire Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar any day now. Here is what you need to know about the village, and why rights groups and world leaders are describing Israel’s plans as a war crime.

Full text of B’Tselem Director Hagai El-Ad’s address to the UNSC.

“We haven’t shown enough of a steel fist there,” Bennett, a longtime political rival within Netanyahu’s governing coalition, said Tuesday at his Tel Aviv office. “We’ve been mighty soft on the fence, and that softness invites an increase in attacks.”

Andrew Little, the justice minister of New Zealand, said Tuesday that an Israeli court ruling against two New Zealand BDS activists was a “political stunt.”