Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: February 25, 2019

What We’re Reading

Israeli politics

Israel's fascist sideshow takes center stage,

For the first time in over 30 years, a proper Kahanist party could be entering the Knesset. But is the rise of a party that advocates for Jewish supremacy, theocracy, and ‘total war’ as unprecedented as the outcry has suggested?

US won’t criticize Netanyahu over Otzma Yehudit party’s inclusion, Pompeo says,

The United States is not going to get involved in Israel’s elections after the sitting prime minister brought an extremist right-wing party into an alliance with a more mainstream right-wing party, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

Netanyahu confirmed for AIPAC conference on heels of extremist rebuke,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the AIPAC policy conference in Washington next month, the organization announced Saturday night on the heels of a rare condemnation issued by the group.

Occupation/Human rights

WATCH: Israeli police snatch Palestinian flags from protesters in Jerusalem,

If the Palestinian flag is legal, why do Israeli police view it as such a threat?

Israel releases Muslim cleric arrested after Jerusalem holy site unrest,

Sheikh Abdel-Azeem Salhab, who sits on the religious council appointed by Jordan to oversee the Islamic sites at the compound, personally reopened the gate leading into the Bab al-Rahmeh mosque on Friday, and hundreds of Muslims went inside to pray for the first time in years.

Under Israeli Occupation, Water Is a Luxury ,

Of all the Israeli methods of removing Palestinians from their land in order to allocate it to Jews from Israel and the Diaspora, the policy of water deprivation is the cruelest.