Israel’s appointment of a settler leader to replace a well-liked career diplomat as the country’s top official representative in New York is unsettling groups on the left. “I think it offers a more honest look at who is running Israel,” said Matt Duss, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. “Like Danny Danon, Dayan is not somebody who favors equal rights for Palestinians… This is someone whose vision for Israel is deeply at odds with American values.”

“Trump is great at capitalizing on the neocons’ belligerent ultra-nationalism, but he has little use for their ideas,” write FMEP’s Matthew Duss

While expressing absolute condemnation of the growing international boycott movement against the Jewish state, the ambassadors of the United States and the European Union had similar words of advice Monday for Israeli government leaders: If you want BDS to go away, revive negotiations with the Palestinians.

“Slowly but surely, the process of shedding democratic characteristics in favor of ‘ethnocratic’ ones is becoming clearer and clearer for all to see,” writes Tomer Persico.

A UN official warned Monday that the village of Khirbet Tana in the Jordan Valley was at risk of “forcible transfer” after a wave of Israeli demolitions left more than a third of its residents homeless.

“Human rights organizations can stop Israelis from ignoring what they and their leaders are trying to repress or bury,” writes Shlomi Eldar.

The Knesset on Monday night passed on first reading the bill that would allow the Knesset to remove a sitting Knesset member until the end of that Knesset term, or to suspend him for a shorter period of time.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that justice must be served over the shooting by an IDF soldier of a disarmed and incapacitated Palestinian attacker.

Armed clashes broke out Tuesday between Palestinian youths and Palestinian Authority security forces who raided the Old City of Nablus, leaving 13 injured.Nablus governor Akram Rujoub told Ma’an that PA security forces were attempting to detain a suspect in a recent murder when clashes erupted with armed men in and around the Old City.