“The First Amendment protects Americans’ right to boycott, and the government cannot condition hurricane relief or any other public benefit on a commitment to refrain from protected political expression,” said ACLU of Texas Legal Director Andre Segura.

“No one should be denied rights for a political viewpoint, but the fact that supporting Palestinian rights disqualifies applicants from aid is not just Orwellian but suggests a deep animus toward the very humanity of Palestinians.” Yousef Munayyer comments on a decision in Dickinson, TX barring recipients of hurricane relief from boycotting Israel.

White, American evangelicals have long been some of the most visible leaders in the Christian Zionist movement, but that’s changing.

The Jerusalem Municipality will on Wednesday discuss and likely approve a plan to add 176 new housing units to Nof Zion, a Jewish neighborhood in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem.

The Charity Commission has warned that making grants to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) could potentially constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions Act of 1957, in a significant hardening of the Commission’s approach to the issue.

Since the beginning of the olive harvest two weeks ago, Israeli human rights organizations have documented 10 cases of settler violence and theft against Palestinians and their property. For now, it seems like the police are doing their job.

At least 51 Palestinians were arrested in an overnight raid in East Jerusalem, in what the Israeli police described on Monday as a large-scale operation. The raids took place in Isawiyah in East Jerusalem, where only last week parents called a strike and refused to send children to class due to Israeli police activity near the neighborhood’s school.

The High Court of Justice ruled on Sunday that all the homes in the West Bank outpost of Netiv Ha’avot in Gush Etzion that were built on private Palestinian land must be demolished.

“Reports of a secret visit to Israel by a Saudi official, which have appeared on some media, are unfounded,” a spokesman for the Saudi foreign ministry said.

Members of the right-wing majority coalition in Israel’s Knesset, particularly Knesset members from Likud and the Jewish Home Party, have been filling the legislature’s docket with populist, anti-democratic bills. Here’s a rundown of what’s

According to reports, Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin is currently working on a new bill that would outlaw Israeli anti-occupation NGO Breaking the Silence, along with any other organization that harms IDF soldiers or promotes boycotts of the Jewish state.

Two senior prosecutors have criticized Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s intervention in state responses to the High Court of Justice in cases involving illegal outposts and settlements, but their supervisors side with Shaked.

Hamas has denied reports hinting that the Palestinian group is dissatisfied with the role of Qatar in the effort to reach reconciliation with Fatah.

Abdullah II ‘affirms Jordan’s full support’ for an agreement to end the decade-old split between Fatah and Hamas.

Despite numerous failures in the past, many Palestinians and officials involved in the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation seem optimistic about this attempt. They now are evaluating the potential economic effects of the national consensus agreement signed Oct. 12 that reunites Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and Hamas, which administers the Gaza Strip.

“I visited Gaza as a new reconciliation deal raised hopes for Palestinians who live there. Here’s what I saw and heard,” writes Jennifer Bing.