“On July 1, despite having a student visa and registration for a course at Hebrew University, I was denied entry to the country. I was held for seven hours, asked which Palestinians I know, why I spend time in Israel with people who are not Jews and what protests I have attended in the West Bank. I was then refused entry.”

The Attorney General’s Office in Israel is investigating a spate of incidents in which prominent left-wing activists have been detained and questioned about their politics and ideologies when trying to enter the country.

“The detention and interrogation of high-profile figures such as Peter Beinart and Reza Aslan at Israeli entry points is forcing liberal American Jews to reckon with what Israel is becoming.”

The state filed its response on 7 August 2018, insisting on the community’s immediate expulsion to the site originally proposed near the Abu Dis landfill.

The crucial Karam Abu Salem border crossing reopens allowing the vital transfer of goods into besieged Gaza.

This most recent policy brief from 7amleh the Arab Center for Social Media is focused on the dramatic upsurge in the number of laws being put forth by Israeli legislators that violate the right to privacy, freedom of expression and often exhibit racist and discriminatory features.

A key coalition ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday harshly criticized any deal for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, adding that ministers in his party will oppose it.

A hostel in Jerusalem’s Old City has published a list of “haters of Israel” who have been banned “because of crimes committed against the Jewish people,” drawing derision and ridicule from those blacklisted.