Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: August 17, 2018

What We’re Reading

In Their Rush to Appear Pro-Israel, Texas Lawmakers May Have Stepped on Free Speech,

A growing number of people have reported that a state law is forcing them to choose between their political beliefs and payment for their labor.

A new policy in Israel is making it impossible for foreign nationals to live in the West Bank,

The policy has devastating consequences, not only on family life in the occupied territories, but also for the Palestinian economy.

How Israeli Right-wing Thinkers Envision the Annexation of the West Bank,

From granting the Palestinians the right to vote in Jordan to expelling them creatively – how rightists propose to apply Israeli sovereignty in the Palestinian territories.

PLO factions boycott Central Committee meeting,

Palestinian Liberation Organisation members the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are boycotting the body’s Central Committee meeting which is to be held today.

Their parents settled the West Bank for ideology. They’re staying for the vibes,

“While a group of Israeli teens offer varying views on Palestinians and peace, they agree that life over the Green Line is more defined by hitchhiking than terror attacks.”