One of the main principles of the plan, according to Kushner, is freedom, including freedom of opportunity and religion. He said the aim is to eliminate the borders as they are today, “in order to guarantee freedom of movement for people and goods.”

Sanders’s entire profile in politics over the past five years has been defined at least as much by efforts to reshape the boundaries of political debate as it has by a concrete political program. And there’s probably no area of public policy where the official debate in Washington has been more constrained than Israel.

Members of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, which is poised to enter the next Knesset, have allegedly received funding through a shadowy network of American organizations, including a Jewish body that the United States has blacklisted as a terror group, a report said Monday.

“The next Israeli government may include terrorists that are barred from entering the United States. Otzma’s leader, Michael Ben Ari, has been banned from entering the United States for nearly a decade because of his links to terrorism,” writes Noah Siegel. “I know this because I made the case for his ban.”

“Much like Donald Trump’s election, the merger between the right-wing settler Jewish Home party and the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit — encouraged and facilitated by Prime Minister Netanyahu — marks less a break with the status quo than its unmasking,” writes Joshua Leifer.

The Dutch Green Left Party became the Netherlands’ first mainstream political movement to endorse a boycott of Israel.

“In democratic countries, elections are conventionally described as ‘a celebration.’ But in an undemocratic reality of endless military occupation, they become an overt celebration of the violence of the powerful,” writes Hagai El-Ad.

Israel’s far-right Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel and a number of Jewish settlers forced their way into occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, according to a Palestinian official.

On the 25th anniversary of the Hebron massacre, FMEP’s Lara Friedman shares FOIA’d cables that she wrote in the aftermath of the atrocity for Washington, in her capacity as a political officer at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem.