Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: June 25, 2018

What We’re Reading

US-Israeli/Palestinian relations

Transcript: Jared Kushner’s Interview With a Palestinian Newspaper,

Jared Kushner teases some details on the Trump peace plan.

US freezes Palestinian aid budget,

The move comes two months after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act.

What's the real motivation behind Trump's Mideast peace plan?,

UN sources are skeptical on the feasibility of the US Mideast peace plan, which is clearly in favor of Israel’s positions.

Trump on Israel embassy move: ‘Evangelicals appreciate it more than the Jews’,

“I tell you what, I get more calls of thank you from evangelicals, and I see it in the audiences and everything else, than I do from Jewish people,” Trump said.

The FBI Is Using Unvetted, Right-Wing Blacklists to Question Activists About Their Support for Palestine,

Civil liberties advocates are alarmed by the interviews, which they say intimidate political organizers, chill constitutionally protected speech, and are just the latest manifestation of a 50-year history of U.S. government scrutiny of pro-Palestine activists.

Trump's 'Deal of the Century"' for the Middle East Might Live or Die in Cairo ,

Egypt insists that East Jerusalem be the Palestinian capital.

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Occupation/Human rights

As Israel Pushes to Build, Bedouin Homes and School Face Demolition,

Any day now, the Israeli Army says, bulldozers will arrive to wipe the West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar off the map.

'The law is what keeps the edifice of occupation from crashing down',

Michael Sfard has spent the past two decades fighting the occupation in Israeli courts. His new book dissects the moral dilemmas of engaging with the occupation’s legal system, its role in making the status quo sustainable, and why, despite it all, he remains optimistic that Israel’s military rule over the Palestinians will end.

Israeli settlers burn 300 Palestinian olive trees in Nablus district,

Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned agricultural lands in the village of Tell on Sunday evening, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus.

BDS and Settlement boycotts

Presbyterian Church USA passes resolution calling Israel an apartheid state,

The Presbyterian Church USA passed several resolutions critical of Israel at its biennal General Assembly, including one that referred to Israel as an apartheid state.