The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed controversial legislation on Thursday to target boycott efforts against Israel and Israeli businesses, advancing the measure to now be considered by the entire House chamber.

Irish Senator Frances Black announced on Wednesday that a bill she is promoting to boycott products manufactured in Israeli settlements will be discussed at the Irish parliament on July 11, 2018.

The Jerusalem District Court heard on Wednesday an intense legal battle pitting Human Rights Watch against the government and a group of anti-BDS NGOs over whether the state can be deport HRW’s representative for Israel and the Palestinian areas.

A group of five American Jews visiting Israel as part of the Birthright Israel program left the trip Thursday in protest of the program’s treatment of the occupation and joined a tour of Hebron led by anti-occupation army veterans’ group Breaking the Silence

In 2012, Israel approved ninety-two per cent of medical permits for Gazans. In 2014, a year of deadly conflict, eighty-two per cent of patients were allowed in. But, since the beginning of 2018, with no announcement of a change in policy, more than half of applications for medical permits from Gaza have been turned down or left unanswered, according to Physicians for Human Rights – Israel.

Slogans saying ‘Jews do not keep silent’ and ‘Here live enemies to expel or kill’ were spray-painted on the walls.

The land hosts a farm and a guesthouse whose profits go to a company established by the official, who has since left his government job.

“The state of Israel is facing a catastrophic situation, which could, alarmingly soon, lead to extensive bloodshed. It is time for the international community to act decisively. Substantive external pressure – political, economic and cultural – offers the only chance of emerging from this impossible situation before it is too late,” write Ilana Hammerman and David Harel.

According to Palestinian officials, Arab representatives warned Kushner and Greenblatt that disclosing a plan that doesn’t meet Palestinian expectations could disturb regional stability.

The Palestinian Authority’s attempts to destroy Gaza’s economy could end up dragging Israel into military conflict.

The American public and policymaking circles all too often reduce the “Palestinian perspective” to a single, monolithic viewpoint, both in terms of historical experience and yearning for the future.