“This tool can be used for moral and humanitarian issues to demonstrate our country’s complicity in the killing of unarmed civilians”: Connie Hammond, Jewish Voice for Peace.

The US State Department’s newly released human rights report, designed to be a “factual resource” on human rights abuses in nearly 200 countries and to inform US foreign policy, has numerous problems and omissions – including with the chapters covering Israel and Palestine.

United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has been seeking to adopt the Israeli name for the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, in his official remarks and statements, but has so far been prevented from doing so by the Trump administration, officials told the Associated Press.

“Hamas and other terrorist groups have spent their energy and resources encouraging Palestinians in Gaza to stage protests and throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the border fence,” Greenblatt said Tuesday here in a speech at the American Jewish Committee’s women’s leadership board spring luncheon. “In some cases Hamas use the protests as cover to attack Israeli troops and plant bombs along the border fence.”

Work has begun on a new neighborhood in East Jerusalem for former defense establishment employees, adjacent to the neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv. The land for the project, which is to include 180 residential units, was expropriated in the 1970s from residents of Sur Baher, an Arab neighborhood that is also adjacent to the site.

The incidents early on Wednesday are two of several so-called “price tag” attacks against Arabs citizens of Israel and Palestinians over the last month.

The boycott began on Feb. 13 when 500 administrative detainees announced an indefinite boycott of the Israeli justice system, including the courts of first instance, the court of appeals and the Supreme Court.

Gazan photojournalist Ahmed Abu Hassin, who was gravely injured last Friday while documenting the March of Return, succumbed to his wounds Wednesday afternoon, Gaza’s Health Ministry said. Abu Hassin was shot in the stomach by an Israeli sniper despite the fact that he was stationed at a permissible distance from the border fence.

Nadav Weiman, a former sniper and the head of the education department in Breaking the Silence, talks about IDF’s open-fire regulation in Gaza.

The student government at George Washington University passed a nonbinding resolution calling for the school to divest from nine companies that do business with Israel. The Student Association Senate approved the measure in an 18-6 vote on Monday night in a secret paper ballot. There were six abstentions.

Barnard President Sian “Beilock totally overrode the democratic process due to pressures or external things that we cannot and do not know about, and now we’re only left to guess, and it sucks,” said student Lili Brown, a senior affiliated with referendum sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace, to the Forward.