“The core reason I am participating is that years from now, I want to be able to look [my children] in the eye and tell them, ‘Your father was part of this historic, nonviolent struggle for our homeland.'”

“Our community’s complicity in the human nightmare in Gaza should fill every American Jew with shame,” writes Peter Beinart.

On episode 6 of Deconstructed, B’Tselem’s executive director, Hagai El Ad, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the border violence and the broader situation in Palestine. And Avner Gvaryahu, former Israeli paratrooper and executive director of Breaking the Silence, a group which documents the stories of IDF soldiers about their activities in the occupied territories, talks about his own time as a soldier in the West Bank.

Organisers dedicate Friday demonstration to ‘revolutionary youth’ as Israeli forces wound at least seven journalists covering the protests.

In his briefing to the Security Council, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov urged all parties to step back from the brink.

What is at play in the scandal over Portman’s refusal is a kind of double standard of the Israeli right—of which Portman is not the only victim. Last year’s NGO Law, which requires organizations receiving the bulk of their funding from outside of the country to reveal that fact, makes this same argument: critique of Israel from outside the country is unfounded and will be hounded out.

The Anti-Defamation League said it regretted using “overly broad language” to describe the Canary Mission, a group that posts blacklists of what it says are anti-Israel students on campuses.

Hamas must stop its “outrageous practice” of using Palestinians in Gaza, particularly children, as human shields when it attacks Israel, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told the Security Council on Thursday, at its monthly meeting on the Middle East.

Newly confirmed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will stop in Israel during a trip that began Friday, one day after the Senate approved his nomination by a vote of 57 to 42.

An Israeli military judge ordered Abdullah Abu Rahme released, saying there was no reason to keep him behind bars. And yet for the next month, the military justice system conspired to keep him in prison.

The criminal case against the three Jewish extremists, including two minors, ended earlier this year after all of their appeals were exhausted, clearing the way for the civil lawsuit.

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis demanded Prime Minister Viorica Dancila resign, over a reported dispute on the plan to move the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.