Kansas officials are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow to defend a state law designed to suppress boycotts of Israel. There’s just one problem: The state quite literally has no defense for the law’s First Amendment violations.

“The majority of students who are being persuaded to join the BDS Movement are not actively hostile to Israel itself. Rather, they are susceptible to being drawn into the BDS movement out of concern for the occupation in the West Bank and Israeli government policies towards the Palestinians,” writes Ben Elkind.

US President Donald Trump is considering recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, officials said Thursday, adding weight to reports that have been circulating in Israeli media. The announcement would be a way to offset a likely decision delaying his campaign promise to move the US Embassy to the holy city from Tel Aviv, the US officials said.

The goal of Israel’s policies in East Jerusalem is to shrink the size of the city’s Palestinian population. Here’s how.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Friday said two Israeli settlers who opened fire at a group of Palestinians who were allegedly attacking the group of children they were leading on a hike near the village of Qusra in the northern West Bank were acting in “self-defense,” even as police questioned them on suspicions of manslaughter.

Saudi Arabia is so eager to establish diplomatic relations with Israel that it is prepared to sign off on almost any type of Israeli-Palestinian peace deal no matter how unfavourable to the Palestinians, according to Benjamin Netanyahu’s former security advisor.

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week.

FMEP hosted a panel featuring Sami Abdel Shafi, the Carter Center’s representative on the ground in Gaza since mid-2008, and Elizabeth Campbell, the new director of UNRWA’s Regional Office in Washington, DC.