Activists say the bill would censor the exchange of ideas and censor Israel’s critics.

Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday signed an Executive Order that prohibits the state of Louisiana from contracting with any company that participates in a boycott of Israel. The order specifically names the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

The Democratic nominee for Georgia governor, Stacey Abrams, said she could not vote for the BDS bill for the same reason that other progressives who oppose BDS oppose such bills: It brings government in as a referee on boycotts and free speech, which, she said, should trouble those steeped in the history of civil rights.

Israel is pressing the Trump administration to recognize its sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday, predicting U.S. assent could come within months.

Orchestrated by representatives Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and John Yarmuth of Kentucky, the letter calls on the premier to nix an order to demolish the West Bank Palestinian villages of Sussiya and Khan al-Ahmar.

A group that got money from a charity led at the time by David Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel, is not the same as a group of the same name that appears on the State Department terrorist list, a US official said.

Should Palestine take further steps to join entities that are definitively part of the UN, like the World Health Organization, those entities could expect their most important funder and member state [the US] to withdraw from the organization.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced Thursday that the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee, which falls under his office’s jurisdiction, will grant final construction approval for 2,500 homes while an additional 1,400 in 30 settlements will be advanced through various other planning stages.

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s Buyer’s Price program offers for sale some 300 new apartments in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, the biggest marketing move in the settlements since the program started; Kahlon’s decision coincides with stalemate in talks with the Palestinian Authority.

A new video shows Israeli Border Police preventing children from passing through a gate in order to reach their homes. This is what collective punishment looks like.

Israeli Jews back Netanyahu’s snubbing of Jewish-American views on the conflict with Palestinians and religious pluralism. But support from U.S. Jews is still seen as essential.

“Israel has a right to defend its borders, but shooting unarmed protesters who haven’t breached its frontier is disproportionate and illegal,” writes Sari Bashi.

“The message of the Gaza protests is that Palestinians are human beings,” writes Gaza resident Jehad Abusalim.

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 10 broadcast Wednesday, there are currently two proposals on the table – from Egypt and Qatar.