Today Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat promised to kick out the UN agency responsible for refugee services, saying the move will support Israeli “sovereignty and unity of Jerusalem,” and called to “increase the Israelization” of East Jerusalem.

Nathan Thrall’s long read in the Guardian on the origins of the BDS movement: “The nonviolent activism of the second intifada was a prelude to what would become a worldwide boycott campaign.”

Rashida Tlaib, 42, won yesterday’s Democratic primary in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, defeating five other candidates and poised to become the first Muslim woman and first Palestinian-American in Congress. She will run in November unopposed as there is no Republican or third party candidate vying in the race.

After the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman went to a settlement last week on an official diplomatic visit, settler leaders are questioning if the Trump administration has quietly overturned a ban on ambassadors making stops to Israeli controlled areas over the Green Line.

Sacha Baron Cohen duped leading Republicans into reciting absurd endorsements of a fake program to arm toddlers in his premier of Showtime’s “Who is America?” last night. One issue that seems to have baited Republicans into participating is no hold barred support for Israel.

Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said today “it is not surprising” that the U.S. withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday, because the directive came from an “administration who gives orders to snatch crying babies from their parents’ arms,” referencing the White House policy of separating detained immigrant children from their parents.

The United Nations highest human rights body voted Friday for an independent investigation into human rights violations in “the military assaults on the large-scale civilian protests that began on 30 March 2018,” carried out by Israeli in Gaza.

Nikki Haley says U.S. embassy in Jerusalem “promoted” peace, blames Iran with Hamas back-up for deaths of Palestinian protesters. Meanwhile officials in the United Nations call for an investigation into Israel’s actions.

While senior White House officials were in Jerusalem today to mark the opening of the U.S. embassy, and 55 Palestinian protesters in Gaza were killed by Israeli forces, young Jews with the group If Not Now blocked traffic in Washington DC outside the Trump International Hotel for two hours by erecting an “Embassy of Freedom” to protest the administration’s move. 

Hours after announcing a watershed deal with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to relocate African asylum seekers in Israel to Western Europe and Canada, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reneged, saying he is “suspending implementation of the agreement,” throwing the fate of tens of thousands into uncertainty. Some Israeli supporters of Netanyahu were angry the multi-lateral resettlement program would send asylum seekers to Western nations instead of deporting them to harsh conditions in third-party African nations.