Netanyahu’s government is building on a long-standing legal matrix to accelerate Israel’s de facto annexation in the West Bank 

Last week, Israel broadened a racist law that allows communities to exclude non-Jews based on “social and cultural cohesion.” Whereas judicial overhaul laws have caused an uproar, this passed with hardly any opposition.

Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to cancel plans to build a new US Embassy Compound on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem.

Despite criticism from human rights groups and Palestine advocates, the Sierra Club has scheduled educational trips to Jerusalem, Caesarea, and Jaffa for next spring.

Actions that could constitute breach of loyalty or trust include anything the state finds as “terrorism”, espionage, or treason. Rights groups expect the law to be used disproportionately against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the state’s population. 

New evidence reveals that US plans to build an embassy in Jerusalem would place the diplomatic compound on privately-owned Palestinian land that was confiscated from its owners by Israel, following the Nakba and the establishment of the state in 1948. 

The Israeli Supreme Court rules that the killing of four Palestinian boys playing soccer on the beach during the 2014 assault on Gaza cannot be prosecuted because military commanders were seeking to distinguish civilian from military targets as much as was practicable. The “ruling in the Bakr boys’ case is further evidence that Israel is unable and unwilling to investigate and prosecute soldiers and commanders for war crimes against Palestinian civilians,” say the human rights groups that sought an investigation of the killings.

Testimonies from Palestinians detained at the Nazareth police station during the May uprising reveal graphic reports of extreme psychological and physical abuse at the hands of Israeli special forces. “It was a madhouse, there is no other way to describe it,” detainee Carlo Roushroush tells Mondoweiss.

Wesam Sharaf, an advocate with the Civil and Political Rights Unit at Adalah talks with Yumna Patel about the impact of the “Unity Uprising” on Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is reportedly preparing to introduce a resolution on Thursday to the Senate “disapproving” the planned sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel. This comes as the Gaza death toll reaches 230, including 65 children. In addition, 1,760 have been injured and 50,000 families have been displaced due to ongoing Israeli airstrikes.