Axios reports Israel has formed a special task force designed to “create long-term pressure on Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s by consumers, politicians, and in the press and social media.” The initial efforts of that campaign appear to have already started.

We cover attempts to censor pro-Palestine sentiment every week, but there’s something unprecedented about two recent cases.

A California judge recently threw out a lawsuit launched by a former Israeli solider which attempted to apply Israeli defamation law against Palestinian activist Suhair Nafal. Nafal’s attorney says the attempt to introduce Israeli law into a U.S. courtroom was truly unprecedented. “This was not a lawsuit against Suhair,” he told Mondoweiss. “This was a lawsuit from Israel against all activists.”

An Israeli ‘legal rights group’ said Wednesday it is suing two New Zealanders for “moral and emotional injury” after they allegedly convinced the pop singer Lorde to cancel her performance in Israel. The lawsuit appears to be the first filed under a contentious Israeli anti-boycott law.