"I will not allow our fellow Americans to be intimidated or attacked because of who they are," US president says Friday after major Jewish groups ask him to speak out against worrying rise in hatred.
"After the US withdrawal from the JCPOA, [it] became a tug of war game without respect to institutional obligations and legal restrictions," former official laments.
Organization of Islamic Cooperation asks UN Human Rights Council to set up a permanent commission to report on alleged human rights violations in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
"A US consulate in Jerusalem to a foreign body clearly runs afoul of American law," says former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Requiring people who want to do business with the state to pledge that they are not engaged in a boycott of Israel is "unconstitutional compelled speech," US District Court Judge Mark H. Cohen rules.
"We know that to prevent a return to violence, we have to use the space created to address a larger set of underlying issues and challenges," secretary of state says.
Khaled Salem, who is running for the US Senate against Chuck Schumer in 2022, says "Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, Iran, various Arab nations and Turkey are behind the scenes and intent on Israel's demise."
Palestinians, Organization of Islamic Cooperation coordinator Pakistan ask UN Human Rights Council to investigate "systematic discrimination and repression," collect and analyze evidence of crimes "to maximize the possibility of its admissibility in legal proceedings."
Belarusian Transportation Minister Artem Sikorski reads Russian translation of message reportedly received from Hamas, which said that if Hamas' demands that Israel stop firing on Gaza were not met, a bomb would detonate on flight FR4978.
Saad-Eddine El Othmani, whose country normalized ties with Israel, reportedly sends a personal note to Ismail Haniyeh.
