Quarterly Updates

               A court in Canada ruled that wine made in Israeli settlements must be labeled as such rather than “Products of Israel,” calling the mislabeling “inaccurate and misleading.”

Palestinian and Syrian Refugees Protest in Lebanon

Security Council

               The European Union (EU) on several occasions this quarter criticized Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and settlement expansion.

               There were some big wins for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement this quarter, including the labeling of settlement products

               In a joint press conference on 19 August with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced tha

Overview of violence

Reconciliation

Elections

               In what appears to be a 1st, Israeli F-35 fighter jets attacked an Iraqi base said to be an Iranian-supported militia weapons warehouse 30 miles northeast of Bag

               Israeli attacks on Syria continued in the very beginning of this quarter.

United Kingdom-Iran Rift

Military Action

               The United Kingdom (UK), along with the European Union and United Nations denounced Israel’s decision to expand 4 Israeli settlement

               The German city Aachen withdrew the Aachen Art Prize of $10,900 given to artist Walid Raad.

               A scandal in the already financially hit United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) rocked the agency this quarter.

Peace Plan

               Jordanian prime minister Omar Razzaz criticized the unveiled 1st part of the U.S.

               Nicaragua announced on 7 August that the country would open an embassy in Palestine.

Overview of Violence

Palestinian Authority

New PA Prime Minister

Israeli Campaigns in Syria

                Tensions between Jordan and Israel continued from last quarter into this quarter as Israel continued its transgressions on the Haram al-Sharif compound (see Palestinian-Israeli Conflict). In the beginning of April, the U.S.

                Unidentified sources told al-Akhbar newspaper that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had been instructed to begin 15 new

                After announcing in November 2018 that Airbnb was removing its listings in the occupied West Bank, the company released a statement saying it had reversed its decision as part of a legal settlement with hosts

              South Africa’s foreign affairs minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on 5 April that the country was not planning on reinstating its ambassador

               Both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) continued to face financial trouble after the U.S. cut all funding to Palestinians in 2018.

                The World Bank released a report, Economic Monitoring Report to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, on the Palestinian economy ahead of an Ad Hoc

               Amid political turmoil in Moldova, Moldova’s acting president Pavel Filip said on 9 June that his administration had “adopted the decision to relocate t

                Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, passed a motion condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic on 17 May.

                France’s outgoing ambassador to the U.S.