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High tensions in Jerusalem‘s Old City boiled over into skirmishes on Friday after security restrictions were introduced by Israeli authorities. CNN‘s Ian Lee reports.

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A Palestinian youth was shot dead in east Jerusalem in unclear circumstance on Friday as clashes continued for a sixth day in and around the Old City.

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Israeli police appeared to punch a Palestinian man in the face which was followed by clashes between security forces and Muslim worshippers outside a gate to the Old City in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

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Wie ein israelischer Polizeisprecher mitteilte, dürfen muslimische Männer, die jünger als 50 Jahre sind, den Tempelberg nicht mehr betreten. In der Altstadt und im Umkreis seien Polizeikräfte in erhöhte Bereitschaft versetzt worden. Man wolle Freitagsgebete ermöglichen, gleichzeitig aber die Sicherheit gewährleisten, sagte der Polizeisprecher.

Footage from the site shows scores of Palestinians conducting a noon prayer outside the walls of the Old City, followed by police launching tear gas into the crowd.

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(20.7.2017) “Continued drivers of violence included a lack of hope in achieving Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, the perception that the Israeli government was changing the status quo on the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount, and IDF tactics that the Palestinians considered overly aggressive.”

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(14.6.2017) If you’re a supporter of Israel and of the Jewish community, you should be very worried about a new executive order issued by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 5.

While billed as an initiative to prevent New York state from supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, the law actually constitutes a frightening attack on free speech while likely creating a backlash that will do harm both to Israel and the Jewish community.

Returning to Ramallah in the middle of trips abroad to deal with looming violence on Temple Mount, PA president reaches out to President Trump‘s top Mid. East advisor, asking administration to order Israel to remove metal detectors.

The ACLU wrote to members of the Senate to urge them to oppose and refrain from co-sponsoring the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (H.R. 1697/S. 720). The impacts of the legislation would be antithetical to free speech protections enshrined in the First Amendment and we urged members to oppose the legislation in the absence of significant revisions.

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Adam Schiff, one of the supporters of bill making it a crime to support BDS

There is only one story in the news, for followers of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and that is Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Grim’s report at the Intercept yesterday on new legislation in the Congress that would criminalize support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Yes, criminalize.

The bill is such a crude example of overreach by the Israel lobby that it is sure to backfire on its supporters as Greenwald and Grim’s report ricochets around the Democratic Party:

On his Europe trip, the prime minister criticized the Trump administration amid its weakness in Congress. Now he hopes Israel‘s corruption investigators will be deterred by his tough talk

(16:52 Uhr) Seit Tagen protestieren Palästinenser in und rund um die Altstadt von Jerusalem gegen Israel. Bei den neuerlichen gewaltsamen Demonstrationen sind am Freitag drei Palästinenser getötet und rund 400 verletzt worden.

Die Armee hatte zunächst von zwei Toten und zwei Verletzten gesprochen. Wenig später erklärte sie, eines der Opfer sei seinen Verletzungen erlegen. Der Täter sei erschossen worden. Angaben zu dessen Identität machte die Armee nicht

Wegen der verschärften Kontrollen am Jerusalemer Tempelberg beschloss Palästinenserpräsident Mahmud Abbas den momentanen Abbruch der Beziehungen „auf allen Ebenen“. Abbas sagte, der Abbruch der Kontakte gelte solange, bis die „Besatzungsmacht“ Israel die Maßnahmen aufhebe. Zunächst war nicht klar, ob die Palästinenser ihre seit Langem bestehende Sicherheitszusammenarbeit mit Israel stoppen.

Omid Nouripour, außenpolitischer Sprecher der Grünen, fordert, den Flüchtlingspakt mit der Türkei aufzukündigen. Nouripour sagte der „Heilbronner Stimme“ (Donnerstagausgabe): „Erdogan meint, er könne uns nach Lust und Laune erpressen. Wenn wir aus seinen Fängen entkommen wollen, müssen wir den Flüchtlingspakt aufkündigen. Gleichzeitig müssen wir aber den Griechen beim Grenzschutz helfen.“

Die Wiedereröffnung und Verstärkung von Kommunikationskanälen, insbesondere solchen zwischen Militärs, sei für die Senkung des Risikos von Fehleinschätzungen und Missverständnissen zwischen beiden Koreas und für die Entspannung in der Region notwendig, hieß es weiter.

Südkorea hatte Nordkorea am Montag vorgeschlagen, militärische und Rot-Kreuz-Gespräche zu führen.

While Washington continues to seek a political resolution to the various wars tearing through Syria, it won’t insist on Syrian President Bashar al- Assad’s ouster, Trump’s homeland and counterterrorism adviser Tom Bossert said Thursday. “I don’t think it’s important for us to say Assad must go first,” Bossert said at a security conference. “The U.S. would still like to see Assad go at some point. That would be our desired outcome.”

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Last month we wrote about the tragic and hugely problematic ruling in Canada that said a Canadian court could order global censorship of content it deems to be illegal. As lots of people pointed out, that is going to have dangerous consequences for speech around the world. If you accept that Canada can censor the global internet, what‘s to stop China, Iran or Russia from claiming the same rights?

And now we‘ll get to find out if the EU similarly believes in the ability of one country to demand global censorship online.