California passed a pair of laws that would prohibit immigration agents from wearing masks or hiding their identities while detaining people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants. It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to not only sue, but to refuse to comply.

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

<article data-history-node-id="425233" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unprecedented-israeli-directive-bans-dozens-americans-europeans-advocacy" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unprecedented-israeli-directive-bans-dozens-americans-europeans-advocacy" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">'Unprecedented': Israeli directive bans dozens of Americans, Europeans for advocacy</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A new&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/entry_ban_israel_initiators_promoters_international_lawsuits_against_israelis/he/Research_Reports_entry_ban_israel_initiators_promoters_international_lawsuits_against_israelis.pdf" target="_blank">directive</a>&nbsp;from the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has banned dozens of political and legal advocates from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">UK</a>, Canada, and Europe from entering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;due to their "intentional delegitimisation of the State of Israel and its defence forces", the document said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Entry visas will no longer be granted to those who "knowingly" and "publicly" called for a boycott of Israel; disseminated Holocaust denial content; denied the impact of the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023; or "supported or publicised" initiatives to hold Israeli citizens or soldiers accountable in a non-Israeli court of law, according to the text.&nbsp;</p> <p>Among the targeted organisations is the Hind Rajab Foundation, named after the five-year-old girl in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza</a>&nbsp;who was killed by a spray of Israeli gunfire as she waited for first responders. She had spent hours inside a besieged vehicle as the only survivor among the dead bodies of her relatives.&nbsp;</p> <p>The group has been instrumental in tracking down members of the Israeli military, using their social media accounts and alerting international governments as to their whereabouts so they may be apprehended.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unprecedented-israeli-directive-bans-dozens-american-european-advocacy">'Unprecedented': Israeli directive bans dozens of Americans, Europeans for advocacy</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Protesters in Tel Aviv demand an end to the war on Gaza and a return of the Israeli captives, on 2 July 2025 (Ammar Awad/Reuters)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="eb7fcdaf-cb57-46c7-bc10-fd107d298f63" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/2025-07-02T164155Z_676968524_RC2GEFAM0YWF_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-HOSTAGES.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Protesters in Tel Aviv demand an end to the war on Gaza and a return of the Israeli captives, on 2 July 2025 (Ammar Awad/Reuters)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Protesters in Tel Aviv demand an end to the war on Gaza and a return of the Israeli captives, on 2 July 2025 (Ammar Awad/Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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