See the budding protest movement at Stop the Consulate and its petition.

Alyza Lewin, president of the Brandeis Center, and Nathan Lewin, prominent civil rights jurist, present cogent arguments against a Jerusalem consulate for Palestinians and provide background to US policy toward Jerusalem and Israel.

Alan Baker, former Israeli Ambassador to Canada and director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center, sets forth in detail the many issues with the US plan.

As of October 20, 2021 Israel–US negotiations toward a solution were reportedly ongoing, per Axios.

Sen Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and 33 co-sponsors introduced a bill on 26 October to prevent the consulate reopening. More from the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Insider. See Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian McKeon’s response to a question from Sen Hagerty (via AIPAC).

Analysis, context, and opinion from Times of Israel, Israel Hayom, JNS, and the WSJ plus a leading opinion by Alex Traiman at JNS

EMET is hosting a similar petition.

Article 4 of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations begins “A consular post may be established in the territory of the receiving State only with that State’s consent.” (p. 4) This means that Israel must give consent to such a consulate, as it had to when the Embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

On 1 Nov, 200 Republican members of the US House of Representatives signed onto a letter to President Biden opposing the move to reopen the consulate, citing the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act.

On 6 Nov, PM Bennett and FM Lapid declared united opposition to a Jerusalem consulate and suggested Ramallah as an appropriate location. The PA objected to this alternative.

Israel has designated 6 NGOs linked to the PFLP as terrorist organizations. Edwin Black wrote about European funding of these NGOs, one of which was in turn linked to illegal settlements in Area C in 2019 as part of his wider Area C investigation.

11 Nov 2021
Duke's student newspaper, The Chronicle, reported that SSI's charter had been approved and that updated rules had been read.

15 Nov 2021
A student tweeted an objection to SSI's charter and the head of the student government subsequently vetoed the approval.

16 Nov 2021
SSI president Ilan Sinelnikov posted an initial response to the student government veto of the chapter.

17 Nov 2021
The Chronicle published an op-ed by Duke Friends of Israel and Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee titled "It's okay to support Israel," in which they urged the student government to adopt IHRA's working definition of antisemitism.

24 Nov 2021
Duke President Vincent E. Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth announced the student government decision "raised concerns about whether students have been treated in accordance with university policy that prohibits discrimination and harassment based upon national origin and religion, which includes anti-Semitism," and that the university "has identified options for SSI to secure financial and programmatic support" even without student government recognition.

28 Nov 2021
Ilan Sinelnikov welcomed the administration's move, but believes that the administration can reverse the student government’s action and allow the SSI to be "treated just like any other club ..."

8 Dec 2021
StopAntiSemitism.org reported that Duke’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter had published "erroneous claims about the nature of Zionism" over the summer and rebutted those claims.

14 Dec 2021
The Brandeis Center reminded the university's president that alternative support, while welcome, is insufficient and that Duke has obligations under civil rights legislation to make sure that SSI is treated the same as other student body organization. Coverage of the Brandeis letter appeared on Fox News and Yahoo News. In addition, the ZOA reminded President Price of the university's civil rights obligations and urged him to override the student government's decision. 

21 Dec 2021
The JTA also reported on the ongoing issue, pointing out that the Brandeis Center had received a reply from the president that  the administration was “taking these allegations seriously, consistent with the [2020] resolution agreement.”

27 Dec 2021
The ADL joined those reminding Duke leadership of their responsibilities; student members of the SSI report that university leadership have not communicated with them since their 24 November statement and relate some of their discriminatory experience during the approval process for their campus chapter—including a student government meeting on Yom Kippur.