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October 18, 2021

Reopening a Defunct Consulate Announces That Jerusalem Is Not Part of Israel

The U.S. doesn’t need two missions in one city.

When the American embassy in Jerusalem opened three years ago, it took over the responsibilities of the consulate that had operated there since 1844. But the Biden administration seems intent on resurrecting the consulate as a delegation to the Palestinian Authority. Nowhere else does the U.S. have both a consulate and an embassy in the same city. Nathan and Alyza Lewin write:

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