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1. Bills, Resolutions, Letters 2. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Round-Up was born!

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1. Bills, Resolutions, Letters 2. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Round-Up was born! NOTE: This…

“Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, explained: ‘A diplomatic mission operates as, literally, an island of foreign sovereignty within the territory of the host country, staffed by foreign diplomats who (for the most part) enjoy immunity from the jurisdiction of the host government… to forcibly enter those embassies would be tantamount to an attack on the country itself.’ Even if a country decided that, since East Jerusalem is occupied territory under international law, it could go ahead and establish such an office — something that the United States would never even consider — practical concerns would make this impossible, as Friedman explains. ‘Only a host country can decide whether to issue diplomatic visas to people sent by a foreign country,’ she wrote, ‘and without such visas there is no diplomatic immunity for diplomats (and the U.S. will not send diplomats abroad in such a situation).'”

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“Over the last year, it has become common to hear American progressives condemned for projecting their own concerns—for instance, about anti-Black racism—onto Israel-Palestine. In a recent essay in The Atlantic, Susie Linfield quotes the Israeli journalist Etan Nechin, who claims that the American left treats Israel-Palestine as ‘an offshoot of [its own] identity politics.’ American leftists, Linfield insists, ‘seem as uninterested in the rich texture of Palestinian politics as they are in Israeli politics.’ The irony of this critique is that Israel’s US critics devote far more attention to the realities of Palestinian life than do its supporters. In the two weeks after Palestinian groups were labeled terrorist organizations, for instance, Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (where I’m a fellow) and the former director of policy and government relations at Americans for Peace Now, tweeted about the designation dozens of times.”