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  • Settlement & Annexation Report: May 30, 2025

    Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report, this week we are issuing an covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this…

  • FMEP Legislative Round-Up May 30, 2025

    1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements   1. Bills & Resolutions (CONDEMNING…

  • How a controversial definition of antisemitism is making its way into state laws — from banning masks to training cops (The Forward)

    “Many of the new state laws build on previous resolutions endorsing the IHRA definition, integrating it into codes of conduct at universities and public K-12 schools. That could give administrators more leeway to classify ambiguous incidents as antisemitic — and discipline students accordingly. ‘Once you’ve adopted the IHRA definition, there really isn’t any question. You’re going to shut down all sorts of free speech,’ said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. ‘You say ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine is free’ — done, you’re guilty of antisemitism. You say that Israel is a racist state — done, antisemitism.’”

  • The ‘Nonprofit Killer Bill’ Could Rise Again (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

    (interview with FMEP’s Lara Friedman)

    excerpt: “…This piece of legislation is sort of ripping the mask off. There’s no pretense. Initially, it was clearly focused on Palestinians. The intent behind this law is to make it easier to simply strip away the 501(c)(3) status of organizations for disfavored political views and speech.”

  • FMEP Legislative Round-Up May 23, 2025

    1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New from FMEP: New episode of…

  • Measure targeting pro-Palestine NGOs disappears from US tax bill (Al Jazeera)

    “Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said it would be ‘interesting’ to see how Republican leaders would deal with staunchly pro-Israel measures like the ‘nonprofit killer’ going forward. ‘They on the one hand likely see this as a fun opportunity to embarrass Democrats – whose opposition will be framed as anti-Israel or enabling terror and antisemitism – and on the other hand they have to worry about principled opposition from within their own ranks,’ Friedman told Al Jazeera in a statement.”