“Foundation for Middle East Peace President Lara Friedman points out that a proposed Arizona amendment could potentially trample on free speech and target critics of Israel.

“Folks, they are going to make it a hate crime to meaningfully criticize/protest Israel,” tweeted Friedman.
As Friedman notes, the legislation would revise statutes relating to crime reporting, but the amendment has ramifications that go far beyond data collection…”

FMEP Non-Resident fellow Peter Beinart discuss a range of issues impacting Palestinian citizens of Israel with the highest ranking woman on the Joint List, MK…

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Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, expressed concern about false accusations of anti-Semitism and spurious charges of ties to terrorist organizations being used to silence the Palestinian solidarity movement. Organizations ranging from news outlets to civil society groups have been silenced by social media corporations and slammed with frivolous lawsuits over such allegations, she noted. “It’s an enormously powerful weapon that I don’t think people are effectively grappling with,” she cautioned.