Op-ed by Lara Friedman, published in LobeLog on April 24, 2019. The ongoing hullabaloo over an academic conference organized by the University of North Carolina…

…The Foundation for Middle East Peace published a chart listing the 17 states whose anti-boycott laws or implementing guidelines penalize businesses that boycott Israel or the territories controlled by Israel, a phrase that applies to the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The Foundation for Middle East Peace published a chart listing the 17 states whose anti-boycott laws or implementing guidelines penalize businesses that boycott Israel or the territories controlled by Israel, a phrase that applies to the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, which supports a two-state solution, told PolitiFact that, “in effect, Carter was agreeing with the assertion that he views settlements as illegal — in that they were contrary to the Geneva Convention, meaning illegal — without using that word himself.” At least one of Carter’s subordinates went so far as to use the word “illegal” — the United States representative to the United Nations, William Scranton, in a 1976 speech. “Substantial resettlement of the Israeli civilian population in occupied territories, including in East Jerusalem, is illegal under the (Geneva) Convention,” Scanton said. Friedman added that a group of memos to Carter from his chief of staff Hamilton Jordan used the term “illegal” in relation to Israeli settlements 16 times…

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