FMEP’s Lara Friedman talks to the Intercept about the Feinstein letter urging Netanyahu not to demolish the Palestinian Bedouin villages of Susiya and Khan Al-Ahmar.

Op-ed by and Khaled Elgindy & Lara Friedman, originally published in LobeLog, November 29, 2017. The Trump administration’s recent decision to allow the Palestine Liberation…

“There is wiggle room in the law — both on the PLO mission and the aid — for an administration to either certify or decertify depending what it wants to do,” Lara Friedman tells Jewish Insider.

On 11/16, NGO Monitor (NGOM) published a hit-piece attacking legislation introduced by Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), HR 4391, promoting the human rights of Palestinian children and seeking to ensure that United States tax dollars are not supporting violations of these rights by Israeli authorities. Below is a point-by-point analysis of NGOM’s “analysis” of the bill.

FMEP’s Lara Friedman talks to Al-Monitor about the Trump administration’s decision to allow the PLO mission in Washington, DC to operate as long as it “limit its activities to those related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: two legal opinions issued by Israeli Attorney General defending the retroactive legalization of outposts via the expropriation of privately owned Palestinian land; Israel fast-tracks a Jerusalem cable car line despite growing opposition and serious consequences for Palestinians in Silwan; another bedouin community in the E-1 settlement area faces eviction; and, settlers fight for their “right of return” to inaccessible settlements.