UNESCO’s Resolution, Jerusalem’s Reality
The UNESCO resolution deserves criticism, but let’s understand what the genuine threats to peace really are.
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The Settlements vs. the Peace Process
On Wednesday, in the wake of Israel’s announcement of hundreds of more units in West Bank settlements, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a…
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Palestinian president Abbas criticized for attending Shimon Peres funeral
The passing of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding generation of statesmen, has prompted an avalanche of eulogies from the international…
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Q&A with Rebecca Vilkomerson
Rebecca Vilkomerson has been a member of Jewish Voice for Peace since 2001 and the group’s Executive Director since 2009. She lived with her family…
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Five Takeaways from the US-Israel MOU
On Wednesday Israel and the United States finally signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), committing the United States to provide Israel with $38 billion…
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Settlement Withdrawal And “Ethnic Cleansing”
Earlier today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office tweeted out a short video in which Netanyahu confronts the claim, made regularly by the United States and the rest…
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Q&A with Sam Bahour
Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the…
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Just Vision: How Women Wage Conflict Without Violence
At the 2016 TED Summit, Just Vision Creative Director Julia Bacha talked about how conflicts where one or both sides use non-violence methods and include women…
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FMEP Interviews Prof. Dov Waxman
Dov Waxman is Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies, and the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University.…
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ANERA: Report from the Field
In August 2016, American Near East Refugee Aid President Bill Corcoran led a trip to Gaza and the West Bank to gauge the progress being…