Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report. To subscribe to this report, please click here. June 12, 2026 WEST BANK: Israel Expediting NIS 1 Billion…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters & Reports 3. Hearings & Markups 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements My comment…

New from FMEP Global/Region Gaza River to the Sea U.S. Scene Perspectives//Long Reads NEW FROM FMEP How the Iran War will change the Middle East…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters & Reports 3. Hearings & Markups 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New episodes…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report. To subscribe to this report, please click here. June 5, 2026 WEST BANK: E-1 Update; High Council Advances…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Professor Dana El Kurd (University of Richmond) and Professor Nader Hashemi (Georgetown University) about how the…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Harrison Mann, a former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency…

“NOT SO FAST: Last week in this space, we reported that a new Senate bill, the Jewish American Security Act, had been amended before introduction to remove language codifying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which considers much criticism of Israel to be antisemitic. We suggested that the bill as it stands would not push forward the longstanding Jewish establishment goal of enshrining IHRA in federal law. Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and an experienced tracker of Hill legislation related to Israel/Palestine and antisemitism, disagrees with our analysis. In her legislative round-up last week, Friedman wrote that the language on IHRA that was removed from the bill was immaterial, given that the bill still cites President Trump’s 2019 executive order endorsing IHRA. ‘Absent an affirmative repudiation of the IHRA definition and/or the articulation of a clear alternative definition—something the forces behind this bill would never accept—any antisemitism legislation adopted under the Trump administration will, first and foremost, codify into law and expand enforcement of the IHRA definition,’ Friedman told Jewish Currents today. ‘Removal of explicit references to the IHRA definition from the bill is performative—it is about appearances, not impact. Doing so did little more than offer a pretext for some who are ostensibly concerned about that definition to demonstrate they can be part of a big tent solution.’”

New from FMEP Global/Region Gaza River to the Sea U.S. Scene Perspectives//Long Reads NEW FROM FMEP Unveiling AIPAC & the Israel Lobby (New podcast episode)…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Omar Shakir, Executive Director of Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), about DAWN’s new…