Is It Time to Reform International Aid to Palestine?  Recorded Tuesday, October 6th featuring Inès Abdel Razek (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy) Zayne Abudaka (Economist and Private-Sector…

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the…

“Friedman focused on potentially significant shifts in the U.S. political environment, including Rep. Eliot Engel’s (D-NY) primary loss to Jamaal Bowman and the resultant race to replace Engel as chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and other similar defeats of longtime House members to upstart progressive challengers. ‘Things are going to be changing in the next Congress,’ she said. ‘We’re going to see some of the old guard departing.’ Friedman noted that outside spending in Engel’s race and other primaries failed to prevent several incumbents from being unseated.
‘That sends a really powerful message to members of Congress,’ she said. ‘There is some hope that [in] the next House in particular, you will see more backbone.'” But Friedman said she does not expect much change from the status quo in a potential Joe Biden administration. ‘I think fundamentally it will be an effort to roll it back to the ‘highly successful’ — I say that with sarcasm — policy of the Obama administration,’ Friedman told the panel, adding: ‘Either Trump or Biden… I think it is going to be a more interesting situation next year where you potentially have more progressives willing to hold the line, particularly on constitutional matters.’”

On Sept. 30, 2020, as part of the Arab Center Washington DC’s fifth annual conference, FMEP President Lara Friedman participated in a panel discussion entitled,…