1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. US Law, TFA, & Palestinian aid — Facts vs Fiction 3. Hearings & Markups 4. On the Record Special…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report. To subscribe to this report, please click here. March 25, 2021 Construction on Extension of “Apartheid Road” Slated…

“‘There seems to have been a pivot from trying to get Facebook to adopt the IHRA, to Facebook looking at defining the word ‘Zionist’ — used in any critical sense — as indistinguishable from antisemitism,’ said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace [full disclosure: the foundation financially supports +972 Magazine]. ‘This may be based on a good faith concern, as there are certainly instances of antisemites using the terms ‘Jewish’ and ‘Zionist’ interchangeably,’ Friedman continued. ‘But of course, the issue there isn’t the word but the context. Given the pressure around IHRA, it’s not paranoid to be concerned that this focus on the word ‘Zionist’ is just a back door to get the same impact that you would get if Facebook adopted IHRA in terms of stigmatizing and deplatforming criticism of Israel.’”

“On March 23rd, Israeli voters will head to the polls for the fourth time in the span of two years. Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to…