Media
-
-
Settlement Report: February 6, 2020
Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To subscribe to this report, please click here.…
-
Top News from Israel & Palestine: February 5, 2020
-
Where Is the World for the Palestinians? By HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
The cynical among us might conclude, with Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, that “peace between Israelis and Palestinians is not a consideration. It is just cosmetics.” The US administration’s earlier actions – endorsement of Israel’s West Bank settlements, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, and cutting funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (which supports Palestinian refugees) – certainly suggest as much. As Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, put it in 2018: “It’s very clear that the overarching goal is to eliminate the Palestinian refugees as an issue by defining them out of existence.” Kushner’s proposal does the same to the Palestinians as a whole and Palestine as a functioning entity.
-
Top News from Israel & Palestine: February 4, 2020
-
Politics Theory Other: Trump’s apartheid plan w/ Lara Friedman
Lara Friedman joins host Alex Doherty for “Politics Theory Other,” a podcast from Tribune magazine on radical politics, critical theory, and culture. Alex “Lara Friedman…
-
Top News from Israel and Palestine: February 3, 2020
-
Politics Theory Other – PTO Extra! Trump’s apartheid plan w/ Lara Friedman
“Lara Friedman joins me to discuss the so-called Trump peace plan and the Israel-Palestine conflict. We spoke about the extent to which the plan diverges…
-
What books should Jared Kushner have read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Book recommendation from Lara Friedman, president, Foundation for Middle East Peace — Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erekat; Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar; Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska; Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump by Khaled Elgindy; The Accidental Empire by Gershom Gorenberg; Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settlement Movement by Robert I. Friedman; Dear Brothers: The West Bank Jewish Underground by Haggai Segal; The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
-
Settlement Report [The Trump Plan Edition]: January 31, 2020
Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To subscribe to this report, please click here.…