1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plugs: +972 podcast featuring, “How BDS Became Such A Big Deal…

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In this new episode of Occupied Thoughts (recorded 8/1/19), Peter & Lara discuss how Israel-Palestine is playing into the current political discourse across the political…

“But anyone who believes that this resolution will in any way resolve or mitigate the bitter political wrangling over BDS has been drinking too much celebratory champagne, said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace — a nonprofit that promotes a two-state solution. ‘You’d have to be delusional to think that this is over,’ said Friedman.”

“‘The resolution is a far-reaching, unambiguous indictment of anyone who boycotts Israel,’ tweeted Foundation for Middle East Peace President Lara Friedman before the bill was passed. ‘Folks who support it are in effect legitimizing the same simplistic narrative that is being used to justify laws quashing free speech…Folks who support it are going to be called hypocrites if they subsequently vote against legislation trying to fight what they have in effect labeled an evil scourge.’

Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on July 29, 2019. _ If you listened earlier this month to Republican responses to Donald Trump’s…