FMEP Legislative Round-Up: August 2, 2019
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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Settlement Report: August 2, 2019
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…
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Top News from Israel & Palestine: August 2, 2019
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Occupied Thoughts: With US Elex on the Horizon, Where’s Isr-Pal Discourse Going? W/ Lara Friedman & Peter Beinart
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…
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Top News from Israel & Palestine: August 1, 2019
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Top News from Israel & Palestine: July 31, 2019
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Top News from Israel & Palestine: July 30, 2019
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AIPAC May Be Celebrating Now, but the BDS Battles in Congress Have Just Begun
“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.”
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Republicans push bill to crack down on ‘hateful’ ‘heinous’ BDS movement
“‘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.’
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The Real Reason So Many Republicans Love Israel? Their Own White Supremacy.
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…