Why So Much Fuss About A Conference In North Carolina?
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, published in LobeLog on April 24, 2019. The ongoing hullabaloo over an academic conference organized by the University of North Carolina…
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HRW — US: States Use Anti-Boycott Laws to Punish Responsible Businesses
…The Foundation for Middle East Peace published a chart listing the 17 states whose anti-boycott laws or implementing guidelines penalize businesses that boycott Israel or the territories controlled by Israel, a phrase that applies to the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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US: States Use Anti-Boycott Laws to Punish Responsible Businesses
The Foundation for Middle East Peace published a chart listing the 17 states whose anti-boycott laws or implementing guidelines penalize businesses that boycott Israel or the territories controlled by Israel, a phrase that applies to the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: April 23, 2019
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Politifact: Was Jimmy Carter the last president to call Israeli settlements illegal?
Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, which supports a two-state solution, told PolitiFact that, “in effect, Carter was agreeing with the assertion that he views settlements as illegal — in that they were contrary to the Geneva Convention, meaning illegal — without using that word himself.” At least one of Carter’s subordinates went so far as to use the word “illegal” — the United States representative to the United Nations, William Scranton, in a 1976 speech. “Substantial resettlement of the Israeli civilian population in occupied territories, including in East Jerusalem, is illegal under the (Geneva) Convention,” Scanton said. Friedman added that a group of memos to Carter from his chief of staff Hamilton Jordan used the term “illegal” in relation to Israeli settlements 16 times…
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: April 22, 2019
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Settlement Report: April 19, 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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FMEP Legislative Round-Up: April 19, 2019
1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters 2. Hearings 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Round-Up was…
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: April 19, 2019
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Occupied Thoughts: A Civil Discussion About The BDS Movement w/ Peter Beinart & Omar Barghouti
In this special, live episode of FMEP’s podcast “Occupied Thoughts,” Peter Beinart talks to Omar Barghouti, one of the Palestinian founders of the global BDS…