1. New from FMEP 2. Gaza 3. West Bank 4. Region/Diplomacy 5. US Scene 6. Long Reads/Perspectives 1. New from FMEP Three new Occupied Thoughts…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Massive Supplemental Aid for Israel Takes Center Stage 4. Hearings & Markups 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks to international legal expert in business and human rights Tara Van Ho about the latest…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP non-resident fellow Peter Beinart interviews Chris Gunness, formerly the Spokesman and Director of Strategic Communications at UNRWA. They…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Saudi researcher and analyst of Saudi foreign policy Aziz Alghashian about the impact of Israel’s…

“Israeli officials did not provide evidence confirming their allegations, but the announcement was followed by a swift suspension of UNRWA funding by countries including the United States, Canada, Finland, and the United Kingdom—imperiling the donor-supported agency’s ability to continue providing shelter, food, sanitation, and other basic services to more than 1 million Palestinians who are sheltering in its facilities in Gaza. Now, said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, the proposed package ‘bars all funding in the pipeline’ to UNRWA. ‘I don’t see any other way to read it.'”

“Although the IHRA was ostensibly founded to combat Holocaust denialism, its definition of antisemitism was in fact a response to the Second Intifada, an uprising by Palestinians against the ongoing Israeli occupation, as Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) points out. Organizations committed to Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, like the American Jewish Committee, expressly sought a definition of antisemitism that would include anti-Zionism, and the IHRA’s working definition gave it to them in 2016.” [linked to Lara Friedman article in University of the Pacific Law Review]

1. New from FMEP 2. Gaza 3. West Bank 4. Region/Global 5. US Scene 6. Israeli Scene 7. Long Reads/Perspectives   1. New from FMEP…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Massive Supplemental Aid for Israel Takes Center Stage 4. Hearings & Markups 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New…

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