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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: March 9, 2018
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FMEP Legislative Round-Up: March 9, 2018
*Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Round-Up was born! [Note: Stay tuned next week for a full Round-Up; this…
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Settlement Report: March 9, 2018
FMEP’s report on Israeli settlement activity, this week covering: A new settlement in Hebron; a looming Israeli plan to unite and expand settlements near Qalqilya; the High Court is reviewing Israel’s practice of paying-off law breakers who live in outposts; new documents reveal government funds are being used to finance infrastructure in unauthorized outposts; a new Israeli Central Commander is sworn in; a new report by the EU shows a major acceleration in settlement planning over the last half of 2017; notable settlement related news from the 2018 AIPAC national conference.
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: March 8, 2018
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AIPAC’s Struggle to Avoid the Fate of the NRA
Op-ed by Peter Beinart originally published in The Atlantic, March 6, 2018 Commentators sometimes compare the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to the National Rifle…
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Israel anti-boycott bill inches closer to passing Senate after revisions
“The only concrete thing ‘softened’ by the new text is the removal of jail time for violations,” said Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, a nonprofit opposed to Israel’s West Bank settlements. The bill, she said, was also tweaked “so that the law does not necessarily apply to individuals if they are acting in an exclusively personal, private capacity.”
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: March 7, 2018
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: March 6, 2018
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What would the [“SOFTENED”] Israel Anti-Boycott Act Actually Do?
People continue to argue about what the Israel Anti-Boycott Act would or wouldn’t do, or aim or doesn’t aim to do. It is a very…