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 here.…

1.Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Israel & AIPAC in the 2024 Election Cycle 3. Hearings & Markups 4. Media & Reports 5. Members on the…

1.Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Israel & AIPAC in the 2024 Election Cycle 3. Hearings & Markups 4. Media & Reports 5. Members on the…

In this episode of the Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP president Lara Friedman speaks with Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould, author of the newly published book, Erasing…

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 here.…

1.Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Israel & AIPAC in the 2024 Election Cycle 3. Hearings & Markups 4. Media & Reports 5. Members on the…

“Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, underscored that Biden’s vice presidency taught him to apply this logic to Israel, convincing him that fighting with Netanyahu over settlement building would lead him to ‘hemorrhage domestic political capital.’ Friedman cited right-wing attacks painting both Biden and Obama as hostile to Israel during their presidential campaigns, and noted the recent escalation of such tactics, with AIPAC’s unprecedented spending to defeat progressive candidates during the 2022 Democratic primaries. ‘Biden’s overarching priority is, understandably, ensuring that Democrats hold seats in Congress and the White House,’ she said. ‘They know this is an issue that can be weaponized against them in elections.’”