“…The resolution stated that members of the MLA, not the organization itself, endorse the 2005 Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS against Israel. Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said she doesn’t think a resolution expressing members’ sentiments toward BDS would violate anti-boycott laws, but that ‘doesn’t mean that you won’t see blowback.’ Friedman said these contract laws are weaponized by lawmakers to impose a chilling effect on companies. ‘Folks who are behind these laws, to some extent, are counting on [organizations] not being willing or able to defend their free-speech rights in court,’ she said.”

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 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Israel/Palestine in 2024 Elex/Politics 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New: On 11/7/24 the Arab American Institute…

The Arab American Institute hosted a webinar examining the results of the 2024 US Presidential election, featuring FMEP President Lara Friedman.  The panel provided analysis…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Israel/Palestine in 2024 Elex/Politics 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New :  11/1/24: WEBINAR co-convened by FMEP…

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.…

Israel’s UNRWA Ban: What it means for Gaza, the UN and the World Listen to this webinar as a podcast. Recorded November 1, 2024 Featuring…

In the wake of the 10/7/23 Hamas attack on Israel, Israel and some of its allies in the US and international community launched an all-out…

New from FMEP Gaza Region/Global River to the Sea U.S. Scene + Activism & Repression Perspectives//Long Reads NEW FROM FMEP Israel’s UNRWA Ban: What it…

“…As some advocates for Palestinian rights pointed out, Israel’s most recent attack on UNRWA is part of Israel’s long term strategy to target the UN and the very concept of international law in order to vastly erode the rights of Palestinian refugees, especially their right to return.
‘The campaign to end UNRWA pre-dates 10/7/23 by decades, and has NOTHING to do with terror,’ Foundation for Middle East Peace President Lara Friedman said. ‘It is and has always been about erasing Palestinians and Palestinian rights.’ Friedman pointed to an article she penned in 2018, in which she wrote that efforts to gut UNRWA are part of ‘unilateral action’ by Israel, the U.S., and other actors ‘to re-define Palestinian refugees out of existence.'”