1. New from FMEP 2. Gaza 3. River to the Sea 4. Region/Diplomacy 5. US Scene 6. Redefining Antisemitism//Lawfare//Media 7. Long Reads/Perspectives New from FMEP FMEP Legislative Round-Up: March…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings & Markups 4. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New: March 29, 2024: SETA Foundation event, The US Policy…

On 3/23/24, President Biden signed into law HR 2882, the “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024,” following passage in the House (vote) and Senate (vote).  HR…

“Now, Netanyahu’s extremist allies are using the pretext of Hamas’s attacks to fundamentally reshape Gaza and Palestine. ‘Israel this time has a different set of objectives,’ Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace told me. ‘They want to take this moment to fundamentally change the paradigm and erase Gaza.'”

“Instead of constituting a substantive shift in US support for Israel, experts say, Democrats’ emboldened critique of Netanyahu should be understood as an attempt to respond to growing voter frustration without changing policy, as the Biden administration remains unwilling to use US aid and arms exports to Israel as leverage to demand a change in behavior. In this context, the choice to focus on Netanyahu ‘is a political decision to avoid outright criticism of Israel’s war conduct,’ said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. For Schumer, in particular, blaming Netanyahu as an individual was a way ‘to avoid the implication that he is lessening his support for the Israeli state or the Israeli people,’ she said. ‘Instead, Schumer is focusing on a man who is unpopular among Democrats to say, ‘See, we are standing up for our values, so voters should stop being mad at us.’’”

“’No one says we need the I.H.R.A. definition so we can go after Nazis talking about killing Jews or classic antisemitic tropes about Jews and media and banks,’ said Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. The definition, rather, ‘is about getting at this other supposed antisemitism.’”

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. New from FMEP 2. Gaza 3. River to the Sea 4. Region/Diplomacy 5. US Scene 6. Redefining Antisemitism/Lawfare 7. Long Reads/Perspectives New from FMEP Rania Batrice & Ryan…

1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. UNRWA 4. Hearings & Markups 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New episode of FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast: 3/21/24:…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice speaks with journalist Ryan Grim about the limitations of mainstream media’s reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza and…