BDS Is A Trap For Democrats
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, published in The Forward on January 28, 2019. — Some are predicting that Israel-Palestine will be the big foreign policy issue…
Media
-
-
The Surprising New Battleground In the War Against Palestinian Rights: Your Local Courthouse
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, published in The Forward on January 7, 2019. On November 26, 2018, a New York-based lawyer named David Abrams announcedthat he…
-
Birthright Will Fail If It Doesn’t Evolve With Young Jews
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published on The Forward on January 3, 2019. _ On New Year’s Day, a young woman rushed the stage at the…
-
No, BDS Is Not Anti-Semitic, And Neither Is Ilhan Omar.
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on November 19, 2018. It turns out that Ilhan Omar, who this month became the first Somali…
-
Israel Has Detained An American Student For A Week. But No One Cares, Because She’s Not Jewish.
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on October 9, 2018 When I was detained at Ben Gurion airport in August, Benjamin Netanyahu apologized.…
-
I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on August 13, 2018 Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my…
-
Israel Made A Huge Mistake. Trump Is Terrible For The Jews
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, originally published in The Forward on June 18, 2018. _ A recent poll found that three out of four Israelis approve of…
-
[In German] “Trumps Weg nach Groß-Israel”
Op-ed by Lara Friedman published by Frankfurter Rundschau on March 19, 2018. Während die EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Außenministerrat diskutieren, wie der Nahost-Friedensprozess wiederbelebt werden könnte, wird über…
-
Europe must prepare to stand up to Trump on Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace’ plan
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in Euractive, March 20, 2018. Nobody can say with certainty what Trump’s plan will entail or when (or even if) it will be released. However, President Trump has already given a powerful clue indicating the direction his policies are likely to take, in the form of his historic 6 December 2017 decision to change decades-old US policy vis-à-vis Jerusalem.
-
U.S. Politicians Are Backing a Free Speech Exception for Israel — & Creating a Template for Broader Assault on the First Amendment
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published on Medium, March 19, 2018. In the turbulent Trump era, concern about free speech is a bipartisan affair. Republicans decry efforts to silence voices of the political and religious Right; Democrats celebrate protests against the Trump administration and its policies. At the same time, however, lawmakers from both parties are working together to erode the First Amendment, in a joint effort to create a new political free speech exception for Israel. The potential ramifications of this effort are far-reaching and should provoke deep bipartisan alarm.