“There is wiggle room in the law — both on the PLO mission and the aid — for an administration to either certify or decertify depending what it wants to do,” Lara Friedman tells Jewish Insider.

FMEP’s Lara Friedman talks to Al-Monitor about the Trump administration’s decision to allow the PLO mission in Washington, DC to operate as long as it “limit its activities to those related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”

“In tandem with efforts to [legislate] against boycotts of Israel and settlements, [Kenneth] Marcus has long been a vocal advocate of efforts, unsuccessful so far, to pass laws at both the federal and state level defining activism targeting Israel as anti-Semitism, and imposing a gag rule on such activism,” Lara Friedman told the Intercept.

The Foundation for Middle East Peace has documented at least 28 bills introduced since 2015, targeting Israel boycotts and including in its definition of Israel its settlements in the West Bank. Critics say these anti-BDS bills are problematic because they conflate Israel with its illegal settlements, and stifle free speech.

Lara Friedman explains why Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations should not be treated as every other diplomat.

“Bottom line is that Bibi [Netanyahu] had plenty of warning from his own security people that this wasn’t simply a security matter,” Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

Watch FMEP President Lara Friedman discuss the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation and debate the two state solution on this Al Jazeera UpFront special.

Ahead of President Trump’s visit to Israel, VICE interviewed Lara Friedman on what to expect.

Vox News interviews FMEP’s Matthew Duss on what Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Israeli-Palestinian peace means.

Daveed Gartenstein Ross and FMEP’s Matthew Duss discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump.