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  • FMEP Legislative Round-Up October 11, 2024

    1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Israel/Palestine in 2024 Elex/Politics 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New from FMEP: New episode of FMEP’s…

  • The (Bipartisan) Betrayal of Arab Americans

    In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Maya Berry, Executive Director of the Arab American Institute. The two discuss Maya’s experience testifying…

  • Joe Biden Chose This Catastrophic Path Every Step of the Way (former FMEP President Matt Duss in The New Republic)

    “…’The costs of these new rules of war’ that Biden has co-authored in Gaza, wrote Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, ‘will be paid with the blood of civilians worldwide for generations to come, and the U.S. responsibility for enabling, defending, and normalizing these new rules, and their horrific, dehumanizing consequences will not be forgotten.’”

  • Settlement & Annexation Report: October 4, 2024

    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.…

  • FMEP Legislative Round-Up October 4, 2024

    1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Israel/Palestine in 2024 Elex/Politics 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New from FMEP: 9/27/24: The Bottom Line/Al…

  • Flare-Up in Israel-Iran Conflict Leaves Harris Unable to Avoid the Subject (New York Times)

    “Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said that Ms. Harris seemed to have just hunkered down, waiting for Election Day before making any affirmative effort to change the course of events in the Middle East and pressure Mr. Netanyahu to de-escalate. It isn’t working — politically or diplomatically. ‘She was in a bind from the beginning,’ Ms. Friedman said. ‘if she gave an inch’ toward criticizing the Israeli government, ‘she would be framed as anti-Israel or even antisemitic. Even if she doesn’t give an inch, she’s still being framed as anti-Israel or antisemitic. So maybe it would be better to conceptualize and stand behind a defensible policy’ in the region, Ms. Friedman added.”

  • Settlement & Annexation Report: September 27, 2024

    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.…

  • FMEP Legislative Round-Up September 27, 2024

    1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Targeting/Slandering/Inciting Against Rep. Tlaib, Again (& twice over) 5. Israel/Palestine in 2024 Elex/Politics 6. Selected Media &…