Watch Part 2 Here Here is a selection of additional resources on the issues discussed during this webinar: Public Committee Against Torture – Israel: http://stoptorture.org.il/?lang=en…

“A New York-based pro-Israel group has latched onto President Donald Trump’s December anti-Semitism order in the first known legal maneuver invoking the recent executive edict to challenge a pro-Palestinian organization’s tax-exempt status… ‘Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, who has written extensively about what she calls Abrams’ ‘legal activism,’ said that the New York lawyer seems to be ‘trying to establish a novel interpretation of US law.’ In effect, Friedman said, ‘Abrams appears to be telling the IRS that tax-exempt status in itself should be viewed as a form of federal financial assistance, and that therefore the EO should apply.’”

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“‘The fact that this is the single issue they have put in the coalition agreement bar the coronavirus is significant… Also Gantz has no way of stopping it even if there is a vote,’ said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a former US foreign service officer. ‘The only way this doesn’t move forward is if Bibi throws himself on his sword, which means taking on his right-wing supporters in Israel and in the US.’ If Trump loses the US elections, Israel will have lost its most amenable US president.”