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Top News from Israel & Palestine: July 30, 2021
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FMEP Legislative Round-Up: July 30, 2021
1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. FY22 SFOPS on the House Floor 3. Hearings & Markups 4. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation…
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Settlement & Annexation Report: July 30, 2021
Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report. To subscribe to this report, please click here. July 30, 2021 Sheikh Jarrah Updates: Court Issues Delays for…
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Top News from Palestine & Israel: July 29, 2021
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NSO Group & Israel’s expertise in spyware & repression
In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” FMEP’s Peter Beinart interviews Yousef Munayyer and Dahlia Scheindlin about the Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group, which leases military-grade surveillance…
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Palestinian Liberation & Leadership: What’s Next?
Palestinian Liberation & Leadership: What’s Next? Tareq Baconi (Crisis Group) and Inès Abdel Razek (PIPD) with Lara Friedman (FMEP) Wednesday, July 28 Listen to this…
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Times of Israel: How McDonald’s took the same stance as Ben & Jerry’s but avoided public backlash
“‘Israel decides to make an issue of people differentiating [between] settlements [and Israel proper] when it feels like it,’ she [FMEP’s Lara Friedman] said, referencing economic agreements former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government signed with the EU and South Korea and China that explicitly do not apply to the settlements. ‘In those cases [Netanyahu] didn’t make a deal of it or accuse them of boycotting Israel.’…FMEP’s Friedman explaining that Jerusalem seized on the public nature of Ben & Jerry’s announcement ‘as an opportunity, rather than a challenge.’ ‘Where McDonald’s is a challenge because [the government would] like to keep their branches in Israel, Ben & Jerry’s has been an opportunity to reframe the issue in terms of BDS and to send a warning message to anyone else who might want to do it,” she posited, noting that the same strategy was employed against Airbnb three years ago.'”
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Top News from Israel & Palestine: July 28, 2021
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Top News from Israel & Palestine: July 27, 2021