FMEP Legislative Round-Up: December 10, 2021
1. Bills, Resolutions, Letters 2. FY22 NDAA (cont.) 3. Hearings & Markups 4. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace…
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Settlement & Annexation Report: December 10, 2021
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.…
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Top News & Analysis from Israel & Palestine: December 9, 2021
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Texas & the Constitutional Right to Boycott
In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” Peter Beinart interviews Texas speech pathologist Bahia Amawi and CAIR attorney Gadeir Abbas about the fight for the right…
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Israeli Government Escalates Pressure on Israelis Who Stand in Solidarity with Palestinians
In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” Lara Friedman interviews Oriel Eisner and Maya Eshel, two activists who were detained by the Israeli police last week…
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FMEP Legislative Round-Up: December 3, 2021
1. Bills, Resolutions, Letters 2. FY22 NDAA – Senate (cont.) 3. Hearings & Markups 4. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans…
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Settlement & Annexation Report: December 3, 2021
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.…
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Top News & Analysis from Israel & Palestine: December 2, 2021
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Is the Biden-Bennett honeymoon over? Here are 6 US-Israel issues that are raising tensions. (JTA)
“The old consulate predated Israel’s existence, which meant that until Trump closed it, there was no need to seek Israel’s approval for its ongoing function. That’s no longer the case, according to Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace think tank, who from 1992-1994 was a U.S. diplomat at the consulate. ‘A diplomatic mission operates as, literally, an island of foreign sovereignty within the territory of the host country, staffed by foreign diplomats who (for the most part) enjoy immunity from the jurisdiction of the host government,’ Friedman wrote last month in her weekly roundup of congressional action related to the Middle East. ‘No nation can simply rent/buy a property in a foreign country and declare it, unilaterally, under their own country’s sovereignty. The host country must consent to giving up its sovereignty to a foreign nation.'”
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Scorched Earth & Settlements in Jerusalem
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Kristin McCarthy speaks with Daniel Seidemann (Terrestrial Jerusalem) about a myriad of developments in Jerusalem – – and the political, diplomatic, and bureaucratic forces at play behind them.