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…

“‘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.'”

In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” FMEP’s Kristin McCarthy talks to Avner Gvaryahu (Breaking the Silence) about a new collection of testimonies from former Israeli…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report. To subscribe to this report, please click here. July 23, 2021 Ben & Jerry’s Announces End of Ice…

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the…

In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” Peter Beinart interviews FMEP President Lara Friedman about the potential blowback Ben & Jerry’s faces for their decision to…