1. Bills, Resolutions, Letters 2. Hearings & Travel 3. On the Record

On 6/22/22, the House Appropriations Committee’s State and Foreign Operations (aka, SFOPS) Subcommittee marked up and adopted the Subcommittee’s draft of the FY23 SFOPS Appropriations…

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1. Bills, Resolutions, Letters 2. Hearings 3. On the Record FMEP Events: 6/22/22 – New episode of FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast – “The Imperative of…

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…

“While the Biden administration is still publicly committed to negotiating a renewed nuclear deal, a ‘Plan B’ if the talks fail is sure to be on the agenda during Biden’s meetings with Bennett and Lapid, as is a likely series of US-led initiatives to strengthen regional deterrence. Outgoing PM Bennett is expected to informally serve as the interim government’s minister in charge of the Iran portfolio. Lara Friedman, president of the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, expects that Biden and Lapid will put forward a united front on Iran. ‘I think they’re going to just try to be as conciliatory as possible, saying we’re all on the same side trying to do this same thing.’”

There is an ongoing campaign in Congress and in state legislatures to pass laws barring BDS against Israel and/or boycotts or other forms of economic…

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with preeminent journalist Dalia Hatuqa about the killing of her friend and fellow journalist Shireen…

“Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (and a Jewish Currents contributing writer), said that anti-BDS advocates, including supporters of anti-BDS legislation, are clearly concerned when companies take an explicit political position. ‘They care about the political implications of a statement that says, ‘We have a disagreement with Israel and its politics in the West Bank,’ she said. Often, Friedman noted, companies attempt to boycott only the occupied territories while continuing their operations in the rest of Israel, but anti-BDS campaigners seem to find that especially enraging. ‘The act of making a distinction is what pisses people off,’ she said. Airbnb, for example, was forced to reverse its policy of not listing rentals in the settlements in 2019 after facing global backlash.”