FMEP President Lara Friedman has for years been researching and documenting ongoing Israel-Palestine-related “lawfare” efforts — i.e., efforts to exploit U.S. laws (state and federal) and courts to quash criticism and activism challenging Israeli policies, to delegitimize Palestinian organizations and the Palestinian cause, and to undermine and even criminalize support for and solidarity with the Palestinian people. The results of her research — in the form of regularly updated databases, reports, analyses, and op-eds — is collected below.
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Analysis by FMEP’s Lara Friedman, published at the American Prospect on November 12, 2020 Weaponizing Anti-Semitism, State Department Delegitimizes Human Rights Groups Authoritarian regimes and…
Analysis by FMEP’s Lara Friedman, published at Jewish Currents on August 19, 2020 Israel-Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Label Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech…
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, originally published by Jewish Currents on February 20, 2020. _ A NEW WEAPON has been unveiled in the battle to quash activism…
Op-ed by FMEP’s Lara Friedman, originally published at Responsible Statecraft, Dec. 12, 2019 What does an antisemitism spewing, Nazi dog-whistling President give his favorite Jewish…
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published on Medium, March 19, 2018. In the turbulent Trump era, concern about free speech is a bipartisan affair. Republicans decry efforts to silence voices of the political and religious Right; Democrats celebrate protests against the Trump administration and its policies. At the same time, however, lawmakers from both parties are working together to erode the First Amendment, in a joint effort to create a new political free speech exception for Israel. The potential ramifications of this effort are far-reaching and should provoke deep bipartisan alarm.
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the Forward, January 31, 2018 The recent Pew Poll reporting a decline in Democratic support for Israel sparked…
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in The Forward, January 9, 2018 Over the weekend, in a decision redolent of the repressive policies of the…