Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on November 19, 2018. It turns out that Ilhan Omar, who this month became the first Somali…

Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on October 9, 2018 When I was detained at Ben Gurion airport in August, Benjamin Netanyahu apologized.…

Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on August 13, 2018 Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my…

Op-ed by Lara Friedman published by Frankfurter Rundschau on March 19, 2018. Während die EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Außenministerrat diskutieren, wie der Nahost-Friedensprozess wiederbelebt werden könnte, wird über…

Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in Euractive, March 20, 2018. Nobody can say with certainty what Trump’s plan will entail or when (or even if) it will be released. However, President Trump has already given a powerful clue indicating the direction his policies are likely to take, in the form of his historic 6 December 2017 decision to change decades-old US policy vis-à-vis Jerusalem.

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 Peter Beinart originally published in The Atlantic, March 6, 2018 Commentators sometimes compare the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to the National Rifle…

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…

Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the Huffington Post, January 5, 2018. Last month, President Donald Trump granted a cherished wish of American and…