Time to Take Trump at His Word on Israel-Palestine
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in LobeLog.com December 11, 2017. Since well before Election Day, Donald Trump and his key advisors made clear that…
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That Palestinian Girl’s Viral Video? The Real Scandal Is That Israeli Troops Were There At All
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the The Forward, December 20, 2017. The video is striking — no pun intended. A 16 year-old Palestinian girl in the…
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Key Take-Aways from UNGA Vote on Jerusalem: Facts vs Spin
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the Huffington Post, December 27, 2017. Last week, on December 21st, the United States took off the gloves at…
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Taking Issues “Off the Table” – First Jerusalem, Now Refugees
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…
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Israel’s Deplorable Boycott Of BDS Supporters Is Just The Beginning
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…
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BDS Opponents Want Israel Held To A Lower Standard
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…
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AIPAC’s Struggle to Avoid the Fate of the NRA
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…
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U.S. Politicians Are Backing a Free Speech Exception for Israel — & Creating a Template for Broader Assault on the First Amendment
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.
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Europe must prepare to stand up to Trump on Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace’ plan
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.
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[In German] “Trumps Weg nach Groß-Israel”
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…