Op-ed by and Khaled Elgindy & Lara Friedman, originally published in LobeLog, November 29, 2017. The Trump administration’s recent decision to allow the Palestine Liberation…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To receive this report via email, please…

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People continue to argue about what the Israel Anti-Boycott Act would or wouldn’t do, or aim or doesn’t aim to do. It is a very odd debate, because this is a matter of facts, not opinion (opinions may well differ on what people hope it will or won’t do; the facts about what it would do to the law are a matter of record).

To facilitate a clearer debate about this issue, I’ve helpfully pulled into this document all of the existing law that would be amended by the S. 720 (with links), and then I’ve gone ahead and made the amendments that S. 270 would make in those laws.

Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the Huffington Post, December 7, 2017. Back in February 2016, a New York bankruptcy lawyer named David Friedman…

Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in Times of Israel, December 6, 2017. One memorable night in August 1993, I went to sleep in a…

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: Israel’s High Court orders the state to defend the Regulation Law a second time; Yesh Din petitions to rehear the Amona outpost case given recently revealed implications of the ruling; the Ofra settlement moves to retroactively legalize a sewage treatment plant; B’Tselem released a new report documenting Israel’s waste and sewage policies that harm Palestinians; the United Nations prepares to release a database of companies conducting business with Israeli settlements; an official says the U.S. announcement on Jerusalem has nothing to do with East Jerusalem settlements; Jared Kushner’s ties to pro-settlement activity continue to deepen.

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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…

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: Following Trump’s Jerusalem proclamation, Israel hints new plans for the East Jerusalem settlements of Atarot and Pisgat Ze’ev; a special committee fast tracks approval of a Jerusalem cable car project; the Knesset expedited funds earmarked in 2018 to immediately purchase armored buses for settlers; the 100+ settlers illegally squatting in a Hebron home have given conditions for their self-evacuation; a bill to annex schools inside of settlements gets government backing; a Knesset committee strips a non profit operating in an outpost of its tax benefits.