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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reflections on the Death of the Peace Process
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…
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Making America’s Mideast Policy Great Again?
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…
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Locking Palestinians in a Flawed Peace Process
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…