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• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: March 26, 2021

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. US Law, TFA, & Palestinian aid — Facts vs Fiction 3. Hearings & Markups 4. On the Record Special…

• Is Facebook about to crack down on criticism of Zionism? (+972 Magazine)

  “‘There seems to have been a pivot from trying to get Facebook to adopt the IHRA, to Facebook looking at defining the word ‘Zionist’ — used in any critical sense — as indistinguishable from antisemitism,’ said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace [full disclosure: the foundation financially supports +972 Magazine]. ‘This may be based on a good faith concern, as there are certainly instances of antisemites using the terms ‘Jewish’ and ‘Zionist’ interchangeably,’ Friedman continued. ‘But of course, the issue there isn’t the word but the context. Given the pressure around IHRA, it’s not paranoid to be concerned that this focus on the word ‘Zionist’ is just a back door to get the same impact that you would get if Facebook adopted IHRA in terms of stigmatizing and deplatforming criticism of Israel.’”

• [Webinar] Israel & Palestine: Free Speech and the Right to Protest

  Featuring Dima Khalidi (Palestine Legal), Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center DC), and Hadar Susskind (Americans for Peace Now). In this session we examine current attempts to curtail criticism of Israel/Zionism or…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: March 5, 2021

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plug: ICYMI: On 3/2, FMEP held an amazing webinar: “Til Kingdom…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: February 19, 2021

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plug: New FMEP Webinar – Feb 19, 2pm – “The IHRA…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: February 12, 2021

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Senate Budget Resolution 3. On the Record First things first: Section 3 of this report includes articles about the…

• Occupied Thoughts: Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes with Peter Beinart

  Occupied Thoughts: Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes with Peter Beinart Listen to the podcast here: Occupied Thoughts by FMEP · Occupied Thoughts: Former…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: February 5, 2021

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Senate Budget Resolution Amendment-Palooza 3. On the Record Shameless plugs New FMEP Webinar – Feb 11 – ” The IHRA…

• Canada Talks Israel Palestine: Interview with Lara Friedman

  Canada Talks Israel Palestine:  US Thinktank Makes Excellent Webinars and Research Freely Accessible to Canadians Online “Until now, it has been difficult (and expensive) for…

• The Verge: Facebook is getting pulled into a fight about the politics of Israel

  “’Facebook’s updates to its hate speech policy haven’t satisfied its IHRA-focused critics, whose goal isn’t to get Facebook to deplatform antisemitism,’ wrote Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, in the wake of the August letter, ‘but to get Facebook to deplatform criticism of Israel.'”