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• Settlement & Annexation Report: November 20, 2020

  Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement & Annexation Report. To subscribe to this report, please click here. November 20, 2020 Final Days of Trump Admin, Part…

• Weaponizing Anti-Semitism, State Department Delegitimizes Human Rights Groups

  “Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said that US officials were ‘weaponising’ anti-Semitism in a bid to repress human rights organisations critical of Israel. Friedman’s criticism focuses on the prevailing understanding of anti-Semitism adopted by both parties in the US, which was first defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The ‘working definition’, which Friedman says is politicised, states not only that anti-Semitism includes hostility towards Jews, but also ‘applying double standards” to Israel or requiring of Israel “behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.’”

• Weaponizing Anti-Semitism, State Department Delegitimizes Human Rights Groups

  Analysis by FMEP’s Lara Friedman, published at the American Prospect on November 12, 2020 Weaponizing Anti-Semitism, State Department Delegitimizes Human Rights Groups Authoritarian regimes and…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: October 23, 2020

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: September 25, 2020

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the…

• Redefining anti-Semitism on Facebook

  “Yet, the people behind this campaign are neither interested in irony nor in justice, and certainly not in justice for Palestinians. As Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace who wrote an expose on the Facebook campaign for Jewish Currents, has pointed out, their letter to the Board of Directors “’represents the latest front in the battle to use the IHRA definition to officially exclude criticism of Israel from the bounds of acceptable discourse’”.

• [Webinar] Social Media in the Crosshairs: The Effort to Redefine Antisemitism to Quash Criticism of Israel

  Co-sponsored by the Foundation for Middle East Peace and Jewish Currents Social Media in the Crosshairs:  The Effort to Redefine Antisemitism to Quash Criticism of…

• Social Media in the Crosshairs: The Effort to Redefine Antisemitism to Quash Criticism of Israel

  The Foundation for Middle East Peace and Jewish Currents invite you to attend Social Media in the Crosshairs:  The Effort to Redefine Antisemitism to Quash…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: August 21, 2020

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the…

• Israel-Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Label Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech

  Analysis by FMEP’s Lara Friedman, published at Jewish Currents on August 19, 2020 Israel-Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Label Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech…