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• 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.'”

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: January 22, 2021

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plugs On 1/21, FMEP hosted a webinar entitled, “Calling the Thing…

• [Webinar] Calling the Thing by its Proper Name: “Apartheid” Between the Jordan River & the Mediterranean Sea

  The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) invites you to attend Calling the Thing by its Proper Name: “Apartheid” Between the Jordan River & the…

• Calling the Thing by its Proper Name: “Apartheid” Between the Jordan River & the Mediterranean Sea

  The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) invites you to attend Calling the Thing by its Proper Name: “Apartheid” Between the Jordan River & the…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: December 18, 2020

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plugs: The IHRA Definition & the Fight Against Antisemitism: A Webinar…

• Occupied Thoughts: A Palestinian View on Antisemitism w/ Peter Beinart, Rashid Khalidi, & Nadia Abu El-Haj

  In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” host Peter Beinart is joined by Palestinian academics Rashid Khalidi and Nadia Abu El-Haj to discuss a recent statement…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up: December 11, 2020

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Of special note: On 12/9, during an appearance on the Mehdi Hasan…

• 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.’”