@LaraFriedmanDC

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President, Foundation for Middle East Peace (Washington, DC)
“Come for the adorable Rottweiler pix, stay for Palestine news & voices!” (Or vice versa). I mute trolls.
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For Palestinians in Gaza who survived 470 days of genocide, ceasefire means “return” to:

>homes/infrastructure/agriculture/commerce/hospitals/schools/places of worship deliberately destroyed by Israel
>rubble trapping remains of family
>UXO everywhere
>environmental catastrophe

Living Memory: Palestinian Artists Mark 75 Years of the Nakba — a joint project of the Foundation for Middle East Peace & Project48

https://fmep.org/resource/nakba-75-palestinian-artists-speak/

Living Memory: Palestinian Artists Mark 75 Years of the Nakba

FMEP & Project48 proudly present a very special podcast commemorating 75 years of the Palestinian Nakba. We are honored to share the voices of 10…

Foundation for Middle East Peace
The Dude made a new friend this weekend! The very sweet Apple was a lovely & enthusiastic host!
New episode of the Occupied Thoughts podcast: today I had the honor of hosting the UN's Francesca Albanese for a deep dive into "A War Crime in the Making" - intl law & the ongoing/looming ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills
https://fmep.org/resource/a-war-crime-in-the-making-the-uns-francesca-albanese-on-ethnic-cleansing-in-the-south-hebron-hills/
A War Crime in the Making: the UN’s Francesca Albanese on Ethnic Cleansing in the South Hebron Hills

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks to Francesca Albanese — international legal expert and the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation…

Foundation for Middle East Peace
Ben-Gvir flag ban: A symptom of Israel’s settler colonialism

Ben Gvir’s ban of the Palestinian flag is the latest attempt to repress Palestinians, but it is nothing new for Israel. Until the settler colonial system is uprooted in its entirety, such attacks will certainly continue, writes Dana El Kurd.

The New Arab
80,000 people turned out in Tel Aviv tonight to protest the new Israeli government. If Americans did the same, they would be deemed antisemites by the Anti-Defamation League.

Next time someone tells you about the dangerous surge of antisemitism on campus, send them this new ADL resource which — no doubt inadvertently — confirms that ***virtually all of this alleged campus “antisemitism” boils down to criticism of Israel/Zionism, expressions of Palestinian narratives, & defense of Palestinian rights***

https://twitter.com/jgreenblattadl/status/1613194499538264064

Jonathan Greenblatt on Twitter

“Anti-Zionism is not simply an abstract idea; it's a hateful ideological campaign with real-world consequences, & its trying to infiltrate college campuses. @ADL's #ThinkPlanAct resource helps students identify & respond to anti-Israel bias & antisemitism. https://t.co/DF8glK1l4o”

Twitter
This is only one example. The new @ADL report is a massive exercise in erasing the distinction between #Antisemitism and not just anti-Zionism but any criticism of #Israel at all.
That they do this when, by their own words, real antisemitism is surging is shameful and dangerous.

Adalah: New Israeli Government’s Policy Guidelines Indicate Officials’ Intent to Commit Crimes under Intl. Law

In a new position paper, Adalah lays out how the guiding principles and coalition agreements of the new Israeli government intend to deepen Jewish supremacy and racial segregation as the underlying principles of the Israeli regime.

https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/10770

Adalah: New Israeli Government’s Policy Guidelines Indicate Officials’ Intent to Commit - Adalah

Today, 10 January 2022, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, published a position paper on the legal implications of the guiding principles and coalition agreements of the 37th Israeli government, which was sworn in on 29 December 2022. The position paper analyzes the...