APN's Rabbi Alana Suskin and her co-panelist Dov Waxman speak at Open Hillel's teach-in about the Jewish tradition of dissent and the changing views of Israel as regards the occupation among American Jews
"You don't support countries by enabling behavior that will harm them." -@RabbiSuskin #OpenFederations #JFNAGA
— Open Hillel (@OpenHillelNow) November 8,
2015
Barbara Green has been a volunteer for Americans for Peace Now for many years. She lives in
Washington, DC.
If we look to the Torah for lessons in how we are to live our lives today, we're hard-pressed to find it in Vayeitze. Rather this is a series of lessons in duplicity, trickery, bad faith between kinsmen, and ultimately the creation of a physical boundary between them which neither is ever again to cross. Laban tricks Jacob, Rachel tricks Laban, Jacob tricks Laban. In the end the 'heroes-heroines," our ancestors, narrowly escape with their lives and flocks intact.
Speaking at Washington’s Center for American Progress, Prime Minister Netanyahu was asked
about his government’s West Bank settlement construction policies. His replies were littered with falsehoods
and misrepresentations.
Here are the facts:
Americans for Peace Now joins its Israeli sister-organization Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) in welcoming the European Union’s new guidelines for labeling products made in West Bank settlements.
Washington, DC - Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister-organization Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) in welcoming the European Union’s new guidelines for labeling products made in West Bank settlements.
The absurd notion that, during his current trip to the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now signed on to a two-state solution after only eight months ago saying that he would never allow a Palestinian state to emerge is material for George Orwell’s book, 1984.
The recent outbreak of violence in the streets of Israel and Palestine is a wake-up call to all those who seek peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The United States holds a key to bringing the violence to an end and putting the parties on the road to realizing, what the U.S. and virtually every other nation in the world has called for, the implementation of two states, Israel and Palestine. We call on President Obama to act now and recognize the state of Palestine, a process started by Republican President George W. Bush. This single act is urgently needed in order to provide the next U.S. president with a platform that places both Israel and Palestine on equal footing, at least in terms of formal U.S. recognition.
APN Board Member Geoffrey Lewis: President Obama, recognize Palestine now! (The Hill, 11/11/2015) http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/259747-president-obama-recognize-palestine-now
Jim Lobe re-posts APN's fact-checking of Netanyahu's statements regarding West Bank settlements in his CAP
interview (LobeLog, 11/13/2015) https://lobelog.com/netanyahus-perfidious-performance-at-cap/
Peace Now used as source in AP story on the growth of Israeli settlements over the years (AP,
11/11/2015)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-look-at-the-growth-of-israeli-settlements-over-the-years/2015/11/11/882bd92c-88ae-11e5-bd91-d385b244482f_story.html
Peace Now welcomes EU's West Bank settlement labeling decision (New York Times, 11/11/2015)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/world/middleeast/eu-labels-israeli-settlements.html?_r=0
Peace Now welcomes EU's labeling of West Bank settlement products (Times of Israel, 11/11/2015)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-eu-should-be-ashamed-of-itself-for-settlement-labeling/
Peace Now welcomes EU's labeling of West Bank settlement products (Globe and Mail Canada,
11/11/2015)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/eu-moves-ahead-with-labeling-goods-made-in-israeli-settlements/article27212676/
Peace Now welcomes EU decision on labeling West Bank settlement products (Bloomberg, 11/11/2015)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-11/eu-proposes-labeling-israeli-imports-produced-in-settlements
Peter Beinart quotes APN's Lara Friedman re
Netanyahu's settlement record (Haaretz, 11/11/2015)
EU Move Inspires Scorn From Jewish Groups, Praise
From Rights Groups (JTA, 11/11/2015)
APN's Lara Friedman
quoted on Obama's policy options on Israel-Palestine (LobeLog, 11/10/2015)
Peace Now's Hagit Ofran: New
planned settlement construction consistent with Netanyahu's vision of perpetual occupation (Vice News,
11/9/2015)
APN's Ori Nir quoted in Trudy Rubin's column regarding mainstreaming of extremist views in Israeli
society (Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/8/2015)
