Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas, while recognizing that it will provide only a lull between flareups. Security and stability for Israelis and Palestinians depend on a political settlement for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
APN strongly condemns the barrage of some 700 rockets launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip at civilian communities in southern Israel. We stand with our Israeli brothers and sisters.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) mourns the passing of Franklin Fisher z"l, who was twice the chair
of its Board of Directors (1985-1989; 2006-2009) and a leading advocate for Jewish and progressive causes in the
United States and in Israel.
Go HERE for "American Jews, Don't Walk Away From Israel" by Debra Shushan, APN Director of Policy and Government Relations
In the coming months - and probably years - Americans will witness Israel sliding faster and deeper than ever before toward becoming an anti-democratic, intolerant, annexationist, jingoistic, fanatical, xenophobic state.
With the Trump administration’s almost unrestricted backing, Netanyahu’s new government will be much more predatory and defiant in its establishing facts on the ground that preclude a peace settlement with the Palestinians and undermine democracy.
Alarmed by Prime Minister Netanyahu's repeated statements of intent to annex Israeli West Bank settlements if elected for another term, Americans for Peace Now calls on all stakeholders to unequivocally reject Netanyahu's pledge and underscore its disastrous repercussions.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) in asserting that by vowing to annex the settlements, Netanyahu is threatening Israel's future as a democracy and a Jewish state. West Bank annexation will severely threaten Israel's national security. It is also a detrimental to US national security interests.
This year’s Purim Shpiel award for laughable, destructive diplomacy goes to Donald Trump and his trio
of Middle East “peace” envoys.
We deeply regret and are disappointed by a comment made on Wednesday by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), who was quoted as saying: “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
Americans for Peace Now (APN) calls upon fellow American
Jewish organizations to join it in condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's embrace of the
extremist right-wing political party Otzma Yehudit ("Jewish Power").
Americans for Peace Now (APN) strongly condemns the murder of a young Israeli woman, Ori Ansbacher (19), in Jerusalem last week by a Palestinian assailant, who has been arrested and who has reenacted the crime.
Seven years ago, Amos Oz stopped by APN’s Washington DC office to record this video.
It was a last-moment initiative. I scrambled to prepare our clunky recording equipment, and then rushed to
meet him at the elevator. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was. I’ve read all his books – some of them
twice – and have always admired him for his literary achievements and for his dedication to peace and
security for Israel.
Out of the elevator emerged a short, modest man, warm and upbeat.
As I attached the microphone to his jacket, I told him that his book A Tale of Love
and Darkness helped me better know my mother. She grew up in the same Jerusalem neighborhood as he
did, not far from his parents’ home, and shared many of the childhood experiences Oz describes in the
book. He saw how emotional I was. He placed his warm hand on my shoulder and said: “This makes me very
happy, your relationship with your mother.”
Americans for Peace Now (APN) sends its condolences to the Oz family and to the people of Israel,
who today lost Amos Oz, a literary giant, a beacon of morality and humanity, and a founder of Israel’s peace
movement.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) mourns the passing of Franklin Fisher z"l, who was twice the chair
of its Board of Directors (1985-1989; 2006-2009) and a leading advocate for Jewish and progressive causes in the
United States and in Israel.
