Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the swearing in of a new Palestinian Authority government, headed by current Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and comprised of apolitical technocrats.
--Number of Palestinians in Israeli jails who will be joining the 240 prisoners already on hunger-strike. **
Haaretz - May 28, 2014
APN's Ori Nir: American Jews are running out of patience with Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.595852
The Forward - May 29, 2014
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer quoted in APN Board Member Leonard Fein's profile of Dani
Dayan
http://forward.com/articles/199134/the-deceptive-style-of-settlement-leader-dani-daya/?
The Forward - May 30, 2014
APN spokesperson quoted in story on US Jewish peace groups
http://forward.com/articles/199129/american-dovish-groups-facing-grim-new-reality-aft/
--Dr. Elihu Richter, an Israeli professor who tried to visit the six Christian Iranian-British and Iraqi-British delegates Israel incarcerated at Ben-Gurion airport in 'intolerable conditions.'**
--Ori Nir, Spokesman of Americans for Peace Now, explains the dynamics behind Israel's loss of support from pro-Israel US opinion leaders, primarily progressive American Jews."**
While Israeli politicians flip the finger at the world to score points with right-wing voters at home, they are alienating Israel’s most important, loyal allies: Progressive U.S. Jews.
Lately, American friends are asking me whether Israeli leaders are thinking straight, whether they realize how unreasonable their statements sound here in Washington, and how odd some of their policies seem.
Marc Fisher / The Washington Post (May 28, 2014)
Discusses the difficulties that Jewish organizations face in affiliating with individuals or organizations that
question or debate actions taken by Israel.
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--Haaretz+ commentator Zvi Barel raises Israel's dilemma following the victory of extreme right-wing parties in the European Parliament elections, but also says there are 'benefits' to European anti-Semitism.**
Nir Hasson / Haaretz (May 27, 2014)
An Israeli firm has been working for 10 years to perfect plans that would transform the city's 'natural' urban
boundaries into a border between two future countries, in a nonthreatening and aesthetic manner. Read more >
The holiday of Shavuot, which begins the night of Tuesday, June 3rd, and continues through Thursday, celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot completes the cycle that celebrates the origin of the Jews as a people, starting with Passover. The holiday of Shavuot, once an agricultural festival, has come to represent the importance of the Torah, and our understanding that freedom is not complete until there is rule of law to guide us.