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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

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Recording- Netanyahu’s Government and the Occupation with Lior Amihai

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Statement: APN Condemns Outrageous Smotrich Comments

Americans for Peace Now (APN) strongly condemns comments by Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who in a speech in France absurdly asserted that “there’s no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as a Palestinian people.” APN calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn Smotrich’s outrageous statement and urges the Biden administration to do the same.

Smotrich said that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people, Palestinian culture or Palestinian history, and added that this “truth” should be heard “at the Elysee Palace and the White House." To make things worse, Smotrich’s lectern carried a schematic map of so-called “Greater Israel,” which included the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Smotrich’s speech triggered justifiable fury among both Palestinians and Jordanians, including a statement by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, noting that the map constitutes a violation of Jordan’s US-brokered peace agreement with Israel.

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Legislative Round-Up- March 17, 2023

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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

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Protest Photos- No To Smotrich, No To Hate (March 12, 2023)

Photos by Gili Getz:

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Protest Recap: Leading the Charge

Dear Friend,

Last night we represented Americans for Peace Now at a large demonstration outside the Grand Hyatt in downtown Washington DC, where Bezalel Smotrich, the racist, ultra-nationalist Israeli minister, was the keynote speaker at an Israel Bonds gathering.

The protest, together with our Progressive Israel Network (PIN) partners and with an organization of Israeli expatriates, attracted some 500 people. We waved our Shalom flags and Israel flags, in solidarity of the protest movement in Israel, as well as signs condemning Smotrich for his extremist policies and statements, including his call to “wipe out” an entire West Bank Palestinian village. The large crowd chanted in support of democracy and peace in both English and Hebrew. 

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Legislative Round-Up- March 13, 2023

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Israel’s Ugly ‘Judicial Revolution’ (Hard Questions, Tough Answers- March 13, 2023)

Israel’s Ugly ‘Judicial Revolution’: the Existential and the Just Plain Disgusting

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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

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Statement- Smotrich's Hatred Is Not Welcome Here

In the past week, over 2300 Americans signed Americans for Peace Now’s petition to President Biden urging him to deny entrance to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Despite vocal opposition, it appears that Smotrich will be allowed to proceed with his upcoming travel plans. It is disappointing that Minister Smotrich’s remarks calling for the Israeli government to “wipe out” the West Bank village of Huwara in the wake of the settler-led pogrom on the village on February 26th have not precluded him from entrance into the United States.

In the aftermath of violence like this, it is incumbent on political leaders to call for calm and to do everything in their power to ease the tensions. Instead, Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the civilian governor of the West Bank whose openly pro-annexation agenda has emboldened the most extreme sectors of the Israeli settler movement, called for the Israeli government to commit a war crime. This type of rhetoric doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Tragically, we have seen far too many times where incitement like this leads to violence. Just days ago, a group of young settlers raided Huwara again, attacking Palestinians and their property.

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