Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived.

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings & Markups
3. On the Record

PeaceCast

APN’s show on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and efforts to resolve it.

PeaceCast is a podcast produced in Washington by Americans for Peace Now, the sister-organization of Israel’s preeminent peace movement, exploring issues and trends relating to peace and security for Israel, focusing on Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians and efforts to resolve it. If you care about Israel, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, about Israel’s future as a democracy and a Jewish state, this podcast is for you. Episodes feature experts, activists, advocates and scholars whose work or passion is Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) is excited to announce the hiring of two new staff members, Madeleine Cereghino our new Director of Government Relations, and Claire Davidson Miller our new Strategic Communications and Development Associate.

Fifty-four years ago this week, the unthinkable happened: Israel defeated Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian forces in the Six-Day War, tripling its geographic footprint in less than a week. For Jews, this was unimaginably good news: Jerusalem was won, the Western Wall was liberated, and the myriad of Biblical sites in the West Bank were open to Jewish visitors. As Jewish Israelis flocked to heritage sites long yearned-for, Palestinians continued to lose their own. The West Bank was now under Israeli military occupation, an occupation that has since come to feel indefinite.

It is easy to lose hope fighting to end an occupation that feels never-ending, but in the past days and weeks, as we have prepared to mark the anniversary of the Six-Day War, we have seen another seismic shift in the Israeli political sphere. After twelve consecutive (and fifteen total) years as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on his way out of office.

Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the announcement of a new governing coalition in Israel.

Americans for Peace Now (APN) congratulates Isaac Herzog, who was elected today to become Israel's 11th president, and urges him to use his position to advance the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The American organization Musicians for the Greater Good held a virtual peace concert on May 30th to honor the work of Israel's Peace Now movement and its US sister organization, Americans for Peace Now.

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.

 Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived.

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings & Markups
3. On the Record

Shameless plugs:

Over the past two weeks FMEP produced a number of fantastic podcasts featuring Palestinian perspectives – from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and inside the Green Line – on current events. These include:

• 5/23: “Palestinians Rising: From Jerusalem to Umm al-Fahm“, ft. Fayrouz Sharqawi of Grassroots Al-Quds
• 5/20: “More than History: 1917, 1936, & 2021,“ ft. Sherene Seikaly,  Assoc. Prof. of History at the UCSB
• 5/20: “Palestinians Strike,“ ft. Salem Barahmeh, ED of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)
• 5/18: “Decolonizing the Narrative,” ft. Nooran Alhamdan (MEI)
• 5/18: “One people, one pain,” ft. Widad Assaf, Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF)
• 5/16: “On the Organized Violence against Palestinian Citizens of Israel,“ ft. Sawsan Zaher, Adalah
• 5/13: “The Nakba & the Current Crisis”, ft. Dr. Carol Daniel Kasbari (MEI)