Our Israeli Peace Now partners organized a demonstration at the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan to protest the dispossession of Palestinian families by extremist Jewish settlers. Peace Now activists demonstrated shoulder-to-shoulder with Silwan’s Palestinian residents, and then marched with them to join the weekly anti-Netanyahu demonstration opposite the Prime Minister’s residence in West Jerusalem’s Balfour Street.

This was a first.

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News Nosh 2.10.21

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday February 10, 2021

 

You Must Be Kidding: 
45.
—Percent of illegal settlement outposts erected in the Jordan Beqaa Valley of the West Bank that are in an Israeli military firing zone and to which the military turns a blind eye. However, soldiers prevent Palestinian shepherds from even letting their cattle graze in the firing zone.**

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The international Criminal Court (ICC) over the weekend ruled that it has jurisdiction over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip -- territories under Israeli occupation since 1967. This opens the path for the ICC to launch formal investigations against Israel and against Hamas for alleged war crimes.

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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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News Nosh 2.7.21

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday February 7, 2021

 

Quote of the day:
"In less than a year we have moved from a state of unprecedented American normalization of the settlements (remember Psagot Winery's "Pompeo" wine?) and almost annexation, to the possibility of investigating those involved in the settlement enterprise as war criminals."
--Yedioth analyst Shimrit Meir writes that the decision of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate Israel on war crimes for establishing settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories returns the Palestinian issue to the international and Israeli discourse, after years of it being marginalized.*

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Legislative Round-up: February 5, 2021

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Senate Budget Resolution Amendment-Palooza
3. On the Record

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. 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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The following Article was published in the London-based New Statesman on February 4th, 2021

How should US anti-Semitism be defined in the Biden era?

The US’s Jewish community is debating whether the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition should be enforced as government policy.

BY EMILY TAMKIN

“Do we need this definition?” Hadar Susskind, the president and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, put that question to me in response to a growing debate in the US over how the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) defines anti-Semitism.

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News Nosh 2.4.21

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday February 4, 2020

Quote of the day:

“We need a tourniquet and he offers us a band-aid with ‘Likud’ written on it.”
--Joint List Chairman, MK Ayman Odeh, called the plan that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presented yesterday to combat violence in the Arab sector an “election ploy on the backs of Arab murder victims."* 


Breaking News:
Lokman Slim, a prominent Hezbollah critic, was found shot dead in his car in southern Lebanon Thursday morning after going missing Wednesday. His telephone was found on the ground, but his ID and pistol were missing. (Also Yedioth Hebrew) It was the first such alleged killing of a leading anti-Hezbollah activist in years. On Wednesday, Hezbollah said it downed an Israeli drone that entered Lebanon using an anti-aircraft missile, but the IDF said the drone wasn’t downed, despite photos and locals saying they heard an explosion. Hours later, on Wednesday night, Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Syria near the Golan Heights border, Syrian state TV said. (VIDEO) Syria said it responded to 'an Israeli aggression.’ 

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News Nosh 2.3.21

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday February 3, 2020
 

Quotes of the day*:

“There was a rain of bullets. I thought that was it. All my dreams, everything I have done - it’s all over.”
—Dr. Mohammed Aramush, who was injured by gunfire in the shootout between police and criminals on his street in the Arab-Israeli town of Tamra. Aramush was in his yard when he was hit. His friend, nursing student Ahmed Hijazi, was killed.

“While it’s necessary for the police to enter Arab communities and actively deal with crime, they cannot turn these communities into the Wild West.”
—Haaretz Editorial after police killed Ahmed Hijazi.

“Instead of firing targeted fire, the police fired in all directions. There is no reason to shoot in this way. I do not hear of such incidents in Tel Aviv or Netanya. There are no police officers with M-16 (assault rifles) in Bnei Brak or any other (Jewish cities)."
—Ja’afar Farah, Director of the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Palestinian Citizens of Israel.

“Our public indeed demands a fight against criminals and the eradication of crime, but not to kill the best of our sons.”
—Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi. 

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Washington, DC -- Americans for Peace Now (APN) is disappointed at the Biden administration's support of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, as expressed yesterday by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kara McDonald.

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