Americans for Peace Now thanks Rep. Ted Deutch, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, for prioritizing a groundbreaking hearing on People-to-people Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding programs.
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FY22 Defense Appropriations (House)
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More great FMEP programming:
- 6/29: FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast — Why Palestinians are Rising Up Against the Palestinian Authority, ft. Peter Beinart interviewing political organizer and activist Fadi Quran (this is a MUST-LISTEN podcast)
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More great FMEP programming over the past week:
- (6/22) Webinar – Challenging Israel’s Policy of Legalized Vengeance, ft. Jessica Montell (HaMoked)
- (6/21) Webinar – Palestinians, Israelis, 1948, & Now: On Researching, Teaching, and Asserting the Reality of the Nakba, ft. Leena Dallasheh, Shay Hazkani, Sherene Seikaly & Sarah Anne Minkin
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Targeting Ilhan Omar (still)
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Targeting Ilhan Omar (again)
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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)
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Shameless plugs:
- FMEP Podcast 5/13: The Nakba & the Current Crisis w/ Lara Friedman & Dr. Carol Daniel Kasbari
- FMEP Webinar 5/12: Top of Mind: Palestinian Analysts On Unfolding Scenes of Protest & Devastation, ft. Zaha Hassan (Carnegie Endowment for Peace), Nadia Hijab (Al Shabaka), Inès Abdel Razek (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy), in conversation with Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP)
- MEI/Project48 webinar (cosponsored by FMEP) 5/10: The Palestinian Nakba: What Happened in 1948 and Why It Still Matters, featuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Umar Al-Ghubari (Program director, Zochrot), Rashid Khalidi (Professor, Columbia University), Mohammed El-Kurd (Author and Poet), and Lubnah Shomali (Advocacy manager, BADIL), moderated by MEI’s Nooran Alhamdan & Khaled Elgindy
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.
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:
- This week: In the midst of the rapidly escalating situation in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah – where Palestinians are on the verge of being evicted from the homes and their protests are being met with ever-greater force by Israeli authorities and by settlers, on 5/6, FMEP held a webinar entitled, “Jerusalem on the Verge: Dispossession & Violence in Sheikh Jarrah.” Panelists were Aseel AlBajeh, a legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al Haq, and Budour Hassan,author and journalist, in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman (me). Video and resources shared during the webinar are here.
- Next week: On May 10th, FMEP is proud to cosponsor an online event – The Palestinian Nakba: What Happened in 1948 and Why It Still Matters, featuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Umar Al-Ghubari (Program director, Zochrot), Rashid Khalidi (Professor, Columbia University), Mohammed El-Kurd (Author and Poet), and Lubnah Shomali (Advocacy manager, BADIL). This event is organized/hosted by the Middle East Institute and Project48, and cosponsored by FMEP, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Institute for Palestine Studies. It will be moderated by MEI’s Nooran Alhamdan & Khaled Elgindy.
- Also next week: FMEP is hosting a webinar entitled, “The PLO & the Palestinian Diaspora: Reviving a Source of Power,” featuring the co-authors of a recent landmark report on this topic — Zaha Hassan (Carnegie Endowment for Peace), Nadia Hijab (Al Shabaka), and Inès Abdel Razek (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy) – in conversations with Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP)
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.