Thirty-nine years ago, on February 10th 1983, Peace Now activist Emil Grunzweig was murdered by an extreme right Jewish terrorist at a Peace Now demonstration in Jerusalem.

Not far from the Prime Minister’s Office, the terrorist, Yona Avrushmi, lobbed a hand grenade at the front row of the Peace Now marchers. It killed Emil and injured nine of his friends.

It was the first in a series of terrorist attacks by extremist right-wing Israelis against Israel’s peace camp. The Israeli right’s campaign to crush peace efforts culminated with the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin twelve years later.

In court, Avrushmi said that he was influenced by the right’s incitement against Peace Now, just as Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin, was influenced by the extreme right’s inciting statements and religious edicts.

APN is proud to support this letter urging the Biden administration to finalize a restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Diplomacy must always be our first recourse and, as momentum builds around negotiations in Vienna, it is clear that the JCPOA remains overwhelmingly in the US interest.

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.

Washington, DC – Amnesty International is today publishing a damning report on Israel's violation of the human and civil rights of Palestinians in the territories Israel occupied in 1967, and of Israel's Palestinian citizens.

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.

Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) is joined by eight additional Jewish organizations in opposing the establishment the new Congressional Caucus for the Advancement of Torah Values.

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.

Americans for Peace Now (APN) urges the Biden administration to demand determined Israeli action to confront West Bank settler violence.

Violent settlers emerged today from an illegal outpost near Nablus and attacked a group of Israeli peace activists who were helping Palestinian villagers plant olive trees. Video recording of the attack is horrific. It shows young men armed with clubs brutally hitting defenseless solidarity activists and torching their car. Four of the activists needed medical treatment, two of them with head injuries.