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APN's mission is to educate and persuade the American public and its leadership to support and adopt policies that will lead to comprehensive, durable, Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace, based on a two-state solution, guaranteeing both peoples security, and consistent with U.S. national interests.

Credit:  Journal File Photo On May 30, a group of Muslim community members and members of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) attended a closed Zoom meeting with Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen.  The meeting’s purpose was to allow community members to express their views on Palestine and the Canadian government’s lack of response to the recent escalated violence between Israel and Palestine. The first speaker’s concern was directed towards the apparent lack of public messaging on...

More American Jews are asserting that support for Palestinians is not incongruous with embracing a Jewish identity.

Boycotts and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid The comparison rankles supporters of Israel, but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa By Chris McGreal / The Guardian Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968, when then-South African prime minister John Vorster banned a tour by the England cricket te...

© Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images Pro-Palestinian supporters hold placards reading ‘Boycott Apartheid Israel’ during a protest to condemn the ongoing Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Durban, South Africa, this week. Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968 when their prime minister, BJ Vorster, banned a tour by the England cricket team because it included a mixed-race player, Basil DOlive...

The comparison rankles supporters of Israel but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa

Prof. David Miller from Bristol University, a champion of the drop the IHRA definitions movement. A grassroots campaign is on the way to drop the IHRA Definition of anti-Semitism, which includes references to Israel in an anti-Semitic context, at the coming Labour party’s annual party conference in Brighton, Sept. 25-29, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday (Labour grassroots campaign to jettison IHRA definition of anti-Semitism). Hard-left websites have been urging Labour constituents ...

LABOUR activists will debate a campaign of direct action against Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership at an “emergency fightback meeting” tomorrow. The virtual meeting of the Labour In Exile Network (LIEN) will consider pickets of MPs, marches, and protests outside Labour offices around the country. LIEN was set up late last year following the suspension of more than 70 local Labour Party officers for allowing discussions of motions criticising the withdrawal of the whip from former leader Jere...

THE publication of the EHRC report on “anti-semitism in the Labour Party” was a seismic event in the history of the party. Despite its undoubted political impact, it contributed little to anyone’s understanding of how the party works, how anti-semitism manifests itself in contemporary Britain or how to combat it or any other form of identity-based hatred. Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) published a series of commentaries on the shortcomings of the report but also promised an in-depth apprai...

Dave Rich is Head of Policy at the Community Security Trust. He argues that Derek Penslar’s criticisms of the IHRA are based on a series of mistaken assumptions about the document. Why did academics sign the Jerusalem Declaration? Derek Penslar tried to explain his preference for the Jerusalem Declaration over the IHRA definition in a recent Fathomarticle, and in doing so he repeated many of mistaken assumptions people make about what the IHRA definition says, while also revealing the intr...