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From the blog of Zak Witus at The Times of Israel

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.

Feb. 23, 2021 Palestinian law student Sami Huraini can be found every Friday at Kiryat Arba police station. The 23-year-old activist’s bail conditions stipulate that he must appear here weekly, in the Israeli settlement abutting Hebron, from 8:30 A.M. until 3 P.M. Usually at this time, Huraini would be attending the weekly after-prayer demonstration in or near his West Bank village of At-Tuwani, protesting the occupation and a spike in home demolitions by Israeli military authorities in this ...

Issa Amro at J Street conference, October 2019, Washington convention center. Issa Amro is an anti-apartheid activist in the occupied city of Hebron in Palestine who is dedicated to nonviolence, though he has been arrested by the Israeli military more times than he can remember. “I was arrested, detained, attacked many times… I used to be detained and arrested around 25 times a year,” he says. Last month Amro was convicted in an Israeli military court on six trumped-up charges rela...