Americans for Peace Now (APN) opposes in the strongest terms the reintroduction of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act by Congressman Zeldin (R-NY).

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.

Together with several other anti-occupation Israeli organizations, Shalom Achshav is inviting activists to a day-long tour of downtown Hebron tomorrow, Friday, where they will examine the long-term toll that Baruch Goldstein’s massacre took on Hebron, 28 years later.

On February 25th 1994, the American-Israeli physician from the adjacent Kiryat Arba settlement entered the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshipers as they were praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque and wounding 125 others. The Brooklyn-born Goldstein chose to murder as many Palestinians as he could on Purim, a Jewish holiday of whimsy, masquerades and fun. Hebron settlers, since the 1970s, traditionally used Purim as an occasion to harass their Palestinian neighbors.

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) applauds House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the seven other members of the House of Representatives for visiting Israel and meeting with a broad range of Israelis and Palestinians.

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.

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.