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.
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 mobilized opposition to the confirmation
of Kenneth Marcus as Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights in the Department of Education over concerns that he would use his position to suppress
free speech and intervene in curricula on college campuses. To our dismay, following his narrow confirmation by
the Senate, Marcus has done exactly that. In the latest instance, the Department of Education
ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop a plan for remaking
their joint Middle East studies program in order to continue receiving federal funding. Among the alleged problems
raised was “a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding the positive aspects of Islam” in programming for
elementary and secondary school teachers and a lack of “similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity,
Judaism, or any other religion of belief system in the Middle East.”
Americans for Peace Now signed on to a letter sent by T'ruah, The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, to Israel's High Court of Justice ahead of the Court's hearing of Human Rights Watch's Omar Shakir against the government of Israel's decision to deport him from Israel:
24 September 2019
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Clerk, Idit Malul
Supreme Court Justices and Registrars
Sha’arei Mishpat St
Jerusalem 9195001 Israel
Dear Ms. Malul,
We write on behalf of five American Jewish organizations in support of Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch. We call on the Israeli government to cease its efforts to deport Shakir and on the Israeli Supreme Court to reverse the lower court ruling that upheld the deportation.
This episode of APN's podcast features a presentation that Nizar
Farsakh and Ori Nir gave at Ithaca College on September 17th. The talk was an attempt to make the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict more accessible to young people by weaving personal narratives of an
Israeli-American and a Palestinian-American into the collective national narratives of Israelis and
Palestinians.
On September 17th, Ori Nir participated in two
special events at Cornell University and Ithaca College together with Nizar Farsakh, the chair of the Board of
the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington DC.
Farsakh is the former General Director of the PLO Delegation in Washington DC, and a former adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and to former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
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.
Debra Shushan, APN Policy and Government Releations Director, appeared on CGTN on Thursday, September 19 to provide analysis on the results of the Israeli election.
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.
