Authors / Lara Friedman

Lara Friedman is the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents.

Analysis
Israel-Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Label Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech
Pressuring social media platforms to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism is the latest strategy to silence critics of Israel.
Lara Friedman August 19, 2020

Analysis
States Are Moving to Class Criticism of Israel as Antisemitism
Bills making their way through the Arizona and Iowa legislatures would codify the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism into hate crime and civil rights law.
Lara Friedman February 20, 2020