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How Has America Responded to Amnesty's Apartheid Report?

In February this year, Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights organization, issued a damning report titled “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity.”  This was preceded by two similar characterizations of Israel’s “crimes of apartheid” made last year by Human Rights Watch and Israel’s own leading human rights organization, B’Tselem.
How have America’s political class, civil society, Arab and Jewish American organizations reacted?  Find out at our conversation with Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the role of the U.S. Congress.

A Conversation with Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP).