Getting the information into the Rantburg archives for the next time they pop up on our horizon. [IsraelTimes] Leaders of the two small but well-known organizations say combined resources will strengthen the initiatives each has been dedicated to as they worked toward similar goals
Americans for Peace Now stopped travelling to Israel almost a decade ago for fear members would be denied entry because they’ve been vocally supporting BDS efforts, which should be interesting because Ameinu — which succeeded the Labor Zionist Alliance in 2004 — has long been active in anti-BDS education on the left. Two decades-old left-wing pro-Israel groups, Americans for Peace Now (APN) and Ameinu, are poised to merge — a consolidation of voices in the liberal Zionist camp amid Israel’s war with Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
The presidents of the two small nonprofits — Americans for Peace Now’s Hadar Susskind and Ameinu’s Ken Bob — told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in separate interviews that the merger, to be announced Thursday, made sense because the groups complemented one another: APN works advocacy in Washington and maintains ties with the Israeli peace movement, while Ameinu, Hebrew for "our people," liaises with the broader left in the United States and engages more closely with national Jewish groups.
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