Summary
Al-Shabaka’s Associate Fellow, based in New York, and the author of the December 13, 2022 policy brief Challenging Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US (Challenging Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US, lines 133-135, 249-251).
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The biography printed with the brief: he is Al-Shabaka’s Associate Fellow, based in New York, and co-host of Al-Shabaka’s Policy Lab series; he holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University; his research and writing have covered the role of open-source intelligence in exposing Israel’s war crimes and analysis of Palestinian liberation tactics; his writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy and The Nation; and he serves as Associate Director of Editorial for the Institute for Middle East Understanding (lines 249-251).
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In the brief he argues that US anti-boycott legislation shields Israel from accountability at the cost of First Amendment rights, and that US citizens should defend the right to boycott through Congress, organizing, unions and public campaigns rather than relying on the judiciary alone (lines 141-159, 227-237).
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In the April 15, 2025 policy brief Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US he argues that Project Esther reframes the Palestine solidarity movement as a “Hamas Support Network” to dismantle it through financial depletion, lawfare and reputational damage, and recommends movement resilience, anti-SLAPP defenses and diversified funding (Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US, lines 141-159, 213-227, 265-293). The biography printed with the brief is the same as in 2022 (lines 305-307).
Related pages
Challenging Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US, Al-Shabaka, Anti-boycott legislation, Columbia University