Institute for Middle East Understanding

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a

non-profit

advocacy organization.

Started in 2005, In 2006 it received a grant from

arts, literature, academia, business and community service, which were then disseminated to news media and on the Internet.^[2]

The Anti-Defamation League has called IMEU a "pro-Palestinian Group".

As an example, the IMEU sent a letter to news outlets in November 2007 that provided the names and profiles of Palestinian-Americans who could be contacted to discuss the upcoming

Terje Roed-Larson, and Nadia Hijab, a Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Palestine Studies.^[4]

One of the organization's co-founders is Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who is also a member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Seattle chapter. As Secretary and Treasurer of the IMEU, she and the organization were featured in the Non-Profit Spotlight of the e-magazine The Mideast Connect.^[5] The IMEU also publishes 'Letters from Palestine' (2006),^[6] which were cited as a good resource for first-hand testimonies from Palestinians about their daily lives by Deborah Pike in the Borderlands journal.^[7]

References

^ Los Angeles Times (28 April 2014). "Kerry draws fire for reported comment about 'apartheid' and Israel". Los Angeles Times.
^ "Past Humanitarian Grant Recipients: 2006 Grantees". Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
^ "Samar Assad | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
^ "Unmasking Israel's Intentions at Annapolis". Booman Tribune. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
^ Interview by Ani Zakarian and Kaiser Shahid (2006-07-10). "The Non-Profit Spotlight". Retrieved 2008-03-16.
^ "Letters from Palestine". Encompass. 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
^ Deborah Pike (2006). "Sharon's Wall and the Dialectics of Inside/Outside". 5 (3). Borderlands. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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