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AMP holds conferences and training sessions for coalition building and legislative advocacy, such as hosting annual Palestine Advocacy Days, that provide workshop panels and encourage attendees to meet with American
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as part of an interfaith delegation in 2017. In 2018, Israel officially barred members of AMP from entering Israel due to its support of the BDS movement, which calls for a global boycott of Israel.
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According to AMP director Kristin Szremski, the organization "typically ignores these smear campaigns because they're aimed, in part, to detract us from our work".
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AMP was founded in 2006 by Palestinian-American UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, who is also the co-founder of
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system to protect student civil liberties from efforts to censor Palestine-related activism.
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by encouraging attendees to lobby Congress. Later that month, AMP hosted a protest with
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celebration at the White House due to his support of Israel during the conflict.
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In 2017, JVP, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, the social justice movement
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Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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In July 2024, a federal judge ruled that AMP must provide documents to the
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advocacy and relief organizations in support of the Syrian resistance at
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AMP has organized several billboard and bus advertisement campaigns in
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A national board member of AMP was prevented from entering
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In December 2016, AMP hosted an event endorsed by 15 other
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calling on members of Congress to boycott the speech.
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Palestinian solidarity movement in the United States
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Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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