Honor List
Congressman Paul Findley published a book in the 1970s called "They Dare to Speak Out". He listed many examples of courageous individuals who speak truth to power with regard to US policy in the Middle East. Speaking out against Israeli occupation, oppression, and apartheid is not cost free but the reward of being able to live with one's conscience is priceless. This list is just a sampling of names of people we consider with honor for heir honest and truthful stand for peace with justice:
Examples of Individuals with good work for peace with justice (please send names of/info on others you think should be listed to qumsi001 at hotmail dot com )
Avigail Abarbanel
Shaden Abu Hijleh (deceased)
Asaad Abukhalil
Susan Abulhawa
Ibrahim Abu Lughod (deceased)
Salman Abu Sitta
Sami AlArian
Ammiel Alcalay
Muhammad AlHindi (deceased)
Shulamit Aloni
Dunya Alwan
Khalil Al Wazir (Abu Jihad) (deceased)
Hannah Arendt
Naseer Aruri
David Ash
Hanan Ashrawi
Issa Atallah (deceased)
Naim Ateek
Gilad Atzmon
Sami Awad
Mona Baker
Mohammad Bakri
Paul Balles
Anna Baltzer
Iris Bar
Daniel Barenboim
Roseanne Barr
Johnny Barber
Ramzy Baroud
Joel Beinin
Oren Ben-Dor
Folke Bernadotte (deceased)
In his capacity as leader of the Swedish Red Cross, Count Folke Bernadotte saved tens of thousands of Jews from Germany. Yet, a Zionist terrorist group (called Lohamei Herut Yisrael by its members, better known as the Stern Gang after its founder) assassinated him in Jerusalem in 1948 because he spoke also for the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands. Nathan Friedman-Yellin, a leaders of the organization that assassinated him was quickly released from prison and then elected to the Israeli parliament. Other Stern Gang members became prominent leaders (e.g. Menachem Begin became Israeli Prime Minister).
Jeffrey Blanckfort
David Bloom
Mark Braverman
Leslie Bravery
Lenni Brenner
Eitan Bronstein, founder of Zochrot http://zochrot.org
Chris Brown
Don Bryant, see Help Mai Al-Hamad as example of his work or google
Dan Burnstein
Umayyah Cable
Tanya Cariina Hsu
Silvia Cattori
Bernard Chazelle
Ira Chernus
Noah Cohen Writing on repression of activists
Juan Cole
Michel Collon
Medhat Credi
Richard Cross
Mahmoud Darwish
Uri Davis
Dan Drost
Zaher Ebrahim
Sibel Edmonds
Albert Einstein et al on Begin
Paul Eisen Writing on Speaking the truth to jews
Dr. Mona El-Farra
Laila M. El-Haddad
Out of the Ashes by Marc Ellis
Hedy Epstein
Seth Farber
Samih Farsoun
Bob Feldman
Norman Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Eileen Flemming
Dennis Fox
also http://www.dennisfox.net
Ron Fox
Hassan Fouda
see Jews of Conscience defend human rights activist
Seth Freedman
Mahatma Gandhi
see also Mahatma Ghandi
Khalil Gibran
Rachel Giora
Reverend David Good of the Old Lyme Congregational Church
Roberta Gould (Jewish Amerrican Poet)
Mark Glenn
Ran HaCohen
Jeff Halper, Founder of the Israel Committee Against Home Demolitions
David Halpin
Anis Hamadeh
Suhair Hammad
Ned Hanauer(deceased)
Yehudith Harel
Amira Hass (reporter for Haaretz)
"Haygazun" Armenian blogger
Stanley Heller, founder of the Middle East Crisis Committee
Harvey Herstein
Tom Hopkins
Rev. John Hubers
Faisal Husseini
Sam Husseini
Cliff Jackson
Dahr Jamail
Palden Jenkins
Ghassan Kanafani
Ronni Kassril
Iris Keltz
Martin Luther King Jr
George Kenney
Walid Khalidi
David Kirshbaum
also http://members.aol.com/savepalestine/index.htm
Naomi Klein
Joel Kovel
Victor Lama
Carlos Latuff
Shamai K. Leibowitz
Stephen Lendman
Gideon Levy (articles in Haaretz)
Alfred Lilienthal
Michael Lind
Abbie Lipschutz
Michael Lopez-Calderon
Henry Lowi
Barbara Lubin, founder of Middle East Children's Alliance
Sari Makdisi
J. Lorand Matory
Hannah Mermelstein
Salem Mikdadi
Board of Directors of the Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Understanding http://www.cjcmu.org/ His wife, Zena is the founder of the American Muslim Women's Association (AMWA)
Edward Miller
Melody Moezzi
Carol Moore
Richard Morris
Dorit Naaman
Susan Nathan
Michael Neumann
Marcy Newman
Martin J Nichols
Julio Noboa, San Antonio Express News
Mike Oxley d2007
Amy Pagnozzi Previously of the Hartford Courant
Ilan Pappe
http://www.ilanpappe.org/
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Anne Paquier
Miko Peled
http://www.nimn.org/Perspectives/international/000132.php?section=International%20Voices
http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/oct03_2.html
http://israelipalestinianpeace.org/issues/66toi.htm
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
John Pilger
Gideon Polya
Linda Ramsden, Director of ICAHD-UK
Jilian R. Redford
Tanya Reinhart(deceased)
Syndicated Columnist Charley Reese, retired from Orlando Sentinel
Philip Rizk
Egyptian German Film maker with excellent documentaries on Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance
Nir Rosen
Alice Rothchild
David Rovics
also http://www.songwritersnotebook.blogspot.com
Sara Roy
Prof. Edward Said (Died September 2003)
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/esaid.htm
http://fanonite.org/2007/04/05/remembring-edward-said/ Two interviews (videos)
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10284
Sol Salbe
Ralph Schoenman
Peter Schumann
Patrick Seale
Evelyn Segal
Shlomi Sendak
Israel Shahak
Read his books available everywhere
Hisham Sharabi
Cindy Sheehan
ELLEN SIEGEL
Siegel has worked with various Jewish peace groups and was a nurse at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon during the massacres in 1982. She said today: "Sharon was found indirectly responsible for the massacres by the Israeli Kahan Commission of Inquiry, which I testified before. His forces provided the flares, allowed the Phalangist forces (who -- totally predictably -- conducted the butchery) in and prevented the Palestinian civilians from escaping. These were crimes against humanity; people of conscience can't say that's not directly responsible.... In the summer of 1982, Sharon laid siege to the people of Beirut; he's applying the same methodology to the Palestinians under occupation today. He's building trenches around these Palestinian areas so that people can't get in or out." http://www.adc.org/press/1999/16sept99.htm
Rich Siegel
Richard Silverstein
Stephen Sizer
Daniel Smith
Scott Sorrell
Mary Sparrowdancer
Gideon Spiro
Harvey Stein
I F Stone (Isadore Feinstein Stone), famed Jewish American journalist wrote a lengthy article in 1967 after the latest Israel victory and conquest of Arab lands. It is worth reading nearly 40 years later. Excerpts: "There is a good deal of simplistic sophistry in the Zionist case. The whole earth would have to be reshuffled if claims 2,000 years old to irredenta were suddenly to be allowed. Zionism from its beginning tried to gain its aims by offering to serve as outpost in the Arab world for one of the great empires. Herzl sought to win first the Sultan and then the Kaiser by such arguments. Considerations of imperial strategy finally won the Balfour Declaration from Britain....THE MYTH that the Arab refugees fled because the Arab radios urged them to do so was analyzed by Erskine B. Childers in the London Spectator May 12, 1961. An examination of British and US radio monitoring records turned up no such appeals; on the contrary there were appeals and "even orders to the civilians of Palestine, to stay put...In the outside world the welfare of Jewry depends on the maintenance of secular, non-racial, pluralistic societies. In Israel, Jewry finds itself defending a society in which mixed marriages cannot be legalized, in which non-Jews have a lesser status than Jews, and in which the ideal is racial and exclusionist. Jews must fight elsewhere for their very security and existenceagainst principles and practices they find themselves defending in Israel....It must also be recognized, despite Zionist ideology, that the periods of greatest Jewish creative accomplishment have been associated with pluralistic civilizations in their time of expansion and tolerance: in the Hellenistic period, in the Arab civilization of North Africa and Spain, and in Western Europe and America. Universal values can only be the fruit of a universal vision; the greatness of the Prophets lay in their overcoming of ethnocentricity. A Lilliputian nationalism cannot distill truths for allmankind. " http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/holy_war_stone.html
(received from Tim Murphy via NY Transfer)
Judith Stone
Ken Stone
Dave Stratman
Cecilie Surasky
Gila Svirsky
Helen Thomas, longtime white house correspondent
Sandy Tolan
Marianne Torres and Michael Poulin
Shelby Tucker
Shimon Tzabar
Benny Tziper
Desmond Tutu
http://www.boston.com/news /globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/26/realizing_gods_dream_for
Dries Van Agt
Previous Dutch Prime Minister
Moredechai Vanunu
On April 30, 2007 Mordecahi Vanunu was convicted on 14 out of 21 counts of violating a court order which denied his his right to speak to foreign journalists in 2004 after his release from 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth that Israel was already nuclear in 1986. His appeal will be heard November 13, 2007 fighting a six-month jail sentence. After WW II, Attorney Yaccov Shapiro, who later became Israel's Minister Of Justice, described the Emergency Defense Regulations which has been used to deny Mordechai Vanunu the inalienable right of freedom of speech and movement as "unparalleled in any civilized country: there were no such laws in Nazi Germany."(Naeem Ateek, Justice and Only Justice p.34). 13 Minutes with Vanunu" Jan. 2008
streaming video
After a year and a half long FREEDOM of Speech trial in Jerusalem, on July 2, 2007, an Israeli court sentenced the whistle blower of Israel's WMD program, Mordechai Vanunu, to six more months in jail for violating a ban imposed on him in 2004. Since his release from Ashkelon Prison on April 21, 2004, Israel has denied him the right to leave the state and has forbidden him to speak to foreigners. Two days before President Bush's first trip to Israel Palestine and a day before Vanunu's appeal was to begin, Israel sentenced him to community service instead.
Tom Wallace
Jim Wallis
Dr. Dalia Wasfi
Philip Weiss
Eyal Weizman
Andrew Winkler
Ora Wise
Ann Wright
Darrell & Sue Yeaney (founders of Congressional Accompaniment Project)
http://www.middleeastawareness.org
Sowwan wa Sabr Inspirational Palestinian Stories
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