Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-1919) was born in Bacau, Romania, and, at the age of six, was taken by his parents to Palestine. His father, Ephraim Fischel, was one of the founders of Zikhron Yaakov.
Aaronsohn studied in France and on his ...
Sarah Aaronsohn, a sister of Aaron Aaronsohn, was a member of NILI (Netzah Israel Lo Y'Shaker), the group that he and Avshalom Feinberg had created to supply intelligence to the British against the Ottoman Turks. In September 1917, a carr ...
Khairi Abaza is (2012) "a former senior official of Egypt's secular liberal Wafd party who is currently (2013) a "Senior Fellow" at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies".169555
FDD ...
Ziad K. Abdelnour is a New York based investment banker and financier. In 1997, he, along with 56 other Lebanese American activists, founded a right-wing pressure group called the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL).
...
James George Abourezk (b. 1931) represented South Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 1979 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973. Abourezk was the first Arab-American to serve in the U.S. Senate. He practices law in his home state.
While in the US Congress Abourezk was the target of the Israeli lobby which orchestrated smear campaigns, espionage, and even an assas ...
Kenneth S. Abramowitz is a New York businessman and partner in NGN Capital, which describes itself as "a venture capital firm dedicated to health-care investing."[1] He is a major funder for extreme right-wing causes in Israel and the United States.
Kenneth's wife is Nira Abramowitz, also funder and cheerl ...
Floyd Abrams: B.A., Cornell; J.D., Yale. Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Chair of several American Bar Association Committees on freedom of speech and of the press. Visiting lecturer, Yale Law School; instructor, Columbia University School of Law; adjunct professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; co-counsel to The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case; cases a ...
Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel was born in the Galilee.
Moderator of the 214th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), he is a Palestinian-American who serves the church in Atlanta, where, among other things, he directs Christmas International House, a program that matches international students with U.S. families for the Christmas holidays.
...
Ibrahim Abu Lughod (1929-2001) was born in Jaffa where his father was a metal manufacturer.
He spent most of his life in the struggle
for Palestinian rights.
In 1948 he and his family took refuge in Nablus and then Amman. In 1950, he went to the United States where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois and a PhD in Political Science from Princeton Unive ...
Susan J. Abulhawa is a Palestinian freelance writer
who was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967.
After living in Kuwait and spending three years in Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi, the East Jerusalem orphanage that was established by ...
Ali Hasan Abunimah
is a Palestinian-American media critic. He is vice-president of the
Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-based social service and advocacy organization. His media commentaries on the Middle East have appeared widely. He ...
Adalah-NY is a New York based group that is not related to Adalah -- the Palestinian human rights group.
From its About us page:
Background
The Ad-Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Justice M.E.) began organiz ...
Robert Aderholt (1965-) is the US Republican Congressman for Haleyville, Alabama. He is recipient of US$36,500 pro-Israel group money since 1996.
“When I go into churches in the 4th District," Aderholt said, "there are only two countries I pray for: ...
Andrew Adler is the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, who on 13 January 2012 wrote a piece where he listed as one of several options for Netanyahu: to "give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping ...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a zionist organization that was originally founded to purportedly combat anti-semitsm in the United States. However, the ADL also has acquired an ideological role by pushing "anti-semitism" as one of the main tenets of zionism. This entail exaggerating "anti-semitism" claims or constantly harping on this issue to keep it on the agenda. Furthermore, ADL has ...
Nahum Admoni (born 1929) was the Director of the Mossad from 1982 to 1990. Born in Jerusalem to Polish immigrants, he fought in the 1948 War in the SHAI, the Haganah intelligence branch, and later in the newly created Israeli Defense Force Intelligence. After the war he went to the United States and studied at the University of California at Berkeley, returning to Israel in 1954. There he rejoin ...
L. K. Advani is a former "Home Minister of India, and a brigand of the Hard Right"
Vijay Prashad reports:
When the Hindu Right came to power in the late 1990s, it hastened both the economic
"liberalization" policy (with a Minister for Privatization in office) and it shifted its attentions to Washington, DC and Tel Aviv: an axis of the three powers against what it c ...
Founded in 1953, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was dedicated to supporting African liberation struggles and informing the American public about African issues. As one of the first national organizations dedicated to anti-colonial struggles in Africa, the organization played host to countless African leaders in the United States. ...
The Palestine Telegraphic Agency was established in 1923.
Eight months later, in April 1924, it appointed the
Jewish Telegraph Agency as its sole representative in the United States.
The Palestine Telegraphic Agency published the Palestine Bulletin. ...
Gershon Agronsky (1894-1959; later, Agron) ... a Ukrainian-born American journalist in Palestine and former Jewish Legionnaire ... in 1925 he was director of the Palestine Zionist Executives press office... later, he was the founder-editor of The Palestine Post ... died in office as Mayor of Jerusalem
...
The
Agudath Israel Movement (World Agudath Israel/The World Israelite Union) was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Orthodox Judaism. Its base was in Eastern Europe where traditional Judaism was strong before the Second World War and was undergoing a revivial due to the Hasidic movement. Its origins lie in a conference held at Kattowitz in 1912 after the Tenth Wo ...
Eqbal Ahmad was a peace activist and scholar.
He was born to a family of wealthy Muslim landowners in Bihar, India. In 1947, he left with his brothers for the newly created state of Pakistan. He was active in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States.
Here are some opinions about him:
"Inevitably, reading Eqbal Ahmad's words evok ...
Trans-Ocean Airlines was a US airline which was founded in 1946 and closed down in 1962.
Transocean Airlines pilots flew over much of the world.
Pilots could be flying Muslim pilgrims to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina during the Hajj, next month flying plane-loads of monkeys from India to the United States for the Salk polio vaccine program, and the following month flying loads o ...
Dr. Sami Amin al-Arian (b: 1958), born in Kuwait
to Palestinian refugees, came to the United States in 1975, where he has since lived with his wife
of 25 years, Nahla, and his five American-born children. Arrested on 20 Feb 2003, Al Arian has been
a political prisoner in the United States since then. In Sep ...
Prince Turki al-Faisal is the former Saudi ambassador in Washington (September 2005 until February 2007). He often consorts with neocons.
The Henry Jackson Society profile provided for a lecture event at the House of Commons (24 Janurary 2011):
His Royal Highness Prince Turki
Al-Faisal is one of the founders of the King Faisal Foundation and is the chairman of the King Fa ...
Muhammad Fadhil al-Jamali (1903-1997) an Iraqi politician, Iraqi foreign minister, and prime minister of Iraq from 1953 to 1954. In 1945, al-Jamali, as Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed the United Nations Charter on behalf of his country.
Later, he was a defendant in a show trial in 1958-59.
...
Iraqi statesman who was the last survivor of the signatories to the UN Charter ...
Ahmed Al-Jarallah is the editor-in-chief of the Arab Times , the Kuwaiti newsorgan.
From a recent editorial by Ahmed Al-Jarallah:
PEOPLE of Arab countries, especially the Lebanese and Palestinians, have been held hostage for a long time in th ...
Until 2003, Rashid I. Khalidi was professor of Middle East history and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago.
In September 2003, Dr. Khalidi was appointed to the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York.
He h ...
Khalil al-Sakakini (1880-1953), a Greek-Orthodox Palestinian writer and educator, was born in Jerusalem. At a young age, he emigrated to the United States where he failed as a businessman.
He returned to Palestine in 1908 when the Young Turk Revolt broke out; became a leader and organizer of the struggle against the patriarchate; elected member of the delegation to Istanbul in 1909 to protest ...
Muntazer al-Zaidi (1979-) is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who serves as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. Al-Zaidi's reports often focused on the plight of widows, orphans, and children in the Iraq War.
On November 16, 2007, al-Zaidi was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Baghdad. He was also previously twice arrested by the United States armed forces serv ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (b. Nov. 1969; Somalia) is a Dutch citizen of Somali origin who presently resides in Washington, D.C.. She has built a career as a critic of Islam, a religion she renounced after the 9/11, through lectures and interviews she decries what she regards as the religion's brutality. She rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment all the way into the Dutch Parliament [on a ticket from th ...
Hani Almadhoun is originally from Beit Lahia in the Northern Gaza Strip, where he completed his secondary and part of his university studies. Hani moved to the United States in 2000 and continued his studies. Hani holds an MPA from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business and currently lives in Washington D.C. where he works for a non-profit that helps promote Palestinian culture a ...
Major General (Res.) Doron Almog is a former Commander (2000-2003) of the IDF's Southern Command. Almog was born in Israel in 1951. After completing his high school education at Haifa Military Boarding School he joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1969, volunteering in the Paratroop Brigade where he served in all command roles, from platoon commander to brigade commander
...
Haggai Alon is (2007) a senior political advisor to Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz.
Recently appointed as the Minister's advisor on the fabric of life of Palestinians, Mr. Alon's responsibilities in this capacity include issues related to the separation barrier and movement and access, including Karni and other crossings. A veteran of the kibbutz movement and close confidant of ...
Yossi (Joseph) Alpher (born in Washington D.C. and moved to Israel in 1964) a former senior Mossad official, is an Israeli strategic analyst. He is a former director
of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Alpher is a consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues, and is co-editor, with Ghassan Khatib (minister of labour in the Palestinian Author ...
Linah Alsaafin is a recent graduate of Birzeit University in the West Bank. She was born in Cardiff, Wales and was raised in England, the United States and Palestine. Her website is lifeonbirzeitcampus.blogspot.com
Linah ...
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (May 17, 1914 – May 26, 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.
Born and raised in Avon, Connecticut, Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University. After graduating from Yale in 1936, Alsop moved to New York City, where he worked as an editor for the publishing house of Doubleday, Doran.
After the United States entered World War II ...
Dr Arieh Altman (1902-1982) ... Revisionist leader. Born in the Ukraine, immigrated to Palestine 1925, studied in the United States where he became one of the leaders of the Revisionist Zionist movement and a close collaborator of its founder, Ze'ev Jabotinsky. From 1937 headed the Revisionist movement in Palestine. Following the failure of its list in the elections for the First Knesset and its ...
Dunya Alwan is co-director (with Hannah Mermelstein) of Birthright Unplugged, which takes mostly Jewish North American people into the West Bank to meet with Palestinian people and to equip them to return to their own communities and wor ...
Khalid Amayreh (b. 1957 Hebron) is a Palestinian journalist based in Dura, in the Hebron district.
He did his university degrees in the United States: BA in Journalism at University of Oklahoma, 1982; MA in Journalism, University of Southern Illinois, 1983. For a long time, his life was not made any easier by the fac ...
The American Council For Judaism "affirms that no individual or group can speak for all Jews, and rejects any effort to impose Jewish nationality upon all Jewry". Between 1943 and 1967, the anti-Zionist Rabbi Elmer Berger served as its executiv ...
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an international think
tank and advocacy organization, and one of the principal
components of the zionist Lobby in the United States. Jeffrey
Blankfort, a long time critic of the Israel Lobby, reports that
three organizations are responsible for influencing the political
scene primarily in the United States. ...
The American Jewish Press Association (AJPA) was founded in 1944 as a voluntary not-for-profit professional association for the English-language Jewish press in North America. AJPA represents almost 250 newspapers, magazines, individual journalists and affiliated organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
& ...
The American League for a Free Palestine (often known as the "Bergson Group") was a political action committee, acting as the American support group for Menachem Begin's Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists, which was created by a militant Zionist emissary from Jerusalem, ...
The
American Zion Commonwealth company was founded in the United States in 1914, as the Zion Commonwealth for Land Purchase and Development, by American Zionists with the purpose of acquiring lands for Jewish settlement in Palestine. During World War I, the company's activities were suspended, but with the conquest ...
Prof. Francis A. Boyle is critical of the approach to the Palestine/Israel issue taken by the US branch of Amnesty International, saying:
I served on their Board for
four years. I had to threaten a lawsuit and be prepared to
file it in New York to get on there. They depend quite heavily on
pro-Isra ...
Steve Amsel, originally from the United States, has been living in Jerusalem for more than 25 years and claims that
I have dedicated all of those years to try and create an atmosphere that will lead to a just and permanent peace in this area. Israelis and Palestinians have more in common that ...
The Amzalak family (also transliterated as Amzaleg),
of Moroccan extraction, came to the Levant
from Gibraltar. They, therefore, enjoyed the benefits
of being British subjects under the Capitulations in
the late Ottoman empire. They were part of the Sephardi modernizing elite that acted not only as
middlemen between an expanding Europe and a
Middle East being drawn ineluctably into the worl ...
Zachariah Anani is a propaganda fraudster put on tour in the United States to rail against Islam, etc. Chris Hedges stated that Anani is a "fraud".
Other useful fools used for propaganda purposes:
Walid Shoebat
...
Perry Anderson (1936-) teaches history at UCLA
Fields of interest: Modern Europe: Intellectual History
Publications:
Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism, 1974
Lineages of the Absolutist State, 1974
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, 1985
English Questions, 1992
A Zone of Engagement, 1992
The O ...
Sir Norman Norman Angell Lane (1872-1967) ... English journalist and author who wrote numerous books on the subject of peace. His most famous work, The Great Illusion (1910), sought to establish the fallacy of the idea that conquest and war brought a nation great economic benefits. Angell was awarded the Nobel prize for peace in 1933.
...
Itai Anghel is is a senior correspondent for the weekly current affairs program "UVDA" on Israel's Channel 2 television.
NCF profile:
ITAI ANGHEL is a senior correspondent for the weekly current affairs program "UVDA" on Israel's Channel 2 television, the Israel ...
Moses "Moe" Louis Annenberg (February 11, 1877 – July 20, 1942) was a major U.S. newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States.[1] in 1936.
Annenberg began his career as a Chicago newspaper salesman for the Hearst Corporation. He eventually built a fortune and the successful publishing company that became Triang ...
Zef Chafets reports (October 2007):
For many years, the most famous SY in the world was Eddie Antar , known professionally as
Crazy Eddie. In the '70s, he revolutionized the home electronics business and created an empire.
Nobody did retail theater better than Crazy Eddie. His souk-smart salesmen – many of them relatives and friends from the enclave &ndash ...
C. Ross Anthony is a Senior RAND policy analyst. From his RAND biography one finds:
C. Ross Anthony
Associate Director of the Center for Domestic and International Health Security
Expertise:
International health, mi ...
Alia Arasoughly is a filmmaker, curator, film theorist and sociologist of culture, based in Ramallah.
She grew up in Lebanon, lived in the United States and moved to Palestine after the Oslo Accords.
She has lectured internationally on issues of post-colonialism, gender and national identity in the Arab film production. She curated and directed the famous Liberation and Alienation ...
Moshe Arens (1925-) is an ex-defence minister of Israel.
He is widely viewed as a right-wing Zionist.
His early childhood was spent in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he was born in December 1925.
The family moved to the United States when he was about 13
years old.
In 1948, against his family's wishes, Arens went to
Israel and joined the Jewish underground terrorist
movement, the Irgun ...
Yigal Arens is a son of
Moshe Arens.
He refused to serve in the Israeli army in the 1970s and left the country for the United States (where he now works at the
Information Sciences Institute in
the University of So ...
Patrick Arguello (1943-70) was a Nicaraguan-American who participated in one of the 6 September 1970 hijackings. He and Leila Khaled, boarded El AL 217, a Boeing 707 flight from Amsterdam to New York, using fake Honduras passports. The hijack ...
The
Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established during World War I as the British Army's 38th Battalion, 39th Battalion, ...
Arnold & Porter LLP is a nine-office international law firm based in Washington, D.C. Arnold & Porter is well known for its trial, corporate, and antitrust work, and for its pro bono commitments. Founded in 1946, it is one of the largest law firms in the world today.
Grant Smith reports ...
Ziad Asali is the president and founder of the ATFP; he is the former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Asali was born in Jerusalem and studied at the American University of Beirut. He has practiced medicine in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem and the United States. Asali is also the current Chairma ...
Gabriel Ash was born in Romania and grew up in Israel, where he served in the Israel Defence Forces.
He now lives in the United States.
He writes regularly for the Yellow Times -- see a collection of his articles which is maintained by YT..
...
The
Suez Canal Users' Association was set up on 21 September 1956, at the end of the second London Conference on the Suez crisis, but it was formally inaugurated in London on 1 October 1956.
Establishment of the association was promoted by Britain, France and the US.
The members of the Association were th ...
Michael Czernichow Astour (1916-2004) had a long career as Professor of Yiddish and Russian Literature
at Brandeis University and as Professor of History (Classical cultures and
Ancient Near East) at Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville).
He was born in Kharkov on December 17, 1916, the only child
of Joseph Czernichow (a lawyer) and Rachel Hoffmann (a historian). The
family ...
Amjad Atallah
is founder and President of Strategic Assessments Initiative
and is co-director of the Middle East task force at the New America Foundation
Mr. Atallah received a B.A. and M.A. from the Universit ...
Warren Robinson Austin (1877 - 1962) ... a Republican Senator from Vermont; born in Highgate Center, Franklin County, Vt., November 12, 1877; attended the public schools; graduated from Brigham Academy, Bakersfield, Vt., in 1895 and from the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1899; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice at St. Albans, Vt.; served as State’s attorn ...
Shlomo Avineri is (2001) director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University.
Norman Finkelstein wrote:
… whereas Israeli doves ridicule Professor Shlomo Avineri as the "Ariel Sharon of the academic world" (see Yossi Sarid, "O, brave new world," The Jerus ...
Dr. Mubarak Awad was born in the eastern sector of Jerusalem, acquiring Jordanian nationality. In 1969, he migrated to the United States, where he married an American citizen and became an American citizen by naturalization. Israel expelled him from Jerusalem in June 1988.
Mubarak Awad is director of ...
Michele Marie Bachmann (born April 6, 1956) is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Minnesota's 6th congressional district, and a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. She previously served in the Minnesota State Senate and is the first Republican woman to represent the state in Congress.
She is a fervent supporter ...
Brian Norton Baird (1956-) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Washington. Baird has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing Washington's 3rd congressional district.
Philip Weiss comments (9 December 2009) ...
Adalah profile:
Abeer Baker, Advocate
Working with Adalah since 2000. Received an L.L.B. from Haifa University in 2001 and an award for community activism from the Faculty of Law. Abeer serves as a legal staff member and the coordinator
of the Criminal Justice Proj ...
In 1930, the Anglo-Palestine Company (which had been formed in 1902 as a subsidiary of the Jewish Colonial Trust)
changed its name to Anglo-Palestine Bank .
After the founding of the state of Israel on 15 May 15 194 ...
The World Bank is an international organization putatively involved in fostering development in the less developed world. It is mostly controled by the United States. Its current president is Paul Wolfowitz, one of the neocons responsible for instigating the war against Iraq – seen as stellar qualification to deal with development issues at the Bank.
See ...
Saed Bannoura (b. 1973) is a Palestinian journalist working for the Bethlehem-based IMEMC (www.imemc.org). Saed currently lives in the United States. He is confined to a wheelchair since
1991 after being shot repeatedly by an Israeli death squad, who had infiltrated a demonstration in Bethlehem. In his own ...
Bharat Barai is (2008) Trustee, Federation of Indian Associations (FIA), Chicago
Barai writes:
In May, 2007, we both had the privilege to revisit Israel after a gap of almost 30 years as part of American Jewish
Committee's ...
Panna Barai is (2008) President, Indian-American Cultural Association, Indiana
Barai writes:
In May, 2007, we both had the privilege to revisit Israel after a gap of almost 30 years as part of American Jewish
Committee's ...
Hillel Bardin is a retired Israeli computer programmer who used to work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a volunteer with Rabbis for Human Rights.
In 1988, when he was a reservist in the Israeli Army, he was jailed for 2 weeks for trying to mediate an agree between his unit and Palestinians in ...
Ze'ev (Zev) Barkan (also known as Zev Bruckenstein) was born in the United States as Ze'ev William Brokenstein in 1967.
There are (Sept 2004) unconfirmed reports that Barkan, the alleged mastermind of the attempted passports fraud by Mossad in NewZealand, has since that affair used the identity of a Canadian citizen, Kevin William Hunter, in Asia.
...
Alben William Barkley (1877–1956) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Kentucky, and the thirty-fifth Vice President of the United States (1949-1953). In 1951, he toured the US making speeches for a half-billion-dollar Israeli bond issue, the then-largest ever offered to the U.S. public.
...
Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989) is widely regarded as the foremost Jewish historian of the 20th century.
Baron was born in Tarnow, now Poland, but then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. From 1917 to 1923 he earned doctorates in philosophy, political science, and jurisprudence from the University of Vienna and a rabbinical degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna. From ...
Charles Barron is former Black Panther who was elected as a councilman in Brooklyn, New York. On one occassion he:
...blasted his Council colleagues for being “too pro-Israel.” Refusing to vote for various resolutions in support of Israel, Barron sparked an impassioned debate in the Council in 2002 when he sponsored his own measure calling for an end to violence between Palest ...
Dr. James Levi Barton (1855-1936), born in Charlotte, Vermont, was an American Congregationalist missionary in Anatolia. ... He was the head of the American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions, the largest of the American missionary groups. ...
In 1893-1894, he was president of Euphrates College (a coeducational high school in Harput, a town in the eastern Turkey, founded and directed b ...
Sari Bashi is the founder and director of Gisha
Bashi is an
Israeli citizen who grew up in the US. She is a former journalist and a Yale Law School-trained human rights lawyer, licensed in Israel and New York, who clerked in Israel's Supreme Court and worked with human rights NGOs before founding Gisha.
...
Hanna Batatu was born in 1926 in Jerusalem.
His first employment was as a staff officer with the Palestine Mandatory Government in Jerusalem in the 1940s. Following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Batatu emigrated to the United States, living with relatives and working as a manager of a carpet company in Stamford, CT until 1951, when, at the age of 25, he entered Georgetown Unive ...
Julian Batchinsky (1870-1940) ... was (1919) the Ukrainian Diplomatic Representative to the United States ... From 1921 to 1929 he lived in Germany, later in Lviv. After 1932 he lived in Kiev, who worked for the "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia."
In 1934, he was accused of anti-Soviet terrorist activities. He was arrested and sentenced to 10-year sentence and was in the wash-labor camps of the ...
Dr. Dalit Baum is a feminist anti-occupation activist from Israel, working with Women in Black, Black Laundry and Anarchists Against Fences. Baum teaches Gender and the Global Economy at the Haifa University and Beit Berl college in Israel, and coordinates the 'Who Profits from the Occupation' project in the Coalition of Women for Peace.
...
Glenn Beck (born 1964) is a right-wing Mormon recovering alcoholic American talk-radio and television host.
His radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, is syndicated by 232 radio stations and on XM Satellite Radio, in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. The Glenn Beck Program is the third highest-ranked national radio talk show among adults ages 25 to 54, according to Premie ...
Mordechai Beck is a Jerusalem-based artist and writer. He has published fiction in The Literary Review, Tikkun and Ariel. His reviews and essays have been widely published in newspapers and journals in the United Kingdom, the United States and Israel.
...
Edward Behr (May 7, 1926, Paris - May 27, 2007, Paris) was a foreign correspondent and war journalist, who worked for many years for Newsweek.
His parents were of Russian descent, and he had a bilingual education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and St Paul's School, London. He enlisted in the Indian Army on leaving school, serving in Intelligence in the North-West Frontier from 1944 to ...
Israel Belkind (1861-1929) ... Bilu member
Belkind was born in Byelorussia near Minsk. He received a Hebrew education from his father, who was a leader in the movement promoting Hebrew education in Russia. Belkind also attended a Russian gymnasium and intended to go on to university, but instead became in ...
Walden Bello is a TNI Fellow and Board member, Bello is Director of Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, a project of Chulalongkorn University's Social Research Institute and Professor of Public Administration and Sociology at ...
Rabbi Dr. Michael Ben-Ari (b. 1963) is (2009) a MK for the supremacist National Union.
Haaretz reports (11 February 2009):
National Union MK Rabbi Dr. Michael Ben-Ari on Thursday said the recent election results prove that Israelis agree with the extreme right-wing views of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. Ben-Ari was recently quoted as calling himself a Kahane discipl ...
Pola (Paula) Ben-Gurion (died in 1968) was the wife of David Ben Gurion. Born in Russia as Pola Munweis (or Monbesz), she was raised in the United States. Ben-Gurion met his future wife, who was a nurse (trained at Beth Israel Hospital in New Jersey) and an active member of the Poalei Zion Zionist organization, in the ...
Henry Berkowitz, a Reform rabbi and educator, was born March 18, 1857 in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Louis and Henrietta (Jaroslawski)
Berkowitz. Berkowitz was educated in the public schools of Pittsburgh and
graduated from the Central High School in 1872. He attended Cornell University
for one year intending to become a lawyer. His career plans changed abru ...
Ilan Berman is the head of the Foreign Policy Research Center (FPRC), an ultra-zionist think tank.
From a Henry Jackson Society speaker profile (15 October
2009):
Ilan Berman is Vice President for Policy of the American Foreign
Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security
in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he
has consu ...
Folke Bernadotte (1895-1948) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 2, 1895. A descendent of the Napoleonic marshal Jean Bernadotte, who in 1810 was elected crown prince of Sweden, and in 1818 succeeded to the throne as Charles XIV, Count Bernadotte was also a grandson of King Oscar II of Sweden and a nephew of King Gustav V. After graduating from the military school of Karlberg, he studied h ...
Michael Bernet was born in Germany and was smuggled out of Germany to England ten months before the outbreak of World War II. In 1948, he volunteered for the Israeli Army, serving in the maps and photography division of the Intelligence Corps. He became a journalist writing for a number of Israeli and British papers, first in English and then also in Hebrew. From 1959 to 1960 he pub ...
Johann Heinrich, Graf von Bernstorff ... German ambassador to the United States in early part of World War I ... chairman of the Pro-Palaestina Komitee in the early 1930s ...
Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951), British labour leader and politician, was born in a small village in Somerset, England. His father, whom he never knew, was an agricultural labourer and his mother was a housemaid who died when he was eight. He had no formal education, and at the age of eleven he went to work as a labourer, then as a truck driver in Bristol. In 1910 he became secretar ...
The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, better known as BICOM, is a British zionist hasbara organization which aims to monitor and influence the British media. The group is funded to a great extent by Poju Zabludowicz. According to Daniel Shek, the former CEO, AIPAC assists BICOM. [1]
...
George Biddle (1885-1973) was a painter belonging to the Social Realism school -- a form of naturalistic realism focusing specifically on social problems and the hardships of everyday life. The term most commonly refers to the urban American Scene artists of the Depression era, who were greatly influenced by the Ashcan School of early 20th century New York City.
(Social Realism is a rather pejo ...
Gus Bilirakis, a Republican, has represented the Ninth Congressional District of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. He is the sponsor of H.R. 2278, a bill to ban Al Manar in the United States. ...
American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan ... founded in 1934 ... merged with IKOR in 1946.
The American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan (Ambidjan) was established on February 27, 1934, at a meeting held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City which was addressed by ...
Robert Bitker (1907-1977) ... Born in the Russian Empoire, migrated to China and was Betar commander in China. Bitker was commander of the Jewish military unit in the international zone in Shanghai with the rank of colonel.
Immigrated to Palestine in 1937 and joined the Irgun General Headquarters. After Avraham Teh ...
Jacob Blaustein (1892-1970) ... US businessman engaged in marketing oil ... leader of the American Jewish Committee At the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945, Blaustein and and another AJC leader, Joseph Proskauer, were of ...
Sol Bloom (1870–1949) was an entertainment and popular music entrepreneur who billed himself as "Sol Bloom, the Music Man" and served for many years in the United States House of Representatives.
In 1903 he moved to New York, where he dabbled in real estate and enlarged his chain of music departments in department stores throughout the country. In New York he sold Victor Talking Machines. He sw ...
William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam.
He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital.
In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA which reve ...
Hector Bolitho (1897-1974) was a New Zealand native and the author of more than fifty books, largely nonfiction. He is best remembered as a biographer, especially for his "tasteful" treatment of the British royal family in Albert the Good and the Victorian Reign (1932); Albert, Prince Consort (1964); and The Reign of Queen Victoria (1948). One of his few novels, Judith Silver, also won critical ...
Christopher Bollas is a member of the British Psycho-analytical Society and Honorary Member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York. He has been Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, and Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Best known for his most eloquent books on the ...
Lee C. Bollinger Born in Santa Rosa, California, Bollinger was raised there and in Baker City, Oregon. He went on to graduate from the University of Oregon in 1968 and received a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. Bollinger went on ...
John Bolton is the US State Department' Under Secretary for “arms control” (2004).
Uri Avnery writes about him: “By the way, this John Bolton is an avid supporter of the group of Zionists neo-cons who play a central role in the Bush theater. He opposes arms control for the United States and its satellites, and was installed in the State Department against the wishes of the Secretary of S ...
Hyman Bookbinder (1916-) was born in New York City to Polish immigrant parents. He attended City College of New York and did graduate studies in economics, sociology and political science at New York University and the New School for Social Research.
In 1978 President Jimmy Carter appointed Mr. Bookbinder a member of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust to make recommendations fo ...
Dr. Alexander Boraine (1931-), born in Cape Town, served as deputy to Archbishop Desmond Tutu when the latter chaired South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Studied at Rhodes University, University of Oxford and Drew University. Formerly: 12 years as Member of South African Parliament; Founder, Insti ...
Kamal Boullata, a leading Palestinian painter and art historian, was born in 1942 in Jerusalem where he grew up. He graduated from the Rome Fine Arts Academy and from the Corcoran Museum Art School in Washington, D.C.
In 1993 and 1994, he was the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to conduct research on Islamic art in Morocco. Among the public collections containing Bo ...
Teofil Boutagy (1870-1944) ... was educated at the Syrian Protestant school in beirut and was a pioneer of British trade and appointed honorary consul for the United States and Finland.
The Boutagy family was of Maltese origin; its ancestor had accompanied the Napoleonic expedition to Palestine and settled in Acre.
...
Francis A. Boyle is Professor of International Law Legal at the
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
He was an advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization on
Creation of the State of Palestine (1987-1989),
a Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the
Middle East Peace Negotiations (1991-1993),
Sometime Legal Advisor to the
Provisional Government of the State of ...
Joseph Brainin (1895-1970), born in Vienna, ...
attended schools and
universities in Berlin, Geneva,
Liege and Montreal. He joined the
Jewish Legion in 1918 and served
as recruiting officer until departure
for military training in Palestine with
Palestinian battalion; rank caporal.
On demobilization, he mad ...
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), a prominent American lawyer and judge, helped lead the American Zionist movement. He was appointed by Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916 (sworn-in on June 5), and served until 1939. He was the first Jew to hold that office.
Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His family immigrated to the United States from Pra ...
Aurel Braun is (2010) the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Rights & Democracy, a Canadian "not-for-profit organization created
by Canada's parliament in 1988 to encourage and support human rights around the world". In 2010, Braun led calls to stop funds to Al Haq and Al Mesan, two Palestinian human rights organizations.
From the Rights & Democracy ...
Irus Braverman is an associate professor of Law at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She acquired her doctoral degree in Law (SJD) from the University of Toronto, and both her Masters in Criminology and LL.B. in Law from the Heb ...
Dr. David Breakstone (his doctorate is in Jewish Education from the Hebrew University) heads (2003) the World Zionist
Organization's Department for Zionist
Activities and is a member of the Jewish Agency
Executive.
He previously served as Director of Ramah Programs in Israel and, before that, as Director of the Pedagogic Cente ...
The Break the Silence Mural Project (BTS) is an arts/activist group committed to using creative projects to facilitate social change and greater awareness of the complexities of the conflict in Occupied Palestine. In 2001, BTS brought together Americans, American Jews and Palestinian youth and artists in the ...
Daniel Cil Brecher is an independent historian living in Amsterdam. A former director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, he has taught at Haifa University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; his documentaries and exhibitions have been shown throughout Europe and the United States.
Brecher was born in Tel Aviv in 1951. Two years later his family moved to Dusseldorf. He stud ...
Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner is director of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Theological Seminary ...
Brenner is (2008) Vice President of Education for the Taglit-Birthright Israel Foundation
...
The son of a Lithuanian immigrant, and brought up in a strictly orthodox Jewish family, Robert Briscoe (1894-1969) was sent to America by his father in 1914, apparently for fear of conscription -- incidentally, the British never imposed conscription in Ireland because of overwhelming objection from the Irish population. Briscoe returned to Ireland after the Easter Rising in 1916. He joined Fiann ...
David Brog is the exec director of Christians United For Israel, and author of Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State
From Brog's website:
David Brog lives and writes in Washington, DC. He worked in the United States Senate for seven years, rising to be ch ...
Kevin Alan Brook is the founder of
Khazaria.com. Here is a curriculum vitae.
His writings have appeared in the Encyclopaedia of Judaism, in Los Muestros: The Sephardic Voice, and elsewhere, including on the website of the World Zionist Organization.
Brook,
a resident of Connecticut whose Jew ...
Earl Browder (1891-1973) was an American socialist and leader of the Communist Party USA from 1932 to 1944. A change in the Party
line in the Soviet Union in 1944 brought opposition against him and his replacement by William Z, Foster as Chairman and Eugene Dennis as General Secretary. Browder was outspoken in his belief that a socialist revolution could be achieved in the U.S. gradually and t ...
Christopher Brown ... from San Francisco, but born in South Africa, is (September 2004) a CPT volunteer in Hebron. ... blog is www.cbgonzo.blogspot.com
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David Abraham Brown (1875-1958) ... banker ... president and publisher of the American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune ... visited Jews of Kaifeng in 1932 ...
John Brown, a veteran of more than two decades in the Foreign Service, informed Secretary of State Colin Powell in a letter written in March 2003 that he was leaving the department immediately “because I cannot in good conscience support President Bush’s war plans against Iraq.” In doing so, he joined a fellow Foreign Service officer, John Brady Kiesling, who also resigned that month in protest ...
Abraham Brumberg (1926-2008)
wrote widely on Russia, Eastern Europe, and contemporary Jewish affairs. He also authored articles in Yiddish and was the performer of an album called "Of Lovers, Dreamers, and Thieves--Yiddish Folk Songs from Eastern Europe."
Brumberg was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to Polish Jews. In Poland, his father had been a leader of the Bund but had to flee the ...
Dennis Brutus is (2005) Professor emeritus, African Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Dennis Brutus was born in 1924, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, of South African parents. Educated at Fort Hare College and the University of the Witwatersrand, he taught for 14 years in South Africa and ...
Mark Bruzonsky is a former senior official of the Jewish Agency of the U.S. He's come a long way, in that he now seems able to see the tragedy from the "other side."
He now seems to argue for a 1-state solution -- ending the partition of Palestine and creating a state in which all citizens would be equal.
See the following ...
James Bryce (1838-1922), 1st Viscount Bryce, OM, GCVO, FRS, PC, FBA, a British jurist, historian and politician, was born at Belfast on May 10 1838. He went to Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1862 was elected a fellow of Oriel. He went to the bar and practised in London for a few years, but he was soon called back to Oxford as regius professor of civil law (1870-1893). His reputation as a histor ...
Stephen David Bryen is a leading neoconservative figure who has served as head of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).
(His wife, Shoshana Bryen, has also occupied the same post.)
Bryen
is associated with various defense contractors and rightist policy outfits. He is also closely connected to various high-profile neocons like Richard Perle, under whom Bryen served when ...
Charles Anthony Buckley (1890-1967) ... Democrat United States Congressman from Bronx, New York 1935-1965. Member of the board of aldermen of New York City 1918-1923. State tax appraiser 1923-1929. Chamberlain of New York City 1929-1933. ...
William Francis Buckley (30 May 1928 - 3 June 1985) was a United States Army officer and intelligence agency operative. He died on or about June 3, 1985 after being held captive by members of Hezbollah.
See Wikipedia
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Jacob Mordechai Budish (1886-19??), born in Russia, was, in the 1930s, the chairman of the administrative committee of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan (Ambidjan). Budish was a member of the Communist Party USA and an employee of Amtorg, the New York-based Soviet foreign trade office in ...
Sir Andrew Burns is a former British diplomat who in 2005 became a BBC International Governor with responsibility for the BBC Global News Division (i.e. BBC Monitoring in Caversham, BBC World
Service and BBC World TV). Burns replaced Dame Pauline Neville-Smith. The main role Burns will have is to oversee the BBC World Service's role in "public diplomacy" (See note#3).
From his BBC ...
General Eedson Louis Millard ("Tommy") Burns (1897-1985), a Canadian, was (1955) the chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization. Burns served as commander of the first United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East from 1956 to 1959. For two years before assuming the UNEF command, General Burns was chief of staff of the UN Truce Supervisory Organization in the Middle ...
R. Nicholas Burns is (2006) US under-secretary of state for political affairs.
His State Department biography:
2005: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the Department of State's third ranking official. As Under Secretary, he oversees U.S. policy in each regi ...
Scott Burns is a film director, producer and script writer. Burns co-produced Al Gore's Incovenient Truth. Burns attended several zionist camps in the United States and is a fervent zionist. Burns has worked together with Arianna Huffington.
...
George W. Bush (alias "Dubya" or "Shrub") was "elected" President of the United States under dubious circumstances in 2000. He is sometimes referred to as "Dubya". Molly Ivins, the Texan commentator refers to him as "Shrub", to distinguish him from his daddy.
...
General Smedley Butler was born in Pennsylvania on 30 July 1881, and was raised a Quaker.
Nevertheless,
he joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the Boxer Rebellion in China, saw action in Central America, and in France during World War I was promoted to Major General. Smedley Butler served in the US military for 34 years, yet he spo ...
Abraham ("Abe") Cahan (1860 - 1951) was an American labor organizer and author.He was born in Podberezhye, in the Vilna region of the Russian Empire, into a Jewish Orthodox family. He emigrated to the United States in 1881 in order to escape the massive roundup of revolutionaries after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia. He became a leading writer and lecturer for labor movements in New ...
Louise Cainkar is a human rights professional who for many years was based in Jerusalem. For the past few years she is teaching sociology at the University of Illinois - Chicago.
...
Marco Cappato is (2006) a Euro-MEP. In Nov. 2006, Cappato has been part of a movement seeking EU membership for Israel.
From his website:
Marco Cappato was born in Milan, he has a bachelors degree in economics from the Bocconi University in Italy. He
was the general advisor of the ...
Smadar Carmon was born on a kibbutz in Israel and served in the Israeli army for 2 years in the early 1970's. She initially left Israel in 1980, though she returned intermittently for several years at a time. Smadar traveled in the Far East and lived for many years in the United States, before finally settling in Toronto, Canada. In Toronto she became very active in opposing the Israeli Occupatio ...
Richard Casey (1890-1976) ... In 1940 Menzies appointed Casey as the first Australian Ambassador to the United States. This was a vital posting in wartime, but it also served to get Casey out of domestic politics. Casey was in Washington when the United States entered the war, and played an importan ...
Douglass Cassel is (2003) director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northerwestern University School of Law in Chicago.
He is an attorney, journalist and scholar specializing in international human rights, international humanitarian and international criminal l ...
Sir Ernest Cassel GCB GCMG GCVO (1852–1921) was a British merchant banker and capitalist.
Cassel was one of the shareholders of the Jewish Colonization Association founded by Baron de Hirsch.
Born in Cologne, Germany, the son of ...
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH , PC (1864–1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations, whose decades of service to the that organization saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.
He was a son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3 ...
Emanuel Celler ... Zionist congressman from Brooklyn
Emanuel Celler (1888–1981) was a politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. For his first twenty-two years in Congress, 1923–1945, Celler's Brooklyn and Queens-based district was numbered as New York's 10th congressional district. Redistrict ...
Clarence Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, has represented Georgia in the United States Senate since 2002. In Georgia's December 2, 2008, run-off election, Chambliss was endorsed by the MAF Freedom PAC, which is associated with the pro-war group Move America Forward.
Affiliations
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Camille Nimer Chamoun (1900-1987) was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and served his country in numerous other capacities throughout his adult life. A staunch nationalist and fervent anti-communist, Chamoun opposed the Pan-Arabism advocated by Egypt's president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and thwarted an attempted Pan-Arabist takeover of Lebanon in 1958. In the 1970s, he helped to found the Le ...
Ben Chavis one time minister and civil rights leader in the United States. He headed NAACP at one point.
Comment by Jeffrey Blankfort:
Now many Jews have worked very hard for justice for African-Americans, but no Jew should have accepted a position
as the head of NAACP, or the l ...
Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He received his Ph.D. in the History of Judaism from Temple University. He is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has taught for over 30 years.
For most of that time his research has dealt with issues of war, peace, and national security ...
Erskine Childers (1929 - 1996) was Secretary-General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA).
He died suddenly on 25 August 1996, shortly after giving a speech at its 50th anniversary congress in Luxembourg.
His father, also called Erskine Childers, was president
of Ireland.
His grandfather, who also bore the same name,
was author of Riddle of the Sands and ...
From the American Academy in Berlin biography:
Research Associate, George Washington University, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Bosch
Public Policy Fellow, American Academy in Berlin
From 1999-2001, Derek Chollet served in the U.S. State Department ...
James R. Clapper, Jr. (born 14 March 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is currently the Director of National Intelligence. He was previously dual-hatted as the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence alongside the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Clapper has held several key p ...
Helena Cobban is a writer and syndicated columnist on international affairs. She has contributed a regular column to The Christian Science Monitor since 1990: it covers a broad range of issues including strategic affairs, human rights, peace-building, global governance, and international justice. She contr ...
Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941- July 2012) was the great muckraking journalist who wrote for The Nation, and several other American magazines. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of CounterPunch. He will be sadly missed as a courageous journalist, great writer, and someone with a great sense of humour.
Alex used to live in the secluded town of Petrolia on the "Lost Coast" of no ...
Aaron Cohen grew up in Beverly Hills, California. After spending three years in one of Israel's "black ops" units, Sayeret Duvdevan, he returned home and founded IMS Security, a consulting firm that specializes in protecting politicians, business executives, Hollywood actors, and rock stars, and offers counterterroris ...
Annie Cohen was born in Sidi-Bel-Abbes, in Algeria. She has lived in Paris since 1967.
Elle a publié une vingtaine d’ouvrages, romans ou récits/poèmes : Le Marabout de Blida (Actes Sud, Folio), Les cahiers bleus, La langue blanche des rouleaux d’écriture (éditions du Rocher), Bésame Mucho, La dure-mère, et Géographie des origines (Gallimard, 2007). Elle mène parallèlement une activit ...
Dr. Avner Cohen is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Program on Global Security and Disarmament and the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM), both at the University of Maryland. He is also an independent consultant on nuclear proliferation and the Middle East issues.
From 1997-98 he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) working ...
White House announcement profile:
David S. Cohen, Nominee for
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, Department of the Treasury
David S. Cohen was confirmed by the United States Senat ...
Morris Abraham Cohen, known as "Two-Gun" Cohen, was born in Poland, reared in England and wound up in China, where he became Sun Yat-sen's personal bodyguard. His story spawned several books and also a movie called "The General Died at Dawn." Representatives of the Zionist movement flew him to the United States to help out with their efforts to secure China's support for them, which he did.
& ...
From the Hasbara Fellowship biography:
Mike Cohen, a former executive at the National Basketball Association and the American Sportscasters Association, is the Senior Analyst of the Galilee Institute (http://www.gogalil.com) in Jerusalem and an oft requested speaker and scholar-in-residence for both Jewish and Christian organizations and congregations worldwide. A 22-year vetera ...
James Colbert is communications director of the Jewish Institure for National Security Affairs (JINSA), an American Zionist think-tank which seeks to influence US policies in favour of Israel -- here is how it describes itself
"The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
is a non- ...
Peter Cole is a poet and translator. Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. He began studying Hebrew in Jerusalem in 1981, and has since divided his time between Israel and the United States.
The recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Peter Cole has published two collections of poetry, Rift (Station Hill) and Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press). A third volume, W ...
Combined Systems Inc., founded in 1981, is a United States company based in Jamestown, Pennsylvania. It manufactures the tear gas projectiles/crowd control weapons/pepper spray which are used by the Israeli Army.
Resources
Company website
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The Comité français d'information et d'action auprès des Juifs des pays neutres was a major French propaganda effort aimed at American Jewry. ... It was created by the Quai d'Orsay's Comité de propagande after consultation with the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Commission and Prime Minister Briand. It was housed in 243 Blvd. St. Germain.
On 16 December 1915 the ...
The
King-Crane Commission, named after its members, Charles R. Crane and Henry C. King, was
created after Julius Kahn's lobbying against Zionism (see page 1 ...
Ad-hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) is a 12-member committee that serves as the principal policy-level coordination mechanism for development assistance to the Palestinian people. The AHLC is chaired by Norway and co-sponsored by the EU and US. In addition, the United Nations participates together with the World Bank (Secretariat) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The AHLC seeks to promote ...
German-American Literary Defense Committee ...
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United States Brewers Association, 50 Union Square
New York, March 17, 1915
Mr. Percy Andreae,
Transportation Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
My Dear Mr. Andreae: I am enclosing, for your information, copy of report of the German-American Literary Defense Committee of New York.
Very Truly yours,
HF ...
The Jewish Congress Organization Committee was established in New York city on 21 March 1915, with Gedaliah Bublick as chairman and Max Girsdansky as secretary, the committee being largely made up of delegates from national and central orga ...
The Palestine Resistance Committee was established in New York in late 1946 to raise funds for the Irgun Zeva'i Le'umi. The committee's founders came from both factions of the American followers of the late Revisionist Zionist leader Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky. One was the United Zionists-Revisionists of America (UZRA) ...
Committee for an Open Discussion of Zionism ... their mission statement:
The Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism arises in response to the troubling practice in the United States of suppressing alternative views on Israel/Palestine and Zionism, which is growing more desperate and severe. A major instance ...
The
Consular Truce Commission set up by the UN in early 1948, was composed of the local consuls of Belgium, France and the United States. Its chairman was Jean Nieuwenhuys of Belgium and its secretary was Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez of Sp ...
Hedley V. Cooke was a foreign service officer
of the United States from 1928 to 1946, and,
subsequently, a member of the Middle East
Planning Staff of the Economic Cooperation Administration (the United States government agency set up in 1948 to administer the Marshall Plan).
Cooke served in the US consular service in Santo Domingo, Glasgow (UK), Iskenderun (Turkey) and Jerusalem ( ...
Senator Royal Samuel Copeland (1868 - 1938) ... a Senator from New York; born in Dexter, Washtenaw County, Mich., on November 7, 1868; attended the public schools and Michigan State Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.; graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; took postgraduate courses in Europe; house surgeon in the University of Michigan Hospital 188 ...
Born in 1931, David Cornwell is an author who writes under the nom-de-plume of John le Carré . Before turning to writing as a full-time occupation, he taught at Eton and was in the British foreign service. His best-known books include "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" (1963); "The Looking Glass War" (1965); "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (1974); "Smiley's People" (1980); "The Little ...
Supreme War Council ...
Lloyd George had grave concerns regarding the strategy of Sir William Robertson, chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Sir Douglas Haig, the Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, in response to the Allied losses at the Somme and at Battle of Passchendaele.
Following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Caporetto, in which the Germans and Aus ...
Charles R. Crane (1858-1939), a Chicago philanthropist and international scholar, advised President Woodrow Wilson before, during and after the Versailles Peace Conference. He served as a member of the Root Commission to the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution, as
a member (with Henry C. King, president of Oberlin College) of the King-Crane Commission to the Middle East in 1919, and as U. ...
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, known as Dick Crossman, (1907-1974) was a British Labour Party politician, author and editor of the New Statesman . One of the most prominent socialist intellectuals, he was one of the Labour Party's leading anti-communists and Zionists.
The son of a judge, he was born in Cropredy, Oxfordshire. He was educated at Winchester and New College, ...
ADL announcement (Nov. 2012)
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced the election of Barry Curtiss-Lusher as its new National Chair. A businessman and prominent community leader in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Curtiss-Lusher has been activ ...
Colonel Harry Cutler, born in Russia, member of the Rhode Island National Guard.
In 1912, Howard Taft became the first President to attend a Seder: when he visited Providence, RI, he participated in the family Seder of Colonel Harry Cutler, first president of the National Jewish Welfare Board.
... after WWI was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally m ...
Vahakn N. Dadrian ... Armenian historian
Vahakn Dadrian received his undergraduate and graduate education in Europe at the University of Berlin in mathematics, the University of Vienna in history and the University of Zürich in international law. His training in the United States was in the social sciences, culminating with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
In the ...
Fawaz Damra was deported from the United States to Israel in 2007. He was an imam at a mosque in Cleveland and in 1991 raised funds for the Palestinian cause. He was accused of having raised funds for terrorist group, but yet with no evidence to prosecute him for this, the US deported him instead. His family comes from Nablus.
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John Nelson Darby (1800-81), a renegade Irish Anglican priest, added several unique features to Way’s teachings, including the doctrine of “the Rapture,” whereby “born again Christians” would be literally removed from history and transferred to heaven prior to Jesus’ return.
Darby also placed a restored Israel at the center of his theology, claiming that an actual Jewish state called Israel wo ...
Joseph Darby ... the Army specialist who complained to his superiors about the torture of Iraqis in the Abu Graib prison.
Sergeant Joseph Darby (born c. 1979), of Corriganville, Maryland, is a {discharged} member of the United States military police who first alerted the U.S. military command of prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison, in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
In January 2004, Darby pr ...
Eron Davidson is a long-time media activist and film maker. He has produced several short videos that have helped to galvanize excitement for various community organizing projects in the United States. Davidson was born in Israel.
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Elias Davidsson was born in Palestine in 1941, during the time of the British Mandate. He regards himself as a Palestinian Jew. He is (2002) a composer living in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he moved to live in 1962.
He seems to use the
Icelandic naming convention -- taking as his surname a patronymic derived from the first name of his father, David Kahn, a German Jew who moved to Pales ...
Dr. John Herbert Davis (1904-1988) was (1959-63) commissioner-general of UNRWA and later was Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut.
Before then,
Davis worked as an agricultural economist with several U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administrations beginning in 1936, including the Resettlement Administration, the Farm Security Administra ...
Shmuel Dayan (1891-1968) was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets.
Born in the town of Jashkov in the Ukraine, he joined the Zionist movement as a boy and emigrated to Palestine, then under Ottoman rule in 1908. He worked in agriculture in the settlements of Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Yavne, and Kinneret until 1 ...
John Gunther Dean was U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, Denmark, Lebanon (his wife's family has close connection with Lebanon), Thailand, and India during a Foreign Service career that began in 1956 and ended with his retirement in 1989.
Mr Dean, is a member of a Jewish family from Breslau who fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1938, changing their name from Dienstfertig.
He wa ...
Suzan Debini is a presenter on the Arabic-language channel of Israel radio. She spent some of her high school years in the United States. Debini returned to Israel in 1978. She worked as a secretary in a building supply factory and dreamed of continuing her education. It didn't happen: She married Nazieh Debini, a welder from Nazareth, and raised their children until 1995, when her youngest son ...
Tom DeLay is the Majority Whip in the United States Congress (2002 thru 2004), and is a pro-Likudnik/Sharon cheerleader in Congress. See this Nation overview of the man.
&n ...
John Demjanjuk (1920-), born Ivan Demjanjuk, is a Ukrainian-born retired naturalized United States citizen who, in the 1980s, was identified by Israeli Holocaust survivors as "Ivan the Terrible", a notorious SS guard at the Treblinka extermination camp during the period 1942-1943. He was deported from the US to Israel where he was found guilty but acquitted on appeal. On 11 March 2009, he was ch ...
Ron Dermer is co-author with Nathan Sharansky of Case for Democracy: the Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror . Dermer was born in Miami and grew up there; his family have been involved in Miami politics.
From wikipedia (16 April 2007):
Ron ...
Bernhard Dernburg (1865-1937) was a German banker, propaganda agent and politician. In 1914-1915, while Germany was at war with Britain but the USA was still neutral, Dernburg was based in the United States and represented German viewpoints in the propaganda contest with Britain.
Dernburg was the son of publisher and politician Friedrich Dernburg (1833–1911) who was born into a Jewish ...
Alan Morton Dershowitz is a professor of Law at Harvard Univ. He admits that he is a close personal friend of Benjamin Netanyahu since 1973. 1528
See how, in 1973, Noam Chomsky exposed Dershowitz as a liar.
In 1972, Dershowitz attempted to discredit the chairman of the Israel League ...
Theodore E. Deutsch is a US Democrat Congressman for Florida.
Ranking Member, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia, United States House of Representatives ...
Joan Didion graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956.
She is a widely-published political and social essayist whose essays frequently appear in the New York Review of Books.
In her most recent collection of essays and reportage, "Political Fictions," for which she won the 2001 George Polk Award, she found that, in the United States, political dialogue had been reduced
&n ...
Dimitri Diliani is an assistant of Dr. Nusseibeh, the president of Al Quds University. He lives in Jerusalem -- his family originally came from the West part of the city. As a teenager, he participated in non-violent protest during the Intifada that began in 1987. He finished his higher education in the United States.
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Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (1881-1944) was a British commander in World War I and World War II who played a significant role in the formation of the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom and the United States. Dill commanded British forces in Palestine (1936 - 1937) ... Dill was appointed ...
Anthony Joseph Dimond (1881-1953) ... a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska; born in Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County, N.Y., November 30, 1881; attended the public schools and St. Mary’s Catholic Institute, Amsterdam, N.Y.; taught school in Montgomery County, N.Y., 1900-1903; prospector and miner in Alaska 1904-1912; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Vald ...
Mendel John Diness ... born in Odessa in 1827 ... mograted to the United States ... converted to Anglicanism from Judaism ...
Mendel Diness and earned a living as a watchmaker. Born in 1827 in Odessa, Ukraine, he had come to Jerusalem in 1848 and soon married. About the time of the birth of his first child he had accepted baptism into the Anglican church. Following the custom of that ch ...
Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian is (2003) the first Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, a position he assumed in August 1994.
See his wikipedia biography.
Prior to his nomination by President Clinton as United States Ambassador ...
Reinhard R. Doerries (c.1937-) is professor of modern history emeritus in Germany - he taught at the University of Hamburg . Educated in the United States, France, and Germany, he has published in the areas of World War I, US ethnic history, transatlantic relations, and intelligence history. His recent books include Imperial Challenge (1989), Diplomaten und Agenten (2001), Prelude to the Easter R ...
Furkan Dogan (1991-2010) was born in Troy, New York, and murdered on the high seas by Israeli troops.
UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (page 30): ...
David F Dorr (1827/29 - c. 1872) ... was born a slave in New Orleans ... in 1851-1854 he travelled around Europe and the Middle East with his master, who had promised him his freedom upon return to the United States. When this promise was not fulfilled, Dorr escaped from Louisiana to Ohio where, in Cleveland, he decided to publish an accountof his travels, based on a diary he had kept. He served ...
David Edwards an editor of Media Lens , and has articles published in The Independent , The Times , Red Pepper , New Internationalist , Z Magazine , The Ecologist , Resurgence , The Big Issue ; monthly ZNet commentator (www.zmag.org); author of Free To Be Human - Intellectual Self ...
Jo Ehrlich is a graduate student from the United States. She is currently (2009) living, working and learning in Deheishe refugee camp in occupied Palestine.
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Robert Einhorn was until 2001 a senior advisor to the US secretary of state on nuclear nonproliferation, chemical, biological and missile delivery systems.
From the CSIS biography:
Robert J. Einhorn is a senior adviser in the CSIS International Security Program, where ...
Two Rafael Eitans were prominent in Israel in the second half of
the 20th century. They are distinguished by having different
nicknames, "Raful" and "Rafi". Don't confuse him with Rafael ('Raful') Eitan
Rafael ('Rafi') Eitan (also transliterated as "Eytan"; 1926-)
was born in ...
Dr. Fouzi el-Asmar is a journalist and political analyst.
He was born in Haifa in what was then Palestine. He now holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenship. He teaches (1996) at the American University in Washington D.C.
He was a friend of the late Israel Shahak.
When El-Asmar was jailed in 1969 unde ...
Laila (sometimes transcribed as "Leila") M. El-Haddad is a Harvard-educated Palestinian mother and journalist living in Gaza. She reports for AlJazeera's English website and Pacifica Radio in the United States.
She maintains this blog and ...
Ghassan Elashi was a founder of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), and was a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Noor Elashi writes ...
Eliahu Elath (last name sometimes: Eilat; born Epstein; 1903-1990) was a Zionist representative in the US before the creation of Israel, later became the first Israeli ambassador to the United States; he held the post in 1948-1950. In 1955, he was ambassador to the UK. Later, in the mid 1960s, he was president of Hebrew University. ...
Max Elbaum has been involved in peace and anti-racist movements since joining students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960s. Through the 1970s and 1980s he participated in campaigns defending affirmative action and opposing U.S. military interventions in the Third World while writing extensively for the radical press and taking part in then-widespread efforts to cons ...
Dr. Ismar Elbogen (1874-1943) was a Jewish-German rabbi, scholar and historian.
Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebräisches Wörterbuch", and then at the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, he received his doctor's degree from the Breslau University. He obtained his rabbinical diploma in 1899 and was appointed lecturer on Biblical exegesis and Jewish ...
Bahieldin Elibrachy ... is a lawyer educated in Egypt with advanced degrees from the United States. He is a Managing Partner at Ibrachy & & Dermarkar, a law firm at Giza in Egypt.
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Michael Elkins (1917-2001; born: New York) began his radio career with CBS in September, 1956. He announced that he was returning to the United States because "nothing ever happens in Israel". A month later Britain and France invaded Suez and Israeli tanks rolled into Sinai.
From war to war, Elkins covered Israel, first for CBS, then for Newsweek, and for 17 years for BBC radio. He scoope ...
Judge Thomas Selby Ellis III (born May 15, 1940, Bogotá, Colombia) is currently serving as judge on the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Ellis served in the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966, and was educated at Princeton University where he earned a B.S.E. in 1961. He then earned a J.D. from Harvard University in 1969, and a Diploma in Law in 1970 fr ...
Keith Ellison is (2006) US Congressman (D-MN) who happens to be Muslim. His own biography.
From Ellison's campaign website (accessed 5 Jan 2007; emphasis in blue added):
I belie ...
Binyamin (Benny) Elon (also transliterated as "Alon"; b. 1954) is (2003) chairman of the right-wing Moledet political party
in Israel. He succeeded Rehavam Zeevi when the latter
was assassinated in December 2001. His wife is Emuna Elon. ...
Mona Eltahawy is managing editor of Arabic Women's eNews, an
independent, non-profit news website that covers issues of importance to
women and their allies. Since its launch in April 2003, writers and
commentators from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Jordan have
contributed to the website's coverage of Arab and Muslim women's issues.
She is also a columnist for Asharq al-Awsat, ...
Steven Abram Emerson is a former freelance journalist turned antiterrorism expert who began making a name for himself in the mid-1990s as one of the key promoters of the idea that Islamic terrorists were actively operating on American soil. He is a self-styled Terrorologist.
Although he has been repeatedly criticized and exposed for producing faulty analyses and having a distinctly anti-I ...
Catherine Epstein teaches modern European history at Amherst College. She is the author of The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993), and she also serves as Associate Editor ...
Eliahu Epstein ... was, in 1948, designated by the Provisional Government of Israel as its Special Representative in the United States heading the Mission of the Provisional Government of Israel
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Noura Erakat (@4noura on Twitter), is Palestinian-American human rights attorney and activist, is (2013) an Abraham L. Freedman Fellow at Temple University, Beasley School of Law, and a contributing editor of Jadaliyya. Noura Erakat is a legal and grassroots organizer with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She can be reached at legal@endtheoccupation.org.
She is a law graduate of ...
(Col. Ret.) Dr.
Reuven Erlich (1946-) ... an Israeli official who has served for many years in the Israeli Ministry of Security in the capacity of advisor and specialist on Lebanese affairs.
Erlich was born in Poland in 1946. He served in the IDF Intelligence Corps, mainly as an analyst specializing Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian affairs. He retired in 1994 with the rank of colonel aft ...
Michael D. Evans is an evangelist, writer, and founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team, whose mission is "to guard, defend and protect the Jewish people – until the redeemer comes to Zion." Among its supporters are televangelist Pat Robertson, and Tim LaHaye, author of the best-selling "Left Behind" no ...
Dr. Zion Evrony was the Israeli ambassador in Ireland from 2006 to 2010. He presented his Letters of Credence to the President at Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin on 12 September 2006. Previously he had been an Israeli Consul General in the United States, stationed in Houston. He was replaced by Boaz Modai in August 2010 ...
The late Dr. Marion Farouk-Sluglett, born in 1936, lived in Iraq between 1955 and 1963, and taught Middle Eastern Politics at
universities in Britain and the United States.
...
Pnina Feiler (also transliterated as "Failer" or "Fieler"), born Pnina Naijdorf in Lodz, Poland, in 1923, is the mother of Dror Feiler. At the urging of a Zionist uncle who lived in the United States, she and her mother moved to Palestine in 1938.
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George Feldenkreis was born in Cuba in 1935 to parents who were Jewish immigrants from Poland. As a teenager, he was very active in Jewish organizations and began raising funds for a summer camp for Zionist children in Havana. Mr. Feldenkreis was also active in the United Jewish Appeal, the Israel Bonds Organization and headed Betar, the youth arm of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement f ...
Noah Feldman (1970-)
is a professor at Harvard Law School.
Previously, he was a NYU Professor of Law. He
was appointed in 2003 by the Coalition Provisional Authority as chief U.S. advisor to Iraq for the writing of the country’s new
constitution. Feldman is an Orientalist , someone interpreting Islamic/Arab society. On 7 Dec 2006, Harvard Law School announced that Feldman woul ...
Jeffrey Feldman was (2004-2008) the US ambassador to Lebanon. He is (2009) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
From the US embassy biography:
Jeffrey D. Feltman Biography
Ambassador of the United States to the R ...
Benjamin B. Ferencz (born 1920) was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army at the Nuremberg Trials. He has stated that United States President George W. Bush should stand trial for war crimes in connection with the Iraq War.
Ferencz was ...
Carlos Rico Ferrat is (2007) Mexico's deputy foreign minister for North American Affairs and outgoing ambassador to Israel. He used to be the Mexican consul to Boston, MA.
From a Mexican embassy biography:
Undersecretary for No ...
Arthur J. Finkelstein (b. 1945) is a hard line right-wing zionist propagandist.
On 16 January 2006, Jeff Halper, an Israeli-American anthropology professor and anti-occupation activist stated:
(33:35 min mark) Casting yourself as a victim is so effective politically, because, again, you are off the hook, you cannot be held accountable – so that Israel didn't want to ...
Elizabeth Anne Finn (1825-1921), nee McCaul, was born in Warsaw where her father was a missionary working for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews. She was the wife of James Finn, British consul in Jerusalem from 1 ...
Yehudah Leib Fischmann (alias Maimon; 1875-1962) was born in Bessarabia (part of the Russian Empire).
He met Rabbi Yitzhak Reines, founder of the Mizrachi religious Zionist movement in 1900 and took part in the movement's founding conference in Vilna. He participated in the second and subsequent Zionist congresses ...
Dr. Maurice Fishberg (1872-1934) was a Russian-born Jewish American physician, anthropologist and author ... tuberculosis expert at Montefiore Hospital in New York ... medical examiner for the United Hebrew Charities at the start of the 20th century ... phrenologis ...
Michele Flournoy is a former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy of the United States -- the highest ranking female policy in the Pentagon. She is a neocon, and a signatory to the PNAC. ...
Jamie Fly is (2009) the policy director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a neocon think-tank/lobby group.
From the FPI profile:
Jamie oversees the Foreign Policy's Initiative's policy programs.
From 2005-2009, he served in the Bush Administration at the ...
Rabbi Yehezkel Fogel is (2004) the director of the ultra-Orthodox campus of Kiryat Ono College.
He was born in Romania, in the 1940s, on the Hungarian side. In 1959, his parents immigrated to Israel and opened a business in Tel Aviv selling canned goods.
As a youth, Fogel went to yeshiva high school and afterward switched to the Hebron Yeshiva. There he adopted the ultra-Orthodox ide ...
Victoria Fontan is a French political scientist (Peace and Development Studies) and journalist. She teaches: Peace and Conflict Studies; Terrorism, Insurgency and the Media;
Conflict Management; and Quantum Peace.
Fontan experience first hand the moral and intellectual malaise in the United States at Colgate Univ. Here she encountered obstacles to teaching and publishing. She wa ...
Abe Fortas (1910-1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure over an an arrangement with the family foundation of a former client, Louis Wolfson, a Wall Street financier, for an annual cash retainer to continue for his ...
Philip Weiss writes:
Richard J. Fox also lives in Philadelphia. A real-estate king, he heads the Jewish Policy Center, which the
ubiquitous Brooks directs and which opposes the peace process in Israel/Palestine. Its mission statement addresses "foreign policies that impact the Jewish community in the Un ...
Abraham H. Foxman is (2003) National Director of the
Anti-Defamation League in New York.
He was was born in Vilna, Lithuania, in May 1940, and was hidden during World War II in the home of a Christian family. Afterwards, he and his parents migrated to the United States.
Read what Lenni Brenner ...
David R. Francis (1850–1927) was an American politician. He served in various positions including Mayor of Saint Louis, the 27th Governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia between 1916 and 1917, during the Russian Revolution of 1917. ...
Leo Frank (1884-1915) was a Jewish-American businessman whose lynching on 16 August 1915 by a lynch party in Marietta, Georgia, turned the spotlight on antisemitism in the United States and led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
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Felix Frankfurter, the son of a Jewish merchant, was born in Vienna, Austria, on 15th November, 1882. Twelve years later the family emigrated to the United States. After graduating from New York City College in 1902, Frankfurter entered Harvard Law School.
In 1906 Henry Stimson, a New York attorney, recruited Frankfurter as his assistant. When President William Howard Taft appointed ...
Lawrence Anthony (Larry) Franklin was (August 2004) a mid-level Pentagon official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
At that time, he was being investigated on charges of passing classified material regarding internal policy deliberations on Iran to two staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), who in turn provided the information to Israel.
Frankli ...
Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman,Jr. (1943-) was the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992. He is also president of the Middle East Policy Council. In February 2009 United States President Barack Obama named him chair of the National Intelligence Council.
Ray McGovern states:
Just before the March 2003 attack, Chas Freeman , U.S. ambassador to Saud ...
Dr. Herbert Friedenwald (1870-1944) ... of New York ... was secretary of the American Jewish Committee for seven years from its inception in November 1906, and editor of the American Jewish Year Book from 1908 to 1912.
From the 1905 year book:
Friedenwald, Herbert. Author. Born September 20, 1870, ...
The following is taken from a biography in Al Bushra. Dr. Friend explains the background to his current attitude to
Zionism as follows:
I am Dr. Bill Friend also known as Zevei. I was born in The Bronx, NY in 1947. I became Bar Mitzvah in November
...
David Frost was a BBC TV presenter/interviewer who:
interviewed not only the six most recent British prime ministers and the six most recent presidents of the United States, but also Israeli leaders Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin…
He will attend the November 2005 annual Balfour Dinner of the Israel, in Tel Aviv as a guest of honor.
Comm ...
Chicago Israel Philanthropic Fund ... a nonprofit organization founded in 2008 by Asher Lopatin, Daniel Mattio and Rosie Mattio to take 100 families from the Unite ...
Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese-Maronite-born crass zionist propagandist who tours the US sponsored by zionist organizations to smear "Muslims and Islam". She is listed as president and
founder of the right-wing American Congress for Truth. In her official biography she states the principal objective of her organization:
" An Urgent Warning to the West
&nbs ...
A naturalized citizen of the United States,
Arun Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, founded (in 1991) and is (2004) president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Memphis, Tennessee.
He lives in the United States.
...
Michael John Gapes , (aka Mike Gapes) (born 4 Sept 1952) is a British politician. He is the Labour
and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Ilford South. In 2006, he held the influential position of Chairman
of House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Gapes is a prominent Zionist and pro-war voice in the
party; he is the former vice-chairman of Labour Friends of Israel.& ...
Dr. Jorge Garcia-Granados (1900-1961) was involved in the 1944 revolution which overthrew the Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico.
He became Guatemala’s Ambassador to the United States, and the country’s representative at the formation of the United Nations. He was a member of the ...
Leslie Howard Gelb (1937-) is a former chairman of the United States Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a former editor and columnist for The New York Times.
See what Robert Fisk has to say about ...
Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was born in St. Louis on 8th November, 1908.
She attended Bryn Mawr but left in 1927 to begin a career as a writer. Her first articles appeared in the New Republic, but determined to become a foreign correspondent, she moved to France to work for the United Press bureau in Paris.
While in Europe she became active in the pacifist movement and wrote about h ...
Dan Gertler (b. 1973) is an Israeli businessman, the founder and President of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies. He has large interests in diamonds and copper mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
He is a grandson of Moshe Schnitzer, first President of the ...
Tom Getman, former legislative director to Sen. Mark Hatfield (who was elected to the United States Senate in 1968 as an outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam),
is director of World Vision Palestine.
...
Farid N. Ghadry ("Frank") is the co-founder and current president of the Reform Party of Syria , a US-based Syrian opposition party. He is the neocons' answer for regime change in Syria – he is the Syrian "Ahmad Chalabi". He is a Sunni Syrian who moved to Lebanon when he was 8 years-old, and then moved to the US aged 11. (although there is some confusion about his biographical details ...
Emile Ghuri (Ghoury) (1907-1984) ... Greek Orthodox Palestinian activist
... was Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee (AHC), the official leadership of the Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate. He was also the general secretary of the ...
Francis E. Gigot ... American Catholic clerical intellectual who was active around the start of the 20th century ... exegete at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, and later
St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie. ... In 1900, he was teaching at
St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, where he published his General Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures . ... Other sources write o ...
David G. Gil ... pacifist Israeli expatriate ... prof in Brandeis U
In 1970/1, Gil invited Uri Davis to join him as a PhD student but the offer was blocked by t ...
Naeim Giladi is an Iraqi Jew from Iraq who was
born in 1929 and, as a young man, emigrated to Israel.
Giladi and his wife, Rachel, who is also Iraqi, are now
U.S. citizens and live in New York City.
By choice, they no longer hold Israeli citizenship. “
"I am Iraqi", he told an interviewer, "born in Iraq, my culture still
Iraqi Arab, my religion Jewish, my citizenship American".
...
Eytan Gilboa (Ph.D. Harvard University) is a Senior Researcher at the BESA Center. He is Professor of Political
Science Studies & Communications at Bar-Ilan University, as well as Director of the PhD Program. Prof. Gilboa is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Communication, International
Communication, Communication and Conflict Online. He is a commentator on Israeli and global televi ...
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
(1877-1965) was an American academic and the sole female US delegate to the San Francisco United Nations Charter Conference in April 1945.
In the 1940s, when she was president of Barnard College and a member of the board of the American University in Beirut,
she organized the ...
Guy Gillette (1879-1973) was a Democratic Congressman and, later, US Senator from Iowa. He was president of a Zionist pressure group called the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945-1948.
On 13 September 1945, he made public the fact that, on 31 August 1945, President Truman had written to Prime Minister Cleme ...
Dr. Max Girsdansky (c. 1864-1932), a New York neurologist, was elected secretary of the Jewish Congress Organization Committee when it was established on 21 March 1915. Apparently, he was also one of the founders of the Socialist Party in the US.
...
Jacob Glatstein (1896-1971), a Polish-born American Yiddish author, was born as Yankev Glatshteyn in Lublin and died in New York. In 1920 he helped establish the Inzikhist (“Introspectivist”) literary movement. In later years he was one of the outstanding figures in mid-20th-century American Yiddish literature.
Glatstein immigrated to the United States in 1914 and studied law at New ...
Andrew Glazer is (2011) a producer for Dan Rather Reports, is a weekly news television programme hosted by former CBS news anchor Dan Rather that airs on HDNet, a general interest television channel in the United States. ...
S.D. Goitein (1900 - 1985) was Chairman of the School of
Oriental Studies of Hebrew University.
(The surname is derived from that of the town of Kojetein in
Moravia.)
Here is a eulogy by Prof. Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University:
Shelomo Dov Goitein - educator, Arabist, historian, Jewish ethnographer, master of the thousands of documents from the Cairo Geniza, and greatest ...
From his RAND Corporation biography:
Charles Goldman
Charles A. Goldman is a Senior Economist and Associate Director, RAND Education. He specializes in the economics of education. He and several colleagues are currently leading a large effort to reform the educat ...
Shimon Goldman (1859-1918). Born in Poland, and while still a child migrated with his family to London. Came to Palestine in 1898 and was appointed director of the moshavah Benei Yehudah in the Golan. Owing to financial difficulties left the country for the United States. ...
Reverend Stephen Goldstein is the Assistant General Secretary for the Mission Personnel Program Unit for the General Board of Global Ministries. He is in his twentieth year of service with GBGM. Since joining the GBGM staff he has been in various capacities and in different configurations working for and with United Methodist missionaries. From 1987 until 1996, he served as Executive Secretary ...
Richard Goldstone (1938-) was (2003) one of three Jewish judges serving on South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court.
He has (2004) retired, but, in 2009, he headed the
United Nations Fact Finding Commission on the Gaza Conflict
He is the former chief prosecutor for the United Nations int ...
Amy Goodman hosts Pacifica Radio's daily newsmagazine, Democracy Now! , and co-host's WBAI's morning show Wake Up Call. She was the 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award and the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for the radio documentary, "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Military Dictatorship," which she co- ...
Gustav Gottheil (1827–1903) American Reform rabbi, b. Prussia. He served as assistant (1855–60) in the Berlin Reform Temple and as rabbi (1860–73) in Manchester, England. From 1873 until his retirement in 1899 he was assistant rabbi, and then rabbi, of Temple Emanu-El, New York City. His influence on Reform Judaism in the United States was great; he was the founder of several Jewish societies an ...
Alfred Gottschalk, born in Germany in 1930, came to the United States in 1939 as a refugee.
He is the Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He served as Distinguished Professor of Bible and Jewish Religious Thought and is the John and Marianne Slade Prof ...
Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study
in the School of Historical Studies at Princeton, has had a far-reaching
and profound influence on the study of Islamic art and architecture. A
native of Strasbourg, France, Grabar was born into an intellectual
environment fostered by a highly-intellectual family that included his
father, André Grabar, an eminent scholar in ...
Mike Gravel (born 1930), is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, having served for two terms, from 1969 to 1981. He is primarily known for his efforts in ending the draft following the Vietnam War and for having put the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971. He is currently (2007) a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926 in New York City) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor making speeches and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. His WikiPedia ...
Adrian Grima, a lecturer at the University of Malta, has published books and articles about Maltese Literature and about the Mediterranean and has read papers and poetry at conferences in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean. In 1999, he published It-Trumbettier, a prize-winning book of poetry in Maltese. Some of his poems have appeared in anthologies in Europe and Israel. His second coll ...
Andrei Gromyko, the son of peasants, was born near Minsk (then in the Russian Empire, but now part of Belarus) in 1909. After studying agriculture and economics he became a research scientist at the Soviet Academy of Science. He later joined the diplomatic service and went to Washington during the Second World War.
In 1943 Gromyko was appointed as the Soviet ambassador in the United States. I ...
Bentzi Gruber is (2009) a colonel in the reserves and deputy commander of the armored division. He is also a PR-hasbara specialist for the IDF, and he is helping justify the Gazan Massacre of 2009.
Amos Harel report ...
Ernest Henry Gruening (1887–1974) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969.
Born in New York City, Gruening graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912. He then forsook medicine to pursue journalism. Initially a reporter fo ...
Kenneth W. Grundy is a professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Grundy received the Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1963 and has been on the CWRU faculty since 1966. He also has served as visiting senior lecturer at Makerere University College, Univ ...
Henry Anatole Grunwald .(died in February 2005 at age 82) ..
Grunwald was editor-in-chief of all Time Inc.'s publications from June 1979 until 1987, as well as a member of the company's Board of Directors. Before that (1968-1977), he was managing editor of Time magazine.
Mr. Grunwald served as United States Ambassador to Austria from 1988 to 1990, having been appointed by Pr ...
Rabbi Hugo Gryn (1928-1996) was born in Czechoslovakia, into a prosperous Jewish family in the market town of Berehovo.
In 1938 Hungarian troops moved into Berehovo. The following year they were replaced by the German Army. In 1944 the Jews in the town were forced into the ghetto. Six weeks later the Gryn family were deported to Auschwitz. Hugo and his mother survived but his brother ...
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (born March 28, 1921, died between 1943 and 1945) was a political assassin and victim of the Holocaust.
His parents escaped in 1939 to the Soviet Union. After the war they migrated to Israel. Sendel Grynszpan, Herschel's father, was present at the Israeli premiere in 1952 of Sir Michael Tippett's oratorio about Grynszpan, A Child of Our Time. His mother, Ri ...
Mya Guarnieri, a Tel Aviv-based journalist and writer, is a citizen of both Israel and the United States. She holds a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida State University.
A regular contributor to The Jerusalem Post and The National, her writing has also appeared in Outlook India– India's Newsweek subsidiary– as well as Haaretz, The Jewish Daily Forward, Maan N ...
A native of Provence, Professor Guieu earned both his Licence-ès-Lettres and his Maîtrise in French Language and Literature, with a minor in Phonetics and Linguistics, at the Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille). After joining the French student movement of May 1968, he came to the United States to ...
Rohan Kumar Gunaratna (born 1961) is a Singapore-based "terrorism expert" at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) where is currently an Associate Professor and head of its
International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR). As a Sri Lankan, his original area of expertise is in the Tamil Tigers, a militant Tamil separatist group. However, sin ...
Dr. Jeroen Gunning studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and at Durham University and the University of Oxford, and is now lecturer in the Department of International Politics, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Gunning is Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) and Lecturer in (Critical) Terrorism Stud ...
Adolph Gurevitz (1907 - 1972), a distant cousin of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, was a Russian Jew who studied and lectured history and Semitic languages at the Sorbonne in Paris.
He divided his time between Palestine and the United States. Gurevitz, who hebraized his name to Gur-Horon, gained a few young followers who ...
William Haber (c. 1899-1989) ...
born in Rumania ... moved to the United States when he was 10 years old
... was (1948) Adviser on Jewish Affairs to the High Commissioner in Germany ...
Claudette Habesch ... Palestinian Christian who toured the United States from coast to coast between January 6 and January 24, 1998 with Nahla Assali and Michal Shohat ... The three women were recruited by ...
Professor Adam Habib is a Research Professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal. Professor Habib has a PhD in Politics from the City University of New York. He has researched and published extensively on democratic transitions and consolidations, South African political economy, state-party relations, institutional transformation, higher education reform, and ...
The
Habonim youth movement was a Zionist youth movement which aimed to foster Jewish culture, the Hebrew language, and pioneering in Palestine, was founded in 1930 (some sources say 1928) in London, by Wellesley Aron, Chaim Lipshitz and ...
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in the History of Religion from Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, in 1979, and is the former president of the Middle East Studies Association. Dr. Haddad specializes in issues of contemporary Islam and has focused in particular on Islam in the United States. ...
Shurat HaDin , founded in 2003 by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, is a right-wing Israeli NGO which uses frivolous law-suits to disrupt human rights campaigns, or as its own website puts it, "bankrupting terrorism, one law-suit at a time".
Shurat HaDin describes itself as follows:
"Shurat HaDi ...
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (born Dec. 1924; died Feb. 2010) was a general in the United States Army who commanded an infantry division in Vietnam, then returned stateside in 1969 to become a member of Henry Kissinger's national security council staff. Haig helped South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to negotiate the final cease-fire talks in 1972.
From 1973 until 1974, Haig ser ...
Line Halvorsen is a documentary film maker, and made the documentary USA vs Al-Arian
Line Halvorsen (b. 1969) has worked as a director and editor on more than 20 documentaries and travel series for
Norwegian and International television since 1997. Many of these have focused on human rights issu ...
Thor Halvorssen Mendoza (b. 1976) is president and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation. He is
Venezuelan neocon.
"A lifelong civil liberties advocate and film producer, Mr. Halvorssen is President of the Human
Rights Foundation. Mr. Halvorssen was the first Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of
the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a free speech group he ...
Kamal Hamad was considered the most senior collaborator with Israel. Hamad, a contractor who built apartment buildings in Gaza (one of them the former home of Moussa Arafat), was pardoned in the early 1990s by the late Palestinian Authority chair Yasser Arafat. But in January 1996 Hamad gave his Hamas activist nephew, Osama Hamad, the cellular phone packed with explosives that blew up when suici ...
Muna Hamzeh is a Palestinian journalist and writer.
Her father was a Muslim from Haifa; her mother was a Christian from Beit Jala, and both her parents were half-Palestinian, half-Lebanese. She was
born in Jerusalem in 1959.
In 1964, her family set up home in Amman, where Muna went to school.
After graduating from high school in 1978, Muna left Amman for the United States in order to study ...
Nathalie Handal (1969-) is a poet, writer, playwright and literary researcher of Palestinian and Lebanese background. Born in Haiti, she has lived in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America.
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Earl Grant Harrison (1899-1955) was an American attorney, academician, and public servant.
In 1945, Harrison was the United States representative on the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees; he was instructed by President Truman to inquire into the situation effecting displaced persons, particularly Jews, in the ...
Dennis Hastert (Rep. Illinois) is (2005) the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. As such, he is second (after the Vice President) in line to succeed to the U.S. presidency in the case of death or resignation of the President. He has occupied this position since 6 January 1999.
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Senator Daniel Oren Hastings (1874 - 1966) ... a Senator from Delaware; born near Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., March 5, 1874; was educated under private tutorship; moved to Wilmington, Del., in 1894; attended the law department of Columbian (now George Washington) University, Washington, D.C.; admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; served as deputy attor ...
John Baldwin Hay (1846-1912) was appointed by President Grant in January 1872, as United States Concul General in Beirut. Due to ill health, he retired in 1880 and settled in Jaffa, where he died in April 1912. He was a grand-nephew of the US President Madison.
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Ibrahim Hazboun (1878-1948) ...
In 1913 Ibrahim Hazboun was living in Haiti as part of a sizeable community of Syrians or “Turcos” whose numbers at that time have been estimated to be as high as 15,000.6 Born in Bethlehem in 1878, he had spent much of his childhood travelling the world with his father and uncle, staying for extended periods in France, Italy, the United States, El Salvad ...
Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Maryland, a student at Cooper Union, a college in New York, who was a visiting student at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, lost her eye when an Israeli soldier shot a gas canister at her during a demonstration at ...
The Henry Jackson Society(HJS) is a British neocon think tank and political action committee. HJS was founded in Cambridge, England, on 11 March 2005, and was launched in the Houses of Parliament, on 22 November 2005, by Brendan Simms of Cambridge University in honor of the late Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, the Democratic ...
Christian Herter
(1895–1966) was an American politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1956, and Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.
Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and expatriate parents, Albert Herter and Adele McGinnis, and attended the École Alsatienne there (1901-1904) before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning Sch ...
The son and grandson of Hasidic rabbis, Hertzberg (died 17 April 2006 at the age of 84) immigrated from Poland to the United States in 1926 with his parents at the age of five. (His maternal
family were all killed by the Nazis.)
Hertzberg's family lived in New York for a year, then moved to Youngstown, Ohio, then to Baltimore. As a teenager, he was schooled in the Talmud and Hasidic li ...
Maurice Beck Hexter (1891-1990). born in in Cincinnati Ohio, ... a major fund-raiser for Jewish causes in British-mandate Palestine and across the United States ...
Hexter graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1912. In 1913, he entered the office of the United Jewish Charities of Cincinnati. He became the director of the Federation of Jewish Charities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1914 ...
Rabbi
Marvin Hier wanted to establish a West Coast Jewish institution as a counterweight to the well-known Jewish institutions and synagogues on the East Coast of the United States and conceived the idea of borrowing Simon Wiesenthal's name.
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Raul Hilberg (born June 1926; d. Aug 2007) is one of the best-known and most distinguished of genocide historians. His three-volume, 1,273-page The Destruction of the European Jews is regarded as the seminal study of the Nazi Final Solution.
Until his death in August 2007,
renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, wh ...
Godfrey Hodgson an associate fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, was director of the Reuters' Foundation Programme at Oxford University, and before that the Observer's correspondent in the United States and foreign editor of the Independent.
His earlier books include:
The Myth of American Exceptionalism (Yale University Press, 2009);
The World Turned ...
Anat Hoffman ... secular Israeli woman ... Israeli peace activist ... former J'lem municipal councilor involved in anti-discrimination campaigns
... member of Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) ... involved (2009) in supreme court challenege to segregation on Israeli buses ... chairwoman of Women of the Wall
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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (d. December 2010) was an integrant of the U.S. foreign policy elite with a long history working in the government. He is also a member of AIPAC.
Career
Perseus LLC – Vice Chairman
Credit Suis ...
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (born January 1, 1922)
has been a Democratic member of the United States Senate since 1966,
representing South Carolina.
Hollings was born in Charleston, S.C. He went to the Citadel and received a B.A. in 1942; he later attended the University of South Carolina and r ...
General Patrick Hurley, the secretary of war in the Hoover administration , ... In 1943, General Patrick Hurley, the personal representative of President Roosevelt, visited Palestine on a fact-finding mission. He reported that many of the Jews in Palestine preferred to settle eventually in the United States or Western Europe after the war. He noted, however, that in contrast the Zionist leadersh ...
Deena R. Hurwitz the faculty of the University of Virginia in 2003 as director of the human rights program and the International Human Rights Law Clinic. From 2000-03, Hurwitz was the Robert M. Cover/ Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in ...
Jon Ihle, originally from Long Island, New York, works as a freelance journalist in Ireland. Ihle is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, and holds an MA in English from Temple University in Philadelphia.
For several years (as of 2005), he has been based in Greystones, County Wicklow.
He has two blogs, called ...
The International Association of Genocide Scholars is "a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, and advance policy studies on prevention of genocide." Do not confuse this organization with ...
The Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique was incorporated under French law, March 3, 1881. Declared bankrupt and dissolved by Tribunal Civil de la Seine, February 4, 1889. Assets and property vested in Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama, incorporated October 20, 1894. Compagnie Nouvelle purchased by the United States, April 23, 1904, under authority of the Panama Canal (Spooner) Act ...
Radu Ioanid is director of International Archival Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Born in Bucharest, he was educated in Romania and in France, and now lives in Bethesda, Maryland. ...
Rufus Daniel Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, QC, (1860–1935), was an English politician and jurist.
Gerald Isaacs was his son.
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Wilfrid B. Israel (1899-1943), born in London, was a member of an important Berlin Jewish family and a strong supporter of Zionism.
Christopher Isherwood based his character Bernhard Landauer
in Goodbye to Berlin on Israel. On pages 173-174, of ...
Israel21c is a Zionist propaganda outfit which describes itself thus:
ISRAEL21c is a not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of California that works with existing institutions and the media to inform Americans about 21st century Israel, its people, its institutions and its contributions to global society. ISRAEL21c creates, aggregates and broadly disseminates h ...
Israel Alliance is a spinoff of Stand With Us. Israel Alliance is more directed for hasbara activities on campuses across the United States. Here is the Univ. of New Mexico chapter.
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Charles Issawi (1916-2000), an economic historian of the Middle East, was Bayard E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies emeritus at Princeton University.
Born in Cairo in 1916 to Greek Orthodox, Syrian parents, he was educated at Victoria College, Alexandria, and Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was a friend of ...
Aya Jabareen ...
This article describes the ordeal Jabareen has to endure to obtain an education:
Aya Jabareen, a 16-year-old Palestinian teenager who lives in Bethany, which is near Ma'aleh Adumim, is one of
thousands of Palestinian students who fight every day for their right to get to s ...
Eri Jabotinsky (born 1910) ... son of Vladimir Jabotinsky ... was member of Irgun Zvai Le'umi high command, died at age 59
Eri Jabotinsky was working for the United States in Turkey as an observer of an American initiative to save the Jewish people of Europe but he was also involved with radical Jewish groups in Palestine, then under British mandate. Jabotinsky is subsequently accused ...
Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892-1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. ...
Edward Jacobson (1891-1955), an American Zionist, was a friend and business associate of Harry S. Truman.
The Truman library contains some of his papers.
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Dan Jacobson (1929-) is a South African-born writer living in Britain. He says in this article that Vladimir Jabotinsky came to lunch at his family's home in Kimberley in 1938
Jacobson was born in Johannesburg to Jewish Lithuanian p ...
Kahlil Jahshan is the Vice-President of the Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Jahshan was born in Nazareth, Palestine, six days before the establishment of Israel. His family were Melkite Christians, a Greek Catholic sect. He attended Catholic schools, but when he was 18 years old, he was baptized in the Sea of Galilee and became a member of the Nazareth Church of Christ.
J ...
Andrew Jakubowicz is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology in
Sydney. He was born in Sydney, the son of European refugees who had arrived in Australia in 1946 from Poland via China. He grew up in Sydney and attended the universities of Sydney and New South Wales. His doctorate is in urban sociology/ ethnic relations from UNSW.
He has worked at universities in England, the ...
Philip Caryl Jessup (1897 - 1986) was a U.S. diplomat, scholar, and jurist.
Jessup served as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) conference in 1943 and the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944. He was a member of the American delegation to the San Francisco United Nations charter conference in 1945. He was also the United States represe ...
The
Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) had its founding Convention in February 1934 in Manhattan.
Chaired by Baruch Vladeck, the Committee was formed by leaders of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the Amal ...
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is a zionist lobbying/political group that brings together Israeli and US military/police and policy planners. It is also a haven for ziocons.
Profile
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is a "non-profit, non-partisan and nonsectaria ...
Robert John is a diplomatic historian and public educator through writing, lecturing, and broadcasting. A member of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, OAH, and an honorary life member of Yale U. Political Union, after his first lecture to service officers at the Army & Navy Club in Washington, he was presented with a citation from the Military Order of the World Wars: "For h ...
The American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation, known also as the Agro-Joint, was established by the Joint Distribution Committee as its operating agency in the Soviet Union on 17 July 1924 with the aim of carrying on and developing on a large scale the land settlement of Jews in the Soviet Union. The Agro-Joint ...
James Logan Jones Jr. (born 19 Dec 1943) is the current United States National Security Advisor and a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general. During his military career, he served as Commander, United States European Command (COMUSEUCOM) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) from 2003 to 2006 and as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003. Jon ...
From the MEI website:
Edward S. Walker, Jr.
President
Ambassador Edward S. Walker became President and CEO of the Middle East Institute (MEI) on May 14, 2001. Since assuming the position, Mr. Walker has consistently urged for restraint on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocated for a return to peace negotiations, ...
Jesse Jackson Jr. is the son of Jesse Jackson, and is a US Congressman for Illinois.
From his wikipedia biography:
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is a member of the United States House of Representatives
representing the 2nd District of Illinois (map) ...
Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. (born 26 March 1960) is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah. He also served in the administrations of four United States presidents and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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Senator Joseph Biden is a self-avowed Zionist, the kind of Zionist whose support for Israel is "almost genetic" as he put it. He says the United States needs to be a "smart" rather than an "honest broker." He says that Middle East progress comes only when the Arabs know there is "no daylight between us and Israel." Both when a member of the Senate and as Vice President helping Israel was his h ...
Shabtai Kalmanovitch (c. 1947 - 2009), whose job at one point was to ease
the resettlement of Russian emigrants in Israel, was arrested in December 1987 and charged with spying for the USSR. He was found guilty and sentenced to ...
In 1989, Israeli attorney Amnon Zichroni received permission to negotiate an agreeme ...
Oliver Kamm is a columnist for the Times. He is a founding member of the "Henry Jackson Society", a British neocon think-tank/lobbying group. Kamm is also affiliated to Democratiya – the publication of the Euston Manifesto, another British neocon group. For some reason he postures as a "leftist" despite the fact that he is rabid zionist / neocon.
According to a biographical note ...
Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh (born in the Galilee in 1937) is a founding member of the Galilee Society for Health Research and Services.
In 1960, he went to study medicine in the United States. In 1970, having obtained Harvard degrees in medicine and public health and turning down several lucrative offers in America, h ...
Hakam Kanafani is (2004) CEO of Palestine Cellular Communications (JAWWAL) in Ramallah, Palestine. After completing his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the United States, Mr. Kanafani joined the Information Technology team at Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Mr. Kanafani then moved to Egypt where he managed MM Sons Group Communications Technology ...
Major General Moshe Kaplinsky (1957-) is a former commander of the Israeli Army in the West Bank. He joined Better Place in January 2008 as CEO of Better Place Israel, the Israeli Branch of Better Place.
Prior to joining Better Place Israel, Kaplinsky, among other positions, served as commander of the Say ...
Eliane Karp (1955-) is the wife of former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo. Her Wikipedia profile. Eliane Chantal Karp Fernenbug was born in Paris to Jewish parents; her father was born in Poland and her mother in Belgium. As a teen, she was a member of the left-wing Zionist youth movement Hashom ...
Former brigadier-general Janis Leigh Karpinski (1953-) retired as a United States Army Colonel in the 800th Military Police Brigade. She had been demoted from Brigadier General in the aftermath of the Abu Ghrain torture and abuse scandal, for dereliction of duty, making a material misrepresentation to investigators, and failure to obey a lawful order. She was the commander of three large US- and ...
Miki Kashtan is a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She conducts public workshops and trainings throughout the United States.
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Ilana (Lani) Kass, nee Dimant, an Israel-American who served as a major in the Israeli air force, is the top civilian adviser to the US Air Force. She is married to Norman Kass.
She has a 1971 B.A. in political science and Russian area studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a 1976 joint Ph.D. ...
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (b. July 29, 1932) represented the state of Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of Alfred M. Landon, who was the Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican candidate for president. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954 where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She received her graduate degree fr ...
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born 29 July 1932) formerly represented the state of Kansas in the United States Senate, having served from 1978 to 1997. She was the daughter of Alf Landon, who was the Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican candidate for president. Landon won only in Maine and Vermont, having also lost Kansas to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
She graduated from th ...
Theodore Kattouf is president of America-Mideast Educational and Training Services.
He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from the Pennsylvania State University in 1968, he served for 3-1/2 years in the United States Army infantry, attaining the rank of Captain. He joined the Foreign Servic ...
Theodore (Ted) Kattouf, a Lebanese-American, is a former United States Ambassador to the UAE and Syria.
Currently (2009), he is president and CEO of AMIDEAST ...
Born in Krakow,
Amnon Katz (1935 - 2000) escaped the Nazis in Poland with his family when he was four years old and settled in the Middle East. He spent his childhood and young adulthood in Israel, was educated at Hebrew University and Weizmann Institute in Israel, before moving to the United States in 1961, in ...
Nabil M. Kaylani ... professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
He has been a member of the College of Liberal Arts at RIT since 1966. He holds a BA from the American University at Beirut, Lebanon and both an MA and Ph.D. from Clark, Universit ...
George Frost Kennan (1904 - ) was for many years a member of the United States Foreign Service. As a foreign policy planner in the late 1940s and 1950s, he is considered to have been the "architect" of the Cold War with his call for containment of the Soviet Union. His great-uncle was the explorer and writer George Kennan (1845-1924).
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Kossuth Kennan and F ...
Bichara Khader is a professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Louvain as well as director of the Arab Study and Research Centre (CERMAC) in Belgium. His brother, Naim Khader, was assinated by Mossad in Belgium in 1981.
Prof. Khader studied his degree in Political, Economic and Social ...
Salah Khalaf (1933-1991) (nom-de-guerre Abu Iyad) had to flee in 1948 from Jaffa. Trained in Gaza from 1951. Studied in Cairo in the 1950s, founder, member and Arafat's assistant of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Egypt (19 ...
Zaid Khalil is a member of Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now (SUSTAIN).
When asked to describe himself, here is he replied:
"I'm an American national of Palestinian ethnicity. I describe myself that way because Palestine is not a sovereign state, and I was born in the US, so cultu ...
An ethnic Pashtun, Zalmay Khalilzad was born in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.
He first went to the United States as a high school exchange student.
The son of a government worker who moved the family to Kabul, Khalilzad, from an upper-class family, studied at American University in Beirut and earned a doctorate in 1979 at the University of Chicago.
...
Amira Hass reports (31 Jan 2010):
The Interior
Ministry is demanding that a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem be deported for having spent
too many years in the United States. Elias Khayyo - who holds no foreign citizenship - has
been detained for three weeks at Givon incarceration facility in Ramle with other people deemed
illegal residents and slated for depor ...
Freda Kirchwey (1893–1976) was an American journalist, editor, and publisher. From 1933 to 1955, she was Editor of The Nation magazine.
... writer, editor, publisher, opinionmaker, feminist, wife, and mother--was a salient figure in twentieth-century America, a beacon for liberals and activists of her era. A journalist with The Nation from 1918 to 1955--owner, editor, and publishe ...
Dr. David Klatzker is Rabbi of Beth Tikvah-B'nai Jeshurun, Erdenheim, Pennsylvania, and serves as academic liaison in the United States for the America-Holy Land Project of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Jytte Klausen is a Danish-born scholar of politics who teaches at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
Klausen's Henry Jackon Society's profile for a talk on 10 December 2009:
Professor Jytte Klausen is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University and an affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard Univer ...
Richard Mifflin Kleberg (1887-1955) ... rancher and congressman ... He selected Lyndon B. Johnson as his first administrative assistant, thus providing Johnson with the opportunity to begin his own political career.
Kleberg was one of the wealthiest men in Texas. He inherited twenty percent interest in ...
Irena Klepfisz was born in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941 and spent the first few years of her life there until her father (Michal Klepfisz) smuggled her and her mother to the Aryan side in 1943. Her mother had Aryan pap ...
Amy Jean Klobuchar (born: 25 May 1960) is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party. She is the first elected female senator from Minnesota and is one of twenty female senators serving in the 113th United States Congress.
Glenn Greenwald reports ...
Edward Irving Koch (born 1924) was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. He is well known for his hawkish zionist proclivities.
Koch was born to a Jewish family in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. His father worked as a furrier. During the Great Depression, sales of fur coats and other luxury goods sharply declined, and the fa ...
Arthur Koestler (Sept. 1905, Budapest; March 1983) was a writer and "public intellectual" influential in the
post-1945 period when he veered from sympathizing with the left to attacking it. He could be called an early neocon.
From his university days he was a fervent zionist and a follower of Jabotinsky. Koestler also became infamous because
his participation in the Congress for Cultural Free ...
Hans Kohn was a historian, who was active in Zionist organizations.
Kohn was born in 1891, in what is now Czechoslovakia but was then part of Austria-Hungary. In 1923 he earned
the degree Doctor of Jurisprudence
from the German University of
Prague.
He moved to the United States in 1933. He was professor of
history at Smith College for 10
years and, then, from 1949, he was a professor o ...
James Thomas "Jim" Kolbe (born June 28, 1942) is a former zionist Republican member of the United States House of Representatives (R-Arizona), serving from 1985 to 2007. His wikipedia biography.
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Gabriel Kolko, born in 1932 in Paterson, New Jersey, is an American Marxist historian living in Canada.
In this article, he says of himself
In late 1949 I worked on a boat taking Jews from Marseilles to Haifa, Israel. Jews from Arab nations were in the front of the boat, Europeans in the rear. I was regarde ...
Thomas A. Kolsky has taught History and Political Science at Montgomery county Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania since 1971. He is also Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Ambler Campus.
A political humorist, caricaturist, and lover of classical music, Kolsky enjoys creating and sharing humor. His career in humor began at a very tender age. He was d ...
Hillel Kook (1915-2001), alias Peter Bergson, was born in Lithuania in 1915. He emigrated to Palestine with his family when he was ten years old.
In 1929 he joined the Haganah and when the Irgun was founded, he left the Haganah and joined the new organization.
Kook took the name Peter Bergson so as not to implicate his prominent family – his uncle,
...
Dr. Bernard Kouchner was born on November 1, 1939 in Avignon, France. In 1968, he went to work in Biafra. In 1970, he co-founded the Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), which was
awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, and then Medecins du Monde (Medicines of the World) the next decade. During the remaining 1980s, he organized several operations, including "A boat for Vietnam",
in wh ...
Martin Kramer, a hardline Zionist Israeli-American Jew, is editor of the Middle East Quarterly and past director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Is Kramer a trustworthy source of information?
Here is what ...
Dr. Joseph Hayyim Krimsky (1883-1971) ... was born in 1883 in the province of Kiev, Russia, and entered the United States in 1891. Educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and at New York University end Bellevue Medical College. ...
In November 1914, Krimsky called a meeting of Jewish public figures who formed an organization, the ...
Born in the United States,
Nathan Krystall acquired Zionist sympathies and, in 1992,
migrated to Israel where he became a citizen. By 1995, he had become an anti-Zionist and went to jail for refusing to serve in the Israel army.
See what Eqbal Ahmad thought of him.
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Philip Kurian, from Charleston, South Carolina, is (2004-5) a final-year undergraduate student at Trinity (part of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina) who is majoring in Public Policy Studies and Physics. He is a Benjamin N. Duke Scholar at the university.
In early October 2004, it was announced that he had been named the 2003-04 recipient of the Melcher Family Award for Excell ...
Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and peace activist.
A board member of Sabeel, he is also a co-founder of the human rights organizations Al-Haq and the ...
Michael S. Ladah was born in Jaffa. As a boy of 7, he had to flee with the rest of his family during the expulsion of Palestinians from the territories that became Israel. Later, he studied in the United States and worked in Saudi Arabia for the Aramco.
He can be reached at: mikeladah@hotmail.com
He has written a book of memoirs,
"Quicksand, Oil and Dreams: The Story of One of Five ...
Adila Laïdi-Hanieh is a cultural critic and writer with interest in Palestinian arts and cultural practices, modern Arab intellectual history, and cultural spaces and processes. Her academic work focuses on theories of ideology and postcolonial studies.
She published in 2008 the first cultural review of cont ...
The Office of Special Tasks, called LAKEM, is a group in the Israeli Ministry of Defense that has a special mandate to penetrate classified United States' defense programs and to obtain top-secret technologies. It is especially interested in data relating to Israel's nuclear programs.
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From a SpinProfile (2 Dec 2006):
Alyssa A. Lappen is a hardline right-wing zionist propagandist engaged in crass pro-Israel propaganda, although she likes to describe herself as an "investigative journalist", former editor
for mainstream magazines, or "a freelance journalist and poet, whose work frequently focuses on Jewish themes". Her articles often appear in hardli ...
Robert Israel Lappin is a trustee of the Jewish/zionist charity bearing his name.
Lappin's father, John Lappin, moved from Jerusalem to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1910 and, after working as a pedlar, turned to real estate investment, a business which Lappin himself also followed (see ...
Brian Lapping is a former journalist (started his career working as a journalist on The Guardian and The Financial Times ) who moved into documentary making in the 1980s (for Granada TV - UK); he is also a historian. In 1988 Lapping set up as an independent documentary producer with Norma Percy ( ...
Walter Zeev Laqueur (1921-) is a Holocaust historian and editor-in-chief of Yale's Holocaust Encyclopedia.
He was born in 1921 in Breslau but emigrated to Palestine in 1938.
In Palestine, he worked first on a kibbutz and then as a correspondent for the Hashomer Hatzair newspaper Al-Hamishmar and for The Jerusalem Post, before moving to the United States.
Today, he Lives today in L ...
William Leonard Laurence (1888–1977) was a Lithuanian born American journalist known for his science journalism writing of the 1940s and 1950s while working for the New York Times. He received two Pulitzer Prizes, and as the official journalist of the Manhattan Project was the only journalist to witness the Trinity test and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Laurence was born in Salantai, ...
Berel Lazar is chief rabbi of Russia. Rabbi Berel Lazar, who became a Russian citizen in 2000, was born in Milan and, according to the Interfax news agency, is a citizen of three countries in addition to Russia - Israel, Italy and the United States.
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Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) was born in New York City on December 11, 1882, to an Italian Catholic father and an observant Jewish mother, Irene Coen La Guardia. The couple had emigrated from Trieste to the United States in 1880.
Fiorello's first job was with the U.S. Embassy in Budapest in 1900. Later ...
Patrick Joseph Leahy is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was first elected to the Senate in 1974.
Memorable Quotes
The AJC is able to do things that nobody else can.
— Patrick Leahy at an AJC fund raising event in Los Angeles, October 2006.
The SourceWatch ...
Eric Lee, the founding editor of LabourStart, appears to be a left-Zionist.
Lee, who was born in New York City in 1955, spent nearly all of 1976 living and working in Israel, on Kibbutz Beit Hashita, where he studied Hebrew. ...
From the biography of the Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation:
Dr. Manfred Raphael Lehmann, of Miami Beach, Florida, formerly of New York City, died on May 30,1997. He was 74
years old. He is survived by his beloved wife of 48 years, Sara Anne, his daughters Barbara Lehmann Siegel (Yitzch ...
Charles Lenchner grew up in Israel and served in her army; he was a refusenik in 1987-1988, preferring to go to prison rather than enter the West Bank as a soldier. Currently (2006), he lives and works in the Jewish community in New York. ...
Nathan B. Lenvin ... worked for the Office of the Alien Property Custodian and for the FARA section of the US Dept. of Justice.
In 1958, he described himself as follows:
My name ...
Ye'ud Levanon served as military correspondent in the Israeli Defense Forces Radio Network "Galei Tzahal" from 1970-1974. In 1975 he was United States correspondent for Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Achoronot as well as "Galei Tzahal". Until the mid 1980's he acted as senior news editor at Yediot Achoronot.
In 1976 he directed his first feature film "THE HONEY CONNECTION" ...
Harry Levin, an American, was a journalist and broadcaster for the Haganah in Jerusalem in 1948 and, later, joined the Israeli foreign service.
He was Charge D'Affaires to Australia and New Zealand and Israeli consul in the United States.
...
Jacob "Jack" J. Lew (born: 29 August 1955) is the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (or OMB) a position he previously held from 1998 to 2001.[2] He is scheduled to be the 25th White House Chief of Staff.
Natasha Mozgovaya and Barak Ravid report (10 January 2012) ...
Nathan Lewin is (2002) is a Washington, D.C. attorney who frequently appears before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Adjunct Faculties of George Washington Law School (Jewish Civil Law) and Columbia Law School (Supreme Court Litigation). A Jewish American, he provides (2004) legal advice to AIPAC in the controversy over the Larry Franklin spying affair.
In May 2002, he wr ...
Joseph Anthony Lewis (27 March 1927 - 25 March 2013) was a columnist for The New York Times,
which he joined in 1969. Lewis was an American Jew. His Haaretz
obituary
Lewis was a two-time Pul ...
Michael Lewis is head of AIPAC's "opposition research" department -- keeping tabs on people AIPAC considers hostile to its interests. Michael is the son of Bernard Lewis, the Princeton orientalist.
...
Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955) was an American Jewish critic and novelist, perhaps known best for his novel The Island Within. He wrote several autobiographies, translated German literature and wrote the preface to the first English language edition of Otto Rank's seminal work, Art and Artist. He also authored several works on Judaica and Zionism.
Lewisohn immigrated to the United States ...
Born in France in 1933, Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein is the head of the Har Etzion hesder yeshiva in Gush Etzion. He is the son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, the leader of Modern Orthodoxy in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century, who died in 1992. Lichtenstein has a doctorate in English literature from Harvard University, and before immigrating to Israel taught Engl ...
Dr. Alon Liel (1948-), a former director general of the Foreign Ministry and former (1992-94) Israeli Ambassador to South Africa, is (2005) a member of the Council for Peace and Security.
He teaches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at Tel Aviv University and at the Interdisciplinary Cente ...
Rabbi Dov Lior (1933-) is a member of the Yesha Rabbinical Council and chief rabbi of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba. Esther Lior is his wi ...
Moshe Lissak is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1963. ...
Jonathan Littell (1967-) is a bilingual (English / French) writer living in Barcelona. He grew up in France and United States and is a dual citizen of both countries. After acquiring his bachelor degree he worked for a humanitarian organisation for nine years, leaving his job in 2001 in order to concentrate on writing. His first novel written in French, The Kindly Ones, won two major French awar ...
Douglas Little is a Professor, Department
of History, Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He is also Associate Provost, Dean of the College
Little received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1975 and 1978, respectively, from Corne ...
Robert Linlithgow Livingston IV, better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. His wikipedia ...
On Saturday, 20 December 2008, the front page of the website for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC contained just the following text:
On December 15, 2008, the Honorable Louis L. Stanton, a Federal Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, appointed Irving Picard ...
Edwin A. Locke ... Personal Representative of the USPresident to China, 1945; Special Assistant to the President, 1946-1947; Ambassador in Charge of U.S. Mission to the Near East, 1951-1952.
...was US special representative to the Near East, and was with the UN commission for Palestine refugees in 1951-53. ...
Noah London (1888-c1940), born in Russia in 1888, was an important Jewish official of the Communist Party of the USA before returning to his native Russia. In the United States, he studied engineering at Cooper Union, was active in the Party's Jewish Federation, was the first labor editor of its newspaper, Freiheit, and was chair of the United Workers Cooperative Colony. In the USSR, he worked o ...
Yohanan Lorwin (1953-1999) ... In January 1999, three principal activists from the Alternative Information Center,
Elias Jeraysi, Inbal Perelson and Yohanan ...
Yael Lotan (1935-2009) was born in British-ruled Palestine.
She went to Argentina in 1953 with her diplomat parents, then studied in England, where she married her first husband, Maurice Stoppi, an English engineer.
Together they travelled to Jamaica – then still a British colony – in 1958.
After seven year ...
Mordecai (Max) Isaac Lubowsky ... originally from Sejny in Lithuania ... moved to Palestine in September 1884 after having lived in the the United States where it appears he had moved in the 1870s and became naturalized as a US citizen ...
in November 1884, he bought 2800 dunams of land in the Hula Valley which he named ...
Edward NicolaeLuttwak (born 1942) is a Senior Fellow in Preventive Diplomacy at The Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Luttwak was born in Arad, Romania, and later attended the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University, where he received a doctorate. His first aca ...
William Francis Lynch (1801-1865) entered the United States navy as midshipman in 1819, and was promoted lieutenant in 1828. The expedition to explore the course of the Jordan and the Dead sea was planned by him in 1847, and, after receiving the sanction of the government, was carried out by him with success. He sailed for Smyrna in the storeship "Supply," and thence made an overland journey on ...
Denis M. MacEoin (b. Belfast 1949) is an Islamic "scholar" - new-orientalist, a journalist for several rightwing organizations, popular-novel author (under the pseudonyms: Daniel Easterman
and Jonathan Aycliffe) and zionist advocate. MacEoin often writes letters to the editor of newspapers to highlight Arab/Islam/terrorism/anti-semitism issues; alternatively, MacEoin has written a s ...
William Butts Macomber Jr., (1921-2003) was appointed US ambassador to Jordan in March 1961.
He was previously US Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations.
Once retired in a State Department personnel cutback, Macomber, a graduate of Yale, had returned as special assistant to Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr. and, later, to Secretary Dulles.
A native of ...
Rev. Dr. Victor E. Makari is (2004) the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s liaison to the Middle East.
Dr. Makari serves on the General Assembly staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as Coordinator for the Office of the Middle East. Before June 2000, he was the area coordinator for the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia.
He is a native of Egypt and has been a minister of the ...
Jean Said Makdisi is the sister of Edward Said.
A Christian, born in Jerusalem, she went to English schools in Cairo, then attended college in the United States, where she lived for fifteen years before moving to Beirut in 1972 with her Lebanese husband and three young sons.
...
Faris S. Malouf (1892-1958), born in the Lebanon, immigrated to the US in 1907, becoming a citizen in 1915.
Starting his life in the US as a peddler, Malouf rose to prominence in Boston as a lawyer.
He was very active in several Arab-American organizations and, through these, supported Palestinian rights through various resolutions, letters, and meetings.
In 1932, Malouf c ...
Lydia Mary Olive von Finkelstein Mamreov Mountford (1855-1917), born Lydia (Mary Olive) von Finkelstein in Palestine ... immigrated to the United States about 1875 ... shortly thereafter, for a time with her brother Peter, gave presentations of Bible story and custom to audiences in England, North America, India, Australia and New Zealand ... in 1888, an Australian described her as a "six-foot b ...
Ernst Mandel (1923 – 1995)...
Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. (b. Frankfurt April 5, 1923 - d. Brussels July 20, 1995). He was recruited to the Belgian section of the international Trotskyist mov ...
David Daniel ("Mickey") Marcus (1901 -10 June 1948) was an American United States Army colonel who assisted Israel during the 1948 War of Independence and who became Israel's first Major General.
Marcus is the best known Israeli Machal (the Hebrew acronym for Mitnadvim miCHutz laAretz/"volunteers from outside Israel") soldier, glorified in a 1966 Hollywood movie with Kirk Douglas as M ...
Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the head of the Washington-based The Israel Project a zionist propaganda (hasbara) organization. She is also a co-founder of Z Street, and extreme zionist group seeking to counteract/offset J Street, the dovish ...
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin on July 19,1898. After completing his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Freiburg in 1922, he moved to Berlin, where he worked in the book trade. He returned to Freiburg in 1929 to write a habilitation (professor's dissertation) with Martin Heidegger. In 1933, since he would not be allowed to complete that project under the Nazis, Herbert began work ...
Joanne Mariner graduated from Yale Law School in 1992.
She is deputy director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch. Since 1994, when she joined the organization, she has covered prison conditions in Brazil, war crimes and other abuses in Kosovo, counter-narcotics policy in Bolivia, super-maximum security prisons ...
Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He holds faculty positions in Michigan?s Department of Political Science and its Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies. ...
Baruch Marzel was born in the United States, is married with 9 children and currently (2004) lives in Hebron. He graduated the "Itaray" Yeshiva of Harav Merkaz.. He served in a tank regiment in the IDF and was injured during the Lebanon war.
Marzel began his political activity as a member of the racist KACH (Kahane) movement, and was the speaker and secretary of the party. After the de ...
In 2002
Rania Masri is the Founder and Coordinator of the
Iraq Action Coalition (IAC), an informational network that distributes news on the effects of 10 years of sanctions on the people of Iraq. She also works with the
...
Nabil Matar ( B.A., M.A., American University of Beirut; Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Professor of English and department head of Humanities and Communication at the Florida Institute of Technology. In April 2004 he was invited by Shakespeare's Globe to deliver the 2004 Sam Wanamaker ...
Dr. Philip Mattar (1944-) is a former executive director of the Institute for Palestine Studies and a former associate editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Middle Eastern history. He was a Fulbright scholar and has taught history ...
James N. Mattis
General James N. Mattis, USMC
Nickname "Chaos"
"Warrior Monk"
"Mad Dog Mattis"[1]
Place of birth Pullman, Washington
Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch United States Marine Corps
Years of service 1972 - present
Rank General
Commands held U.S. Joint Forces Command/Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
I Marine Expeditionary Force
U.S. Ma ...
Milton Sanford Mayer (1908-1986), a journalist and educator, who was best known though his long-running column in The Progressive magazine, founded by Robert Marion LaFollette, Sr in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mayer wrote history, perhaps his most influential book being They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, first published in 1955 by the University of Chicago Press. At various tim ...
Saly Mayer (1892--1950), Swiss Jewish leader and representative of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Switzerland
Saly Mayer, born in Switzerland in 1882, was a lace manufacturer who retired early because he had political ambitions. During 1936 through 1942 he was the head of the Union of Swiss Jewish Communities (SIG) and from 1940 also the JDC representative in Switzerland. B ...
Beigel & Beigel Mazon ... give their address as
Industrial Zone
44820 Barkan
Israel [sic!!!! -- but Barkan is in the West Bank]
Phone : ý+972 3 9066555
Fax : ý+972 3 9364579
and describes its business as
Avtivities
Beigel & Beigel is one of the first baking factories in Israel, founded by Beigel family in 1949. The Beigel family has o ...
Colonel William T. McAninch was a US career soldier. During
World War II he served in the European theater and -was
later assigned to the occupation forces in Germany prior to
returning home.
Following a tour of duty in Puerto Rico and one in the
United States, Colonel McAninch was assigned to the United
Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Palestine, as a Mili-
tary Observer. ...
US Admiral John McCain, Jr. (b. 1911 – d. 1981) was a four star admiral in the United States Navy who served in conflicts from the 1940s through the 1970s. He is the father of US Senator John McCain, III. Admiral McCain oversaw the whitewash/burying of the attack on the USS Liberty.
...
Robert W. McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is the founder of Free Press. He is the author of numerous books on the Media, especially in the United States.&nbs ...
John Jay McCloy (1895-1989) was a lawyer and banker who later became a prominent United States presidential advisor. He was known for his opposition to the World War II atomic bombing of Japan, his refusal to endorse compensation to the 110,000 Japanese-Americans who were held in internment camps within the USA, and his refusal as Assistant Secretary of War to endorse USAAF bombing raids on the r ...
William Denison McCrackan (1864-1923), an American historian and author, ... edited the short-lived Jerusalem News
Page 146 of The National cyclopaedia of American biography says:
McCrackan was born in Munich, Germany, Feb. ...
James Grover McDonald (1886-1964), a professor of history and international relations, served as the League of Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees, and was appointed as the first American ambassador to Israel.
McDonald became involved with the Jewish refugee problem as early as 1933. He headed committees and represented the US in the 1938 Evian Conference on Jewish refugees.
His positio ...
Captain William Loren McGonagle (1925–1999) was a United States Naval officer in command of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israel Defense Force. William McGonagle is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
...
Jonathan McIvor was the first Head of the
EU Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories, code-named EUPOL COPPS, taking office on 1 January 2006.
Previously, McIvor led the EU Coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support, within the
Office of EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, ...
Fiona McKay is (2004) Director of the International Justice Program of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
As the Director of the Lawyers Committee’s International Justice Program, Fiona McKay works to strengthen the emerging system of international justice, focusing in particular on ensuring that the International Crim ...
The late Richard D. McKinzie ... was Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City,
where taught in the Department of
History from 1969 until his death in 1993. He held a Ph.D.
from Indiana University and fervently believed that history
was a living and relevant discipline. He had a deep and abiding
interest in America’ s multicultural past and present, and sought
to adva ...
Michael McMahon has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 13th district of the State of New York, since 2009. ...
Robert Strange McNamara was born in San Francisco on June 9, 1916.
Mr. McNamara graduated from the University of California in 1937. In 1939 he received an MBA degree from Harvard, and in 1940 he returned to Harvard to become an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Business Administration. In 1943 he was commissioned a captain in the air force and served in the UK, India, China, and the ...
'Mega' ... Israeli spy in the United States ... his (her?) cover name was revealed in an NSA-intercepted conversation between two Israeli intelligence officers. 'Mega' was clearly at the policymaker level, as Ben-Ami Kadish and ...
Emad Mekay is the IPS trade and finance correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He joined IPS in October 2001, and has since broken several stories related to controversial activities of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has also reported widely o ...
Liebe Melamed, mother of Dan Jacobson, was born in Kelme, Lithuania, in 1896. Her family migrated to South Africa in 1919, after the death of her father, Heshel Melamed, a rabbi, who refused to leave Lithuania after traveling to the United States and finding that many Jews were not following their religion. She was h ...
approx 400 other signatories ...
(Followed by approximately 400 signatures)
Chicago J. Medill Chicago Tribune. 0. W. Nixon The Inter-Ocean. Victor Lawson The Chicago Daily News. Washington Hessing Illinois Staats Zeitung Co. H. J. Huiskamp The Chicago Times. Harry Wilkinson The Chicago Daily Globe. W. K. Sullivan Chicago Evening Journal. Richard Michaelis Chicago Freie Presse. James ...
Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) was a German Jewish architect, known for his expressionist buildings in the 1920s, the first in their style -- one of his buildings was the
Schocken department store ("Kaufhaus Schocken") in Stuttgart, built for Salman Schocken.
He emigrated in the spring of 1933 to England. H ...
Frank J. Menetrez is an attorney in Los Angeles and a member of Military Families Speak Out.
Mr. Menetrez received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University and
PhD in philosophy and JD from UCLA.
He is
a Research Attorney for the Honorable Frances Rothschild, California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 1. Prior to joining the ...
Moshe Menuhin (1893-1983), the father of Yehudi Menuhin, grew up in Jaffa and attended the Gymnasia Herzlia there, becoming alarmed by the rise of militant Zionism.
Menuhin was born in Russia to a distinguished, religious Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of ...
Theodor Meron was born in Poland on 28 April 1930 and became a citizen of the United States in 1984. Prior to that he was Israel’s Ambassador to Canada and later to the United Nations in Geneva. He studied law at the Universities of Jerusalem, Harvard and Cambridge.
From 1978 he was Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law. Between 1991 and 1995 he was Profes ...
Selah Merrill (1837-1909) was an American Congregationalist clergyman and United States Consul, born at Canton Centre, Conn. After studying at Yale and at the New Haven Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1864. During the last year of the Civil War he was chaplain of the Forty-ninth United States colored infantry and in 1868 went to Germany, where he studied two years. In 1874-77 he was in P ...
Claire Messud, a resident of Cambridge (US), is the author of the novel The Emperor’s Children. Born in Toulon, France, Messud grew up in the United States, Australia and Canada, returning to the United States as a teenager. Messud's mother is Canadian, her father of French origin (from formerly-French Algeria). The writer was educated at Milton Academy, Yale University, and Cambrid ...
Commander Robert Meynier ... a supporter of General Giraud. Like Giraud, Meynier was a war hero; he was also anti-German, anti-British, and strongly pro- American. ... Milton Miles, who worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence, set up an intelligence network in Indochina in 1943, headed by Cmdr. Robert Meynier, an anti-Vichy ...
Giraud's choice for this post was Robert Meynier, a 27-year-ol ...
Norton Mezvinsky is a professor in the
History Department at
Central Connecticut State University.
Mezvinsky, a native of Ames, Iowa, earned his B.A. at the University of Iowa in 1954 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the U ...
Arnon Milchan (1944-) is an Israeli director/film producer and close friend of Ehud Olmert and a
personal friend of Shimon Peres. Milchan underwrites the Israeli Network which transmits programs
involving Israel to the United States and Canada via cable and satellite. Milchan is a film
producer and businessman. Milchan produced many successful films such as The War of the Roses,
Pretty Woman ...
Jeremy Milgrom is a Conservative Rabbi, born in the United States, who moved to Israel as a teenager, in 1968. He is a member of Rabbis for Human Rights.
He states that his "rabbinate is devoted to refining and amplifying the universalist humanist message in Judaism, e.g., by establishing and directing Cle ...
John Mill (1870–1952), also known as Yoysef Shloyme Mil, was one of the founders of the Jewish Labor Bund. He was a leading activist during its first two decades.
When Der yidisher arbeyter, the Bundist paper published in Vilna, became the organ of the Foreign Committee of the Bund in 1899, Mill became its new edito ...
Aaron David Miller (1949-) was, during the second Clinton administration, deputy to Dennis Ross dealing with the Middle East. he was involved in the Camp David 2000 negotiations. In 2003, he left the State Department to become president of the Seeds of Peace organization. In January 2006, he becam ...
Tuvye Ziskind Miller (1888–1962) was editor of Bustanai (Gardener), the organ of the (Jewish) Farmers' Union in Palestine. He lived in New York from 1904 to 1909 ...
Richard Miron has worked as a correspondent for the BBC's national and international news networks – World Service TV, News 24, BBC 1, World Service Radio and Radio 4 – as well as on documentaries and on leading current affairs programmes, including: Today, The World at One, PM, and The World This Weekend.
For a number of years, Miron was based in the Middle East, and has worked in ...
James Mitchel (1840-) ... son of John Mitchel ... enlisted in
the 1st Virginia Infantry Co. E. and later served in the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.
... wounded in Virginia in 1864 and paroled in Augusta, Georgia on May 19, 1865. ... After the war became Marshall of the New York Fire Brigade and married Mary Pur ...
Matiel E. T. Mogannam (1900-1992), one of the earliest university-educated Palestinian women (she had a degree in law), was one of the leaders of the Arab women who, in April 1933, marched to holy sites in protest at Allenby's visit.
Mogannam, a Christian, was born in Lebanon but was raised in the United States, where her family immigrated during her childhood. There, she met and mar ...
Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States. In 2004-2005 he served as the director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York.
...
Leslie Moonves, a great-nephew of David Ben Gurion (his grandfather's sister was Paula Munweis, who married Ben-Gurion in 1917), is President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Television. In this role, Moonves is responsible for the programming and marketing operations of all the Company's broadcast television efforts, ...
Luis Moreno-Ocampo (born 4 June 1952) is an Argentine lawyer who has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 16 June 2003. He previously worked as a prosecutor in Argentina, famously combating corruption and prosecuting human rights abuses by senior military officials. He has also lectured in criminal law and practiced law privately.
Michael Mandel reports: ...
Ted Morgan is the author of more than fifteen books, including FDR: A Biography and Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. As Sanche de Gramont, he was the only French citizen to win the Pulitzer Prize (for journalism). He lives in New York City.
Morgan is a French-American writer, biographer, journalist, and historian. He was born Comte St. Charles Armand Gabriel de Gramont ...
Hans Joachim Morgenthau (1904-1980) was a founder of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in 1974 and its first chairman.
Born and educated in Germany, he left at the age of 33 and settled permanently in the United States where he was appointed to university positions, including chairs named for the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science ...
Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) was appointed as United States Ambassador to Ottoman Empire in 1913 and held that position until 1916. He was the father of Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
See ...
The Morgenthau Commission was created by the United States to investigate reports of mistreatment of Jews in Poland. It was led by Henry Morgenthau and comprised Homer H. Johnson and Brigadier General ...
Soheir Morsy is an Egyptian-American medical anthropologist and a UN consultant.
She and her husband,
Dr. el-Bayoumi,
have taught at a number of universities in the United States, including Florida State, Michigan State, MIT, Berkeley and Tufts, as well as universities in Egypt. During their long teaching careers in the United States they became citizens, and now, in retirement, shuttle betwee ...
Alfred H. Moses is currently the Chair of UN Watch, Geneva, Switzerland. From 1991 until 1994 he was president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC). He served as Special Adviser and Special Counsel to the President of the United States in the Carter White House. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him the American ...
Leo Motzkin (1867 - 1933)
was a Russian Zionist leader. A leader of the World Zionist Congress and numerous Jewish and Zionist organizations, Motzkin was a key organizer of the Jewish delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and one of the first Jewish leaders to organize opposition to the Nazi Party in Germany.
...
Joel Mowbray is an American neocon who writes for the Unification Church's Washington Times . Mowbray is (2013) an "Adjunct Fellow" at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).
FDD ...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) was the United States envoy to the United Nations in November 1975, when the organization adopted the resolution equating Zionism with racism
...
Michael Mukasey (born 1941) is an American neocon nominated to become the next US Attorney General. Mukasey is a hardline zionist and orthodox Jew.
See his wikipedia biography; his SourceWatch ...
Hugo Munsterberg (1916-1995) born in Berlin, Germany, moved to the United States in 1935. After receiving a doctorate in art history from Harvard in 1941, he spent four years in the US Army. An internationally recognized expert on Far Eastern art, Professor Munsterberg taught at Michigan State University and the International Christian University (Tokyo) before joining the faculty at SUNY New ...
Sue Wilkins Myrick (b. 1 August 1941) is a North Carolina congresswoman. She is a leading neocon in the US Congress.
From Myrick's Wikipedia entry:
Myrick was one of
the leading Republican opponents of an abortive 2006 sale of port operations at six major American
ports along the East Coast to Dubai Ports World, a state-owned company from the United Arab
Emirates. In a F ...
Azar Nafisi (born 1955) is an Iranian-American neocon associate of Paul Wolfowitz. She is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran .
Comment by Hamid Dabashi:
What is far more important than documenting Azar Nafisi 's pathetic career opportunism and neocon
conn ...
Samir Naqqash was (he died in July 2004) a leading Israeli novelist who wrote only in his mother tongue: Arabic. He was born into a Jewish family in Baghdad in 1938. When he was thirteen, Naqqash and his family were among the Iraqi Jews transported to Israel in the 1951 airlift.
Samir Naqqash was one of the last, and certainly the most important Jewish writer in Israel to contin ...
Dr. Hanna Nasir was the president of Bir Zeit University.
Dr. Nasir received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1967 from Purdue University in the United States of America and returned to Palestine after the June 1967 War to participate in the development of Birzeit College which later became the first University in Palestine. Israeli occupation forces exiled Dr. Nasir in 1974 to the sout ...
Bassam Mohammed Nasser, aged 39 in 2008, is a field service officer for Catholic Relief Services in Gaza. Born in Gaza, he has studied in the West Bank, Israel and the United States. ...
In 1972,
Yusuf (Joseph/Joe) Nasser, a young English teacher from a Christian family, who had studied in the United States and formed ties with one of the senior people in the Palestine Liberation Organization, was the founding editor and publisher of the Palestinian newspaper Al Fajr (The Dawn). At the beginning of 1974 a cartoon was published in Al Fajr that showed Sheikh al-Jabari with a ho ...
Abie Nathan was born to a Jewish family in Iran. He was later educated by Jesuit priests in India. He served as a fighter pilot with British forces during World War II and emigrated to Israel in 1948 where he participated as a pilot in the war.
He remained in the Israeli Air Force until 1951, when he settled down in Tel-Aviv, where he opened a popular and profitable American-style restaurant in ...
Emmanuel Navon (1971-) was born in Paris and, given his original surname, his family is probably Moroccan in origin. He moved to Israel in 1993 and got a PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A member of the ...
Emanuel Neumann ... a Zionist American Jew who, in the 1930s, favoured "transfer" of the Palestinian population to Iraq. ... During the course of his life, he held a number of Zionist offices including President of the Zionist Organization of America, President of the Jewish National Fund in the United States, member of the Jewish Agency and Vice-Chairman of the American Zionist Emergency Counci ...
Franz Leopold Neumann (1900-1954), a political scientist, was born in Katowice, near the Polish city of Kraków.
As a student Neumann participated in the German November revolution of 1918 and joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Neumann was instrumental in organizing the Socialist Students Society in Frankfurt, where in 1918 he met Leo Lowenthal, a future member of the Frankfurt ...
Rebecca Neuwirth is (2006) the American Jewish Committee's director of special projects.
From the AJC website biography
Rebecca Neuwirth is director of special projects at AJC. In this capacity, she works closely with AJC's executive
director on issu ...
Dr. Marcy Newman, born in Los Angeles, was (2005) an assistant professor of English at Boise State University. She was the legislative coordinator for Idaho District 2 U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation.
She was
awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to study outside of the United States during the 2005-06 academic year, to lecture and conduct research at the University o ...
Robert William "Bob" Ney (born 5 July 1954) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until 3 November 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resignation followed his guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the ...
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851)
... the first Jewish American consul-general. In 1813, he was sent to Tunisia on a diplomatic mission by President James Madison. ...
Mordechai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was the most influential Jew in the United States in the early 19th Century. He was an editor, journalist, playwright, politician, lawyer, court of appeals judge, New York Port surveyor, a major in the New York military and a Zionist.
Noah was born July 19, 1785, in Philadelphia of Portuguese Jewish ancestry. His father, Manuel M. Noah, served w ...
Ana Nogueira, a white South African, is a journalist and film maker. She worked as a producer for the national daily radio and TV news program Democracy Now! in the United States for four years and later as a correspondent for the show. She is also a founding member of the New York City Independent Media Center and the global Indymedia network which was a pioneer in citizen-produced journalism. ...
Eleanor Holmes Norton is the non-voting Delegate from the District of Columbia to the United States House of Representatives. She is listed as an "Intergroup partner" on the American Jewish Committee's website.
Her SourceWatch biography. ...
Robert D. Novak is a Washington Post columnist, FoxNews Commentator, and a former longtime CNN-Crossfire commentator.
Akiva Eldar provides some background to Novak:
Novak was born 76 years ago to a Jewish family in Joliet, Illinois. He studied Hebrew in Sunday school, blithely
san ...
Stewart David Nozette (1957-) is a Jewish119509 American scientist who was arrested in October 2009 for passing in secret information to an Israeli intelligence official.
FBI ...
Lev Nussimbaum Lev Nussimbaum was a Jew
who converted to Islam and never publicly acknowledged his Jewish roots, but whose Jewish identity largely determined both the circumstance of his life and death.
Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Ger ...
Herman J. Obermayer, a former editor and publisher of daily newspapers in suburban Washington and suburban New York, is the author of Soldiering for Freedom: A GI's Account of World War II and REHNQUIST: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States .
Obermayer was in the Nuremberg courtroom when Allied prosecutors presented the ...
From a UNRWA biography:
Adnan S. Abu Odeh was born in Nablus, Palestine on 10 November 1933. Upon completing his studies and training in Amman's Teachers' Training College in 1954 he became a schoolteacher in Jordan. In
1959 he graduated from the schoo ...
Laurence Oliphant (1829–88)
British author, traveller, and mystic, a controversial figure whose quest to establish a Jewish state in Palestine—“fulfilling prophecy and bringing on the end of the world”—won wide support among both Jewish and Christian officials but was thought by some to be motivated either by commercial interests or by a desire to strengthen …
THe following no ...
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi received her MFA from Brown University and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design. She has lived in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Spain and the United States. In 2010-2011 she will be traveling to Barcelona, Spain on a Fulbright Grant to finish her novel, The Holy City, Dream & The Traveler, and her novella 1918. ...
John Walter Olver has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing the First District of Massachusetts, a primarily rural district that makes up most of Western Massachusetts. ...
Ranen Omer-Sherman was a founding member of a desert kibbutz and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami where he teaches a wide range of courses in American and British as well as Israeli and other Jewish literatures. His book reviews appear in The Miami Herald and hi ...
Brendan O'Neill is a British far-leftie who was originally with a secretive group called "Socialist Action". He is now primarily the editor Spiked Online, a transmogrification of the previous lefty magazine, Living Marxism. Spiked is a distinctly dubious group, e.g., receiving funds from the Hill & Knowlton PR company...
From the Battle of Ideas biography: Battle of Ideas 2007 fe ...
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) ...
Oppenheimer was, 1916, president of the Komitee für den Osten
The Austrian Poale Zionists were advocates of cooperative settlement schemes in Palestine, along lines advocated ...
Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve. He was an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer and a leading Peak Oil theorist whose writing is featured on such sites as www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and www.powerswitch.org.uk. He is an engin ...
Founded in 1926 by a group of prominent American Jews, including Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the Palestine Economic Corporation provided material aid and technical assistance to Jewish business enterprises in Palestine. Funding was usually in the form of loans or equity investments. Subsidiaries to the co ...
Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is the current US Secretary of Defense, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama since 2011. He is the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. An American Democratic politician, and lawyer, Panetta
served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Repr ...
Trita Parsi is a Middle East specialist at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 2006. He is a co-founder and current President of the ...
The Ghadar Party (1912/3-1948) was an organization founded in 1912/3 by Punjabi Indians, primarily Sikhs, in the United States and Canada with the aim of liberating India from British rule. The movement began with a group of immigrants known as the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast.
After the outbreak of World War I, Ghadar party members returned to Punjab to agitate for rebellio ...
Jacob Pat (1890-1966) was a journalist, writer and activist born in Bialystok, Russian Empire. A member first of the Zionist-Socialist WOrkers' party, he switched to the Jewish Labor Bund, serving as the General Secretary of the Bund's Central Association of Yiddish Schools in Warsaw, Poland in the years preceding World War II. A fund-raising trip in the fall of 1938 brought him to the United Sta ...
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson (1867-1947) was an Irish Protestant Zionist.
Patterson was born in County Westmeath, in the village of Forgney (where the 18th-century writer Oliver Goldsmith spent some of his youth). His parentage is somewhat mysterious. Some authors suggest that he was actually the illegitimate son of a member of the King-Harman family of landlords and that h ...
Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born 7 January 1963) is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. He is a member of the Republican Party. A member of the Tea Party movement, he describes himself as a "constitutional conservative" and a libertarian. ...
Partners for Peace ... created in 1989 by Mrs. Jerri Bird, Partners for Peace was a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization ...
... The boards of directors of Partners for Peace and the Council for the National Interest Foundation ...
Peace X Peace , "the rapidly growing international organization that connects women across cultures for friendship, support, and action for peace. Our global community of women is building a
more balanced, peaceful world where our lives, stories, and voices are valued and honored." [1]
"Peace X Peace began in 2002 when Patricia Smith Melton, a poet, playwright, film maker, a ...
Claiborne de Borda Pell (1918–2009) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S. college students. A Democrat, he was that state's longest serving senator.
...
Charles H. Percy (b. 1919) was an Illinois Senator until his electoral defeat in 1984; the defeat, by Paul Simon, is said to have been engineered by the pro-Israel lobby in retaliation for a supposedly "anti-Israel stance".
...
Shimon Peres (also transliterated as "Perez"; born as
Shimon Persky in Visnieva, Belarus, August 1923) is (2010) the Israeli president.
Lauren Bacall is his first cousin.
...
Yair Peretz ... MK (Shas) ... a leader the Knesset lobby for friendship with Christians which, after casting a broad web of ties across the United States, where it focused its activity until now, has recently turned to Europe and created an infrastructure for cooperation with Christian organizations and parties in the European Parliament -- its new target is Asia.
...
William Pfaff is a syndicated columnist for the IHT; he is based in Paris.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
His latest (2004) book is “Fear, Anger and Failure: A Chronicle of the Bush Administration’s War Against Terror from the Attacks of September 11, 2001 to Defeat in Baghdad” (Algora Publishing, 2004). It contains a collection of his columns on the "war on ...
Eleanor Kearns, born in Seattle and a graduate of Washington University, was working for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco when World War II broke out. She was posted to Istanbul for the Office of War Information and married her first husband, the New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer, ...
William Phillips (1878—1968) was a career United States diplomat
On 24 Januaru 1917, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State by Woodrow Wilson and remained in that position until 1920. It was he who, on 27 February 1917, showed ...
Daniel Pipes is a notorious hardline zionist operator and propagandist. Pipes was the recipient of the 2006 The Guardian of Zion Award, an award presented to zionist activists.
Daniel Pipes is (2002) director of the Middle East Forum, a right-wing think-tank whose web-site states that
"The Middle E ...
Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut was raised in Jerusalem.
He has been studying the small Jewish communities of Greece since 1977. His photo documentaries Scattered Lights: The Remnant of Israel in Rural Greece, The Star in the Crescent: Traditional Jewish Life in Modern Turkey, Fading Glory: Vestiges of Small Town Jewish Life in the American South, and Farewell Samarkand: The Exodus of Jews fro ...
Steven Plaut (born 1951; BA from Temple University, MA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D. from Princeton University) is an associate professor teaching Business Administration in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Haifa.
Described by a fellow Israeli academic as
"an extreme r ...
Poale' Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Zionist Jewish workers circles founded in various Russian cities about the turn of the century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.
Split into Left and Right
Poale Zion split into Left and Right factions in 1919-1920.
The right wing (also known as Rightist Poale Zi ...
Norman Podhoretz (1930-) is a long-time zionist operator in the United States. Podhoretz was the recipient of the 2007 The Guardian of Zion Award, an award presented to zionist activists.
Here is how Alexander Cockburn described him Norman Podhoretz:
Podhoretz is former editor of the ...
George Polk ... On Sunday, May 16, 1948, a boatman discovered the body of CBS correspondent George Polk floating in the bay of Salonika in northern Greece. ...
He had been shot in the back of the head at point-blank range. The Greek government declared that it would spare no effort to find the murderer. The United States, which was spending a million dollars a day to help the conservative G ...
William R. Polk ... responsible for planning US Middle Eastern policy at the State Department, 1961-65 and then a University of Chicago professor of history. His books include The United States and the Arab World and The Elusive Peace.
...
Kenneth Michael Pollack (b. 1966) is a former CIA analyst, a former specialist on the Persian Gulf in Clinton's National Security Council, and a director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution. He was one of the prominent 'liberal hawks' cheerleading for the Iraq war. His book, The Threatening Storm, was influential in selling the WMD case. [2] His late ...
Colonel Seymour Jacob Pomrenze (1916-) was an MFAA (Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives) Officer for the U.S. Army.
A former member of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s staff, Pomrenze served as the first director of the Offenbach Archival Depot in 1946. He was instrumental in the restitution of thousands of lo ...
Tamar, née Hirschensohn, de Sola Pool (1890-1981) was born in Jerusalem, to Rabbi Chaim Hirschenson, originally of Safed, and Eva (Cohen) Hirschenson. The Hirschenson family immigrated to the United States in 1904, settling in New Jersey, where Rabbi Hirschenson became a congregational rabbi. As supporters of ...
PCUSA ... The PC(USA) was established by the 1983 merger of the former Presbyterian Church in the United States, whose churches were located in the Southern and border states, with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, whose congregations could be found in every state.
...
David Eugene Price is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing North Carolina. Price was first elected in 1986, was ousted during the 104th Congress, but regained his former seat the next election.
...
Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) was a Zionist German rabbi who moved to America in 1937.
He became vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress and was prominent in the World Zionist Organization.
He took part in the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.
In the 1970s, he joined Breira but later resigned, complaining tha ...
Project Interchange is a AJC run project to bring foreign "opinion makers", e.g., journalists, editors, politicians, to Israel. The program is meant to present the Israeli positions and to create a sympathetic ally in the country of origin of the persons who attend the program. While in Israel the PI-attendees meet with government officials, journalists, etc., and of course, a visit ...
Joseph M Proskauer (1877-1971) ... was president of the American Jewish Committee from 1943 to 1949
Justice Proskauer was born on August 6, 1877 in Mobile Alabama to Alfred and Rebecca L. Proskauer. His family were German and Austrian immigrants who had come to the United States before the Civil War. At the a ...
Provisional State Council, ... the Jewish pre-state government in Palestine ... an organ of the Jewish Agency ... consisted of nine men and one woman
From Wikipedia
The provisional government of Israel (Hebrew: הממשלה הזמניתR ...
Marc Prowisor is a new immigrant from the United States who lives in the northern West Bank settlement of Shiloh. He is behind the One Israel Fund, an American zionist group donating materials to the IOF. ...
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 and later sat on the board of governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, a birthplace of Israel’s nuclear weapons.
...
Nehemiah Rubitzov, originally from the Ukraine, migrated to the US, studied at the University of Chicago ... enlisted in the Jewish Legion in the United States
... changed his name to Rabin ...
with Zvi Nadav, founded the Haganah branch in Jerusalem ...
... married ...
Abraham Rabinovich, born in New York, a graduate of Brooklyn College and a United States Army veteran. He
lives (2005) in Jerusalem. He is a former staff reporter for Newsday in New York and The Jerusalem Post.
...
Prof. Itamar Rabinovich is the president (in 2003) of Tel Aviv University, and was Israel's ambassador to
the United States from 1993 to 1996.
Rabinovich is a Senior Research Fellow at TAU's Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and incumbent of the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East. Rabinovich is also the Andrew White Profess ...
Dmitry Radyshevsky is (2004) the executive director of the Jerusalem Summit, the right-wing Jewish organization for promoting Christian ZIonism which is heavily funded by Michael Cherney. Between the time he left Russia for the United States in 1991 and immigrated to Israel, eight years later, Radyshevsky, 37 (in 2004 ...
Alexander Rafaeli (1910-1996) earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Heidelberg. He subsequently joined the Irgun in Palestine and played an active role in organizing illegal immigration. Rafaeli was sent by Jabotinsky to the United States in 1940. He became part of the Bergson Group’s core leade ...
Hasan Abdel Rahman is Chief Representative of the P.L.O. in the United States.
You can hear
an interview with him
which was broadcast on WBUR
(a National Public Radio
affiliate station in Boston) on 14 March 2002.
...
Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel (born 11 June 1930) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing the Fifteenth Congressional District of New York, and is the most senior member of that state's congressional delegation. He is a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. In January 2007, Rangel became cha ...
Era Rapaport is a an American-born West Bank settler and convicted terrorist.
Raised as an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, Rapaport was a civil rights worker, graduated from Yeshiva University, became a social worker, studied in Israel in 1966 and worked as a medic in the Six-Day War. In 1971 he married a native-born Zionist and they moved to the West Bank -- an ultranationalist, Rapaport wa ...
Bathsheba Ratzkoff is a a young Israeli woman settled in the United States. While, she has described herself as a Zionist, she is critical of the Israeli occupation of the territories occupied in 1967.
...
SS Obersturmbahnfuehrer (Lt. Colonel) Walther Rauff (1906-1984) was the head of Einsatzkommando Aegpten ("task force Egypt"), a group of 24 SS men who were supposed to follow
Erwin Rommel into Egypt and (possibly) into Palestine if ...
In February 1998,
Walter Reich was removed as director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a month after
he refused to escort Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a tour of the museum.
Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics, and Human Beha ...
Harry Mason Reid is the senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party, for which he serves as Senate Minority Leader.
...
Jehuda Reinharz (1944-) is Brandeis University's president, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations member, "serves on a large number of boards and committees, including the United Israel Appeal/Jewish Agency," and "is married to Shulamit Reinharz, professor of sociology and director of Women's Studies and the Hadassah Int ...
Gideon Remez is a specialist on United States history and foreign policy. He recently retired as Head of the Foreign News Desk at Israel Radio, where he worked for 36 years.
...
Nissim B. Reuben is (2007) the program officer for India-Israel-United States Relations at the American Jewish Committee (formerly known as: Indian-Jewish American Relations)
...
Abraham Revusky (1889-1946) was born in Smila in the Ukraine and spent some years in Rehovot before the family returned to Russia for health reasons. (Some sources say he was born in Palestine and taken back to Russia when ...
Ben Rhodes ... a deputy national-security adviser who served as the lead author of the recent “National Security Strategy for the United States” as well as of Obama's Cairo speech in 2009 ...
Susan Elizabeth Rice (born on 17 November 1964) is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term.
Robert Fisk comments (26 September 2009):
Barack Obama's UN ambassador, &nb ...
Dave Rich is Deputy Director of Communications at the Community Security Trust, a U.K. organization which says that it exists "for the defense of British Jewry" -- in other words, Rich works for the British equivalent of the ...
Marc Rich is an American billionaire who was prosecuted for illegal oil trading with Iraq. He was pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day in office -- something that created a scandal. Rich's wife worked for the Clintons fund raising, etc.; that seemed to help. Rich was also implicated in the oil-for-food scandal where billions went missing from a fund meant to provide basic necessities to the I ...
Laura Richardson , a Democrat, has represented the 37th Congressional District of California in the United States House of Representatives since 2008. ...
David Rieff is an American journalist, and the son of Susan Sontag, who reported from the Balkans during the 1990s. Diana Johnstone, in Fools' Crusade [1], provides an account of
Rieff's role in selling the US intervention in Bosnia. Rieff was also a strong proponent of the invasion of Afghanistan.[2] Edward Herman refers to Rieff as a "New Humanitarian Crusader".
...
Matthew Riemer has written for years about a myriad of topics, such as: philosophy, religion, psychology, culture, and politics. He studied Russian language and culture for five years and traveled in the former Soviet Union in 1990. In the midst of a larger autobiographical/cultural work, Matthew is the Director of Operations at YellowTimes.org. He lives in the United States.
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Abraham Dimitri Rihbany (1869–1944), born in Lebanon ... Arab-American Protestant clergyman ...
During the First World War, Rihbany began writing on political issues. His Militant America and Jesus Christ (1917) made a case for American involvement in liberating the homeland of Jesus from Ottoman rule. The following year he brought out America Save the Near East , w ...
Dr. Svi Rin (died 26 September 1998, aged 84) was a faculty member in the Oriental Studies Department (now Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) at the University of Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1982.
Rin (1914-1998) was born in Warsaw as Gamli'el Tzvi Heilperin, the middle son of Yekhi'el and Pnina Heilperin.
Gamli'el (Gami in the family) used this name throughout the period he lived in Pa ...
Louis Rittenberg (c. 1892-1962), born in Hungary, was brought to the United States by his parents in 1906. He was educated in Pittsburgh and Chicago. In 1920, he joined the staff of the American Hebrew, later becoming that periodical's editor-in-chief.
He was, for 40 years a leading Jewish writer in the US: he wrote and edited books and journals in English, Hungarian and Yiddish, was editor ...
Scott Ritter Scott Ritter is a former chief weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq, the author of Endgame, and creator of In Shifting Sands, a documentary.
Since he resigned from the UN weapons inspection team four years ago, Mr Ritter has been the most outspoken critic of US policy towards Baghdad.
He has argued that the inspection team, Unsc ...
Sean R. Roberts lives in Washington, DC. He is an Associate Professor of International Development at George Washington University (GWU) and the Director of GWU's International Development Studies Program. In addition, Dr. Roberts works as a consultant on democracy and governance development projects around the world as well as on issues related to Central Asia. He has lived in Central Asia on a ...
An
anarcho-syndicalist,
Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) was a German gentile who amongst
other things organised Jewish garment workers
in London's East End.
...
Dr.
James Rodgers spent twenty years as a journalist: five for Reuters Television, and fifteen for the BBC where he worked as a reporter, editor, producer, and presenter. He spent most of his BBC career (1995-2010) as a foreign correspondent, completing posting ...
Livia Rokach (died 1984) was a daughter of Israel Rokach, a prominent Israeli politician who named her Iri (Hebrew, "my city").
She moved to Rome, where she identified herself as “an Italian writer and journalist of Palestinian origin” -- she was a correspondent for the Israeli daily Davar. She was Isr ...
Carlos Peña Romulo (1899-1985) was permanent representative of the Philippines at the UN in 1945-50. He later held other senior positions in the government and in the academic life of his country.
Romulo was born in Camiling, Tarlac, in the Philippines on 14 January 1899. Resident Commissioner to U.S. Congress from the Phillipine Islands, 1944-46. Died in Manila, Philippines, December ...
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man," who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C. and private-sector legal practice in New York City.
...
Sharon Rose, an American Jewish socialist, was a member of the staff of MERIP.
In 1974, MERIP Reports printed "Zionism and American Jews," a speech given by Rose to the 1973 convention of Arab-American University Graduates, a group described by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as "the key PLO 'connection' in the United States.
...
Haiim B. Rosen (1922-1999) received his philological and linguistic training in Europe and Israel, and taught in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and, on various occasions, in France, Germany and the United States. He published extensively in the field of Indo-European and Semitic Linguistics
...
James Naumburg Rosenberg (1874-1970) ... Painter, Printmaker, Art patron, Lawyer
... He became president of the newly-founded American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in 1928
Posenberg was a graduate of Columbia College, receiving his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1898. He served for many years ...
Joel Rosenberg is an associate of John Hagee, the Christian Zionist. Rosenberg is the author of some novels that play along with the Armageddon type Christian zionist fantasies. He also "worked for former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Binyamin) Netanyahu, Israeli politician and author ...
M. J. Rosenberg, is (2006) director of Policy Analysis for Israel Policy Forum.
A long time Capitol Hill staffer, he is also a former editor of AIPAC's Near East Report.
In early 2012, he left Media Matters because it was being attacked for his criticisms of Israel. He started a new blog called MJayRosenberg.com.
...
Gary Rosenblatt is (2003) the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week.
Memorable quotes
Gary Rosenblatt (7 November 2003):
I am prepared, as an American and a Jew, to make the well being of Israel my primary concern
Official Profile
From th ...
Jonathan (Jonathon) Rosenblum is a Jerusalem-based writer and Jerusalem
Post columnist.
He also serves as Israel director of Am Echad, a organization which
describes itself as "a coalition of Jews from across the spectrum of Orthodoxy committed to genuine Jewish unity and continuity ...
Marty Rosenbluth is a Jewish
documentary film producer and human rights activist
who lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
His film company is Insightment Video Productions.
Before becoming a filmmaker, he lived in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank for over seven years (1985 - 1992),
working as a researcher ...
Born in Berlin in 1914, Rosenthal undertook doctoral studies there in 1932-1935. This was followed by a year
in Florence before he returned to Berlin, in 1937, to a post as Dozent für orientalische Sprachen an der Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums and, as such, he was the first person to teach Ugaritic in Berlin.
(Ugaritic was a Semitic language closely related to Phoenician whic ...
Claudia Rosett is the "journalist-in-residence" at the "US-based Foundation for Defence of Democracies", whose website explains that it was originally sponsored by a group of rich philanthropists who wanted to "offer Israel the kind of PR that the Israeli government seemed unable to provide itself" ...
Shmuel Rosner writes for Ha’retz . He is (2006) the paper's chief US correspondent.
From his Haaretz biography:
CV in brief
2004-2005: Head of Features, Haaretz
1999-2004: Head o ...
Dennis B. Ross is (2004) a former Middle East Peace Process Coordinator for the United States State Department.
He is (2007) a "counselor" (whatever that means in this context) of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Ross received his undergraduate education at the
University of California at ...
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1806-1879) ...
Financial Career.
Born at London Nov. 22, 1806; died there June 3, 1879; eldest son of Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild. After passing some time as a student at Göttingen he was initiated into the business transactions of the firm under his father's direction. In 1836 he succeeded the latter in the direction of the English house of Roths ...
Michel Roublev helped found the New Jewish Agenda in 1980. He also was a founding member of the International Jewish Peace Union, one of the first organizations to call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Roublev was born Dec. 7, 1934, in Casablanca, Morocco, to refugees from the ...
Charles K. Rowley is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director of the Program in Economics, Politics and the Law at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy and General Director of The Locke Institute. Professor Rowley received his doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 1964. He taught at the University of Nottingham, the University of York and the University o ...
Ken Silverstein reports: [1]
Jennifer Rubin, a writer for Commentary until late 2010, is
another friend of Orion. She is one of a number of right-wing
versifiers whose flimsy reporting — in her case little more than
eager repetition of GOP talking points and unsubstantiated terror
porn — have landed them jobs at the Washington Post. Orion's
lobbyists have briefed her and set ...
Ruder Finn is an United States public relations firm founded in 1948 by David Finn and William Ruder.
Jeffrey Blankfort (31:45 min mark 1740 ): It is interesting, the [the Senate investigation] files discuss the concern the American Zionist Council, and later AIPAC, had for an organization called the American Council for Judaism – which most people don't k ...
Joshua (Josh) Ruebner is co-founder of
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel.
He is also a former Analyst in Middle East Affairs at the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
He has written about himself, a ...
Rosemary Radford Ruether is a Catholic feminist theologian teaching at Garrett Theological Seminary and is a member of the Graduate Faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She teaches courses on the interrelation of Christian theology and history to social justice issues, including sexism, racism, poverty, militarism, ecology and interfaith relations.
Rosemary Radford ...
Joseph Thomas Ryan was Archbishop of Anchorage and former Field Director for the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. He was Anchorage’s first archbishop,
A native of Albany whose priestly life took him to the farthest reaches of the United States and around the world, Joseph Ryan was ordained in 1939 and assigned as an associate pastor at St. Alphonsus parish in Glens Falls, St. Franci ...
Memorable quotes:
I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel — Haim Saban, in a NYT Interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Haim Saban media mogul with huge media control in Germany. He controls the ProSieben a media group in Germany that is for this market what the "control of a company that owns the rough equivalent of CBS, ABC, TBS and Nickelodeon" in the ...
In June 2004,
David Sable was named as president of the Europe Middle East/Africa (EMEA) region for Wunderman, a division of Young & Rubicam. Sable will be based in London and report directly to Wunderman chairman and CEO, Daniel Morel. He also will work closely in a matrix relationship with chairman and CEO of Y&R and Wunderman EMEA, William Eccleshare.
Sable joined Wunderman in A ...
Alan Sabrosky says of himself
Having only one Jewish grandparent makes me pretty much an outsider, at least for the Orthodox, although guaranteed of an early ride to Bergen-Belsen had I lived “there and then.” But an outside identity, Jewish or other, has never meant much at all to me. I’m an American, and ancestry is something I reserve for odd tastes in cuisine (I do love overstuffed ...
Elías Antonio Saca González (1965-) is a Salvadoran politician and the current (2008) President of El Salvador. He was elected President in 2004. He was elected to serve a 5-year term that ends in 2009.
Saca is descended from Palestinian immigrants who arrived in El Salvador in the early 20th century from the ...
Howard Morley Sachar (1928-) is a professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University and has guest lectured at some 150 other universities in the United States, Europe, ...
William Lewis Safire (December 1929 – September 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist and presidential speechwriter. He was perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for the New York Times. Safire was the recipient of the 2005 The Guardian of Zion Award, an award presented to zionist activists.
In 1990,
Alexander Cockburn stated that ...
Frank Charles Sakran, born in Palestine, was a Christian Arab who lived in the United States from 1914. He became a US citizen while serving in the US Army during World War I. ...
Kamal Saleem is a propaganda fraudster touring the United States claiming that he is an "ex terrorist"... convert to Christianity, etc. Chris Hedges states that Saleem is "a fraud".
Other useful fools used for propaganda purposes:
Walid Shoebat
...
Basel Saleh is (2003) a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Kansas State University.
His father was born in a village called Salamah two to the east of Jaffa in 1940. Now it
is a Jewish settlement.
His mother was born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1939. His father's v ...
Athanasius Yeshue Samuel (1907-1995), more often known as
Mar Samuel, ... Syrian Orthodox Archbishop ...
He moved to the United States in 1949, and played a major role in the life of the Syriac Orthodox Church in North America. From 1952, he served as Patriarchal Vicar to the United States and Canada, and from 1957, as Archbishop of the newly created Archdiocese of the United States and Cana ...
Iwao Peter Sano (c. 1924-), born in Brawley, California, Sano went to Japan in 1939 to become the adopted son ("yoshi") of his childless aunt and uncle. In March, 1945, he was drafted into the Japanese army and sent to join the Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Five months later, when Japanese forces had surrendered to the Soviet army, Sano became a prisoner of war. For nearly three years he labored in ...
Dr. Issam Sartawi (1935–1983) was a senior member of the PLO. He was assassinated after he had called for talks to begin with Israel even as the fighting continued. He tried to meet Shimon Peres at a conference in Lisbon moments before he was murdered.
Sartawi earned a B.A. in Baghdad and later studied ...
Doug Saunders is an international affairs writer on the Globe and Mail's foreign desk, specializing in the culture and politics of the United States. From 1999 to 2002, he was the Globe and Mail's Los Angeles bureau chief. He has won three National Newspaper Awards for his work.
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Professor Dirgham Sbait left Palestine after the destruction of his village, Iqrit (Ikrit) in the Galilee, at the time of the 1948-49 war. Now he teaches semitic languages at Portland State university in the United States. Having collected 120 hours of recordings of Palestinian improvised-sung folk poetry, he produced a ...
Junius Irving Scales (1920-1982), a native of Greensboro, N.C., and graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, was the chair of the Communist Party of North Carolina and South Carolina from 1948 to 1956. He was the first individual imprisoned under the Smith Act for membership in the Communist Party and suspected plotting to overthrow the United States government. He served four ...
Janice D. "Jan" Schakowsky has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing the 9th District of Illinois.
This is what Ali Abunimah has to say about Jan Schakowsky:
Here in Illinois you have representatives like Jan Schakowsky who is seen on th ...
Simon Schama, a British historian of Jewish background, is (2004) a professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Schama is also a zionist and has sporadically written on the subject.
Schama studied history at Cambridge Univer ...
Jonathan Schanzer is a terrorologist working at the Jewish Policy Forum. Schanzer previously worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a counterterrorism analyst for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Schanzer's work has been a source of controversy, pa ...
Adam Schiff, a Democrat, has represented the 29th District of California in the United States House of Representatives since 2001. In 2007, he sponsored a bill to recognize the Armenian genocide.
SourceWatch biography ...
Jacob H. Schiff (1847-1920) was a prominent member of the Reform movement in New York. Schiff was a singular figure in American Jewish history. He came to prominence at a time when one man, given sufficient financial resources, personal commitment, and communal vision, could dominate and define the public agenda for the entire community of American Jews. From 1880 through 1920, Schiff stood at ...
Susan Schmidt is (2013) a "visiting Fellow" at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD)
FDD Profile: (Accessed: 11 March 2013)
Ms. Schmidt brings an interest in a range of topics that affect policy, public dialogue and national security. Sh ...
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994),
of the Lubavitcher Schneersohn dynasty, was the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe and, as such, headed the Chabad Hasidic movement, wielding great influence among many religious Jews in Israel as well as in the United States.
Born in Nikolaiev, Ukraine, Schneerson r ...
Rabbi Marc Schneier is said by Tim Wise (in this article) to be the originator of the hoax that Martin Luther King equated anti-Zionism with anti-Semi ...
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States
(they were actually from Telechan, or Telekhany,
a shtetl , or village, in the Pinsk area of what is now Belarus), Daniel Schorr is a senior news analyst for NPR.
He is one of the most respected journalists in the US.
However, in rela ...
Daniel Schroeter, an internationally recognized scholar of Moroccan Jewish history who was appointed to UCI's Teller Family Chair in Jewish history in the early 1990s was forced to leave University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2008.
He had been denounced not for anything he said but for not taking a public position in favor of a ZOA campaign against UCI. Part of the problem, apparent ...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D., Fla.), chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said "There's nothing like hearing it straight from the president of the United States—his expression that he is strongly pro-Israel." Some say the appointment of Ms. Wasserman-Schultz, who is Jewish, to run the DNC, is, in itself, helpful to Obama's 2012 re-election hope ...
Born in 1892 in Drohobycz (then in south-eastern Poland, but now Drogobych in Ukraine), Bruno Schulz was a Jewish writer and artist.
He was shot in his home town in November 1942. Schulz was bringing home a loaf of bread when he was killed by a Gestapo officer who had a grudge against another Nazi, Schulz's tempora ...
Dr. Isaac Ignacy Schwarzbart (1888–1961)
... the World Jewish Congress ...
In 1929 Isaac Ignacy Schwarzbart established the World Union of General Zionists. during WW2 he was the Zionist representative in the Polish government-in-exile in London
(1888--1961), Zionist activist and politician. Born in Galicia, Schwarzbart was a lawyer who served as an officer in the Austro-Hunga ...
Talcott Williams Seelye (1922-2006) was a former United States Ambassador, author, and commentator.
Seelye was born in Beirut the son of a professor at the American University of Beirut, and great grandson of Julius H. Seelye (famed preacher, writer and fifth president of Amherst College). He attended Deerfield Academy and then graduated from Amherst College in 1944 and enlisted in the U.S. A ...
Alan F. Segal is professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University in Manhattan. ... He opposes granting tenure to Nadia Abu el-Haj.
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Michael Selzer was born in India in 1940, educated in England at Bedales School and Balliol College, lived in Israel for four years (during which time he served as liaison officer for the Council of the Sephardi Community in Jerusalem) before settling in the United States ... worked in New York for the ...
The 20-member ASUC Senate is the legislative branch of the student government at the University of California in Berkeley.
The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), the officially recognized student government of UC Berkeley was originally found in 1882. It is the largest autonomous student go ...
The American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements (ASJFS or AMSOJEFS) was incorporated in 1928 with James N Rosenberg as its president. The American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements (ASJFS) concluded an agreement with the Soviet Government on January 15, 1929 providing $1,000,000 per annum over the period of 10 ye ...
Randa Shaath is a Palestinian who was born in the United States in 1963.
She grew up in Lebanon, studied in Egypt and the US,
and now lives in Cairo. Her father is Nabil Shaath.
...
Simon Shaheen (b. Tarshiha, northern Galilee, 1955) is a Palestinian-born oud- and violin-player and composer.
At the age of 2, Shaheen moved with his family to Haifa. He began playing the oud at 3, and the violin shortly thereafter. Following high school, he attended Tel Aviv University, earning degrees in Ar ...
Corporal Gilad Shalit was captured during a Palestinian raid on an Israeli tank at Karem Abu-Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing on 25 June 2006.
He was taken into the Gaza Strip. On 28 June, Israeli launched a re-invasion of the Gaza Strip purportedly looking for him. The Israeli government recently promoted him t ...
Anton Shammas is a Palestinian novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and translator. He was born in 1950 in Fassuta, Israel, and lived in Haifa and Jerusalem, where he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He edited the Ash-Sharq Arabic monthly literary magazine in Jerusalem from 1970 ...
Hisham Sharabi (1927-2005), born to a well-to-do Palestinian family, spent his childhood in Jaffa and Acre.
He graduated from the American University in Beirut in 1947, with a B.A. in philosophy and went to Chicago for post-graduate study. While there, his family home in Jaffa was rendered inaccessible to him -- although it was allocated to the Arab State in the 1947 UN partition plan for Pale ...
Natan (born Anatoly) Sharansky is (2004) a minister without portfolio in the Israeli gov't. He was Founder & leader of the Russian Immigrants Party (Yisrael Ba-Aliya); Minister of Housing & Construction, & Deputy PM under Sharon (Mar01-). born in 1948, Ukraine. Comp.Sci. graduate from Moscow. Founded & led Jewish movement in Helsinki Monitoring Group. Engaged in Zionist activities in ...
Ariel Scheinerman (1928-), born in Kfar Malal, a co-operative farming settlement 15 miles north-east of Tel-Aviv on the coastal Plain of Sharon, joined the Haganah at the age of 14.
Three years later, in the summer of 1945, he undertook a squad leader course in a Negev kibbutz, before enrolling in the British-cont ...
Assaf Sharon, aged 35 in 2010, is a product of the National Religious Party youth movement, Bnei Akiva, but went on to become
a founder of both Breaking the Silence and ...
Irwin Shaw (1913–1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist who was also a highly regarded short story author.
He was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian-Jewish immigrants. His parents were Rose and Will. His younger brother, David Shaw, who became a noted Hollywood producer, died in 2007. Shortly after Irwin's birth, the Shamfor ...
The son of Irish American parents, James Vincent Sheean (1899-1975) was born on Dec. 5, 1899, in Pana, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago but found the atmosphere ...
With his book Personal History, a combination of autobiography and political commentary, U.S. foreign correspondent (for the Chicago Tribune) and writer Vincent Sheean helped create the genre of book journalism. He al ...
Michel Shehadeh is a Palestinian civil rights activist in the United States.
Until recently (2002), he was a leader of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). He participates in the Pacifica Network's Radio Intifada , a weekly news show on the Middle East.
At the time of writing (late 2002), he faces deportation under the Patriot Act -- a repressive law enacted ...
Sir Nigel Sheinwald is (2008) British ambassador to the United States and, prior to assuming this position in October 2007, he served as chief foreign and defense policy advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Sheinwald is of Jewish descent so, perhaps, it is not too surprising to see him addressing Zionist "thinks tanks" in Washington like ...
Professor Yehouda Shenhav is a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent.
He was born in Petah Tikva in 1952 as Yehouda
Shaharabani, the eldest child in the family.
His mother, arrived in Israel at the age
of 18, in 1950, from Baghdad. She came with her
parents as part of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah,
which brought about 120,000 Iraqi Jews to
Israel between March 1950 and July 1951. At the ...
Robin Shepherd is director of international affairs at the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society in London.
Antony Lerman reports (5 October 2009):
And Robin Shepherd , of the Henry Jack ...
A. J. Sherman was born in Palestine before World War II, but has lived most of his life in the United States. He lives in lives in Vermont where he teaches (1997) History at Middlebury College. He is also an Associate Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, where he was for some years Research Fellow.
Apparently, he is a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School. He had a career i ...
Brad Sherman is (2007) (D-CA) Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, United States House of Representatives. He was a featured speaker at the 2007 Annual AIPAC Conference in the "Tentacles of Terror: The Global Reach of the Terrorist Network" panel.
Affiliations
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Arkady Nikolayevich Shevchenko (1930–1998), a Ukrainian Soviet diplomat, was the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West.
Shevchenko joined the diplomatic service of the Soviet Union as a young man and rose through the ranks of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, becoming advisor to Andrei Gromyko, Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 1973 he was appointed Under Secretary General (US ...
Kenneth J. Shine is a RAND Corporation analyst. From his RAND biography:
Kenneth I. Shine , MD, former President of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), has been named as the founding Director of the RAND Center for Domestic and International ...
Moshe Shklar (c. 1921-), 87 in 2008, born in inter-war Poland, resident of Warsaw and longtime editor of the Yiddish newspaper Folks-Shtime: “published in Poland from April 1945 until December 1991. Folks-shtime (Voice of the People) was the main newspaper of Polish Jews after World War II. It began in Lódz and from October 1949 it came out in Warsaw. Until 8 December 1956 it was published unde ...
Szmuel Lajb Shneiderman (1906-1996), usually known as S. L. Shneiderman, was born in Kazimierz, Poland, and educated at Warsaw University. In 1931 he became the Paris correspondent for a group of Jewish dailies in Poland. He then covered the Spanish Civil War, about which he wrote a two-volume account.
In 1940 Mr. Shneiderman moved to the United States and acquired American citizenship in 1949 ...
From SpinProfile (6 Dec 2005):
Walid Shoebat is a "former terrorist" who now is useful for zionist propaganda purposes, and tours the U.S., Canada, Europe, propagating a constant crass anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim
message. He was purportedly born in the occupied terroritories/Palestine, although his biography on his website is certainly more florid: "Born in B ...
Michal Shohat ... aged 48 in 2001 ... Israeli Jew who toured the United States from coast to coast between January 6 and January 24, 1998 with Nahla Assali and Claudette Habesch ... The three women were recruited by ...
Jerusalem International Writers' Festival 2012 profile
Born in Leningrad in the early 1970s, Gary Shteyngart moved to the United States at the age of seven.
He is the author of the novel The Russian Debutante's Handbook, a New York Times "Notable Book" for 2002 and winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and many other p ...
Born in 1946, Muhammad 'Id Shubair was president of the Islamic university in Gaza until 2005. In mid-November 2006, it was reported that Fateh and Hamas had agreed that he would replace Ismail Haniyeh as PM.
Shubair gained his Bachelor degree in pharmacy from the University of Alexandria in Egypt in 1968. ...
Howard Shultz is (2002) chief executive of Starbucks.
Awards
In 1998 he was honored by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah with "The Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award" for his services to the Zionist state in "playing a key role in
promoting close alliance be ...
Chaim Shur ... aged 75 in 2001 ... was leader of MAPAM ... was Editor-in-Chief of New Outlook from 1982 until it folded, after 35 years, in 1993
Seems to have been just another left Zionist ... of the type that blamed Palestinians, not Israel, for the demise of the Oslo Accord.
...
Henry Siegman is director of the US/Middle East Project and research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
An American Jew, Siegman was born in Europe and
had to flee, via Vichy France and Morocco, to the United States.
He ...
Charles P. Sifton (born 1935) ... Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957
A.B., Bachelor of Arts ... Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1961
LL.B., Bachelor of Law ... Past Employment Positions:
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, 1969 - 1977
Southern District of New York, Assistant United States Attorney, 1966 - 1969
United States Senate Foreign Relations ...
Kristen Silverberg (born 1970 or 1971) was the United States Ambassador to the European Union from July 2008 until January 2009.
She often blogs on the US State Dept's DipNote ...
Henri James Simon (1851–1932), a Jewish cotton magnate in Berlin and friend of the Kaiser (who ennobled him in 1904), was President of the Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden
... he was anti-Zionist
Simon was a patron of the arts, connoisseur, collector and philanthropist best known for his sponsorship of exca ...
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (born in 1944 in Jerusalem) was convicted for the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at the California State Prison, Corcoran. In March 2006, he was denied parole.
The motive for the assassination is made clear in Stephen Kinzer's ...
Isaac Newton Skelton IV has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the Fourth Congressional District of Missouri, since 1977. He is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee ...
Jerome Slater, a Jewish American, is a University Research Professor (emeritus) at the State University of New York in Buffalo. His main research interests include U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Slater describes his attitude thus:
I regard myself as a disillusioned, even despairing, Zionist with close ties to Israel, including ...
Johan Jacob Smertenko (1895-1983) ... vice-president of the American League for a Free Palestine (ALFP). In 1947, he was briefly jailed in London and then deported after defying a ban on his entering Britain. Born in Russia, he was brought to the United States as a child. He served in the Ambulance Corps and then beca ...
Christopher Henry (Chris) Smith (1953-) is an American Republican Party politician, who is a member of the United States House of Representatives, where he represents the New Jersey's 4th congressional district. ...
Stephen J. Sniegoski received a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Maryland. He publishes articles dealing with history, foreign policy and education.
Publications
Stephen J. Sniegoski, The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel, IHS Press, September 2008.
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Dr. Kobi Snitz (PhD, University of Maryland, 2003) is a member of Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) in Israel and a post-doc researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev in Be'er Sheva
& ...
Born in Palestine in December 1935,
Arnon Soffer (also transliterated as "Sofer") is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Haifa, where he has been since 1963.
He specializes in Middle East Geography, m ...
The Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers has its headquarters in Tel Aviv and three regional offices in Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva and Haifa. It claims to have "over 80 branch offices spread across the country".
It seems to have quite a number of affiliates around the world, including the followi ...
Norman Solomon is currently (2002) executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a nationwide consortium of public-policy researchers in the United States. He is the author of Media Beat, a nationally-syndicated column on m ...
Rev. William Somplatsky-Jarman combines a career as a senior clergyman with the management of an investment portfolio, comprising more than $7 billion, which belongs to the Presbyterian Church, one of the major Protestant churches in the United States, with a membership of 2.5 million Americans.
William Somplatsky-Jarman has served as the Associate for Mission Responsibility Through ...
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930.
His father, Tivador, a lawyer/publisher/writer, changed the family’s name, Schwartz, to Soros in 1936.
Despite the fact that 444,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to the Nazi gas chambers, he and his parents survived the Holocaust.
In 1947 he emigrated to England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. While ...
Arlen J. Specter (1930-) is a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was first elected in 1980. He is a firm supporter of Israel.
From Wikipedia:
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas to Jewish parents Lillie Shanin and Harry Specter.[1] He was raised in Russell, Kansas (also the hometown of 1996 Republican Presidential nominee Bob ...
Henry Felix Srebrnik is a professor in the Department of Political Studies in the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada C1A 4P3.
The following (found here) ma ...
Avital (Avi) Stadler is a partner in the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. Stadler was one of the principal authors of an amicus brief filed on behalf of "Specialists in Israeli Military Law an ...
From the CNSNews.com Staff Bios:
Jerusalem Bureau Chief Julie Stahl was named chief of the CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau on August 15, 1999. A former editor of the Israel Information Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Julie’s lived and worked in Israel for t ...
Andrew Steele was the BBC’s Middle East Bureau Editor from 2001 to 2005. A graduate of modern languages from Aberdeen University in Scotland, he worked in Scottish newspapers before moving to the BBC in Edinburgh as a TV reporter. He joined Reuters in 1984 and spent 16 years in a variety of postings in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. In 1998 he rejoined the BBC as European Bureau Ed ...
Karen van Stegeren is the First Secretary of the Political Department at the embassy of The Netherlands in Washington D.C. (2004). She assumed her position as a first secretary for Middle East
issues in the Political Department of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in the summer of 2001, after having participated in a six-month diplomatic exchange program at the State Department's Near E ...
Cyril Stein (born 20 February 1928; died 15 February 2011) a former chairman of the Ladbrokes chain of betting shops, is involved in settlement activities in the West Bank.
In 1956,
Max Parker, together with his nephew Cyril Stein, purchased the Ladbrokes business for £100,000. In 1966 Stein became Chair ...
Mordechai Stein (1894-1969), an Israeli lawyer of Russian origin, founded and led the Third Force Movement. He was also the lawyer who represented Amnon Zichroni when the latter refused to be conscripted into the Israeli army. Stein's son ...
Francis George Steiner (1929-) was born in Paris, studied at the Sorbonne, emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1940, and for the last 50 years has been teaching literature at the best of universities on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. He now lives in Cambridge, ENgland.
Steiner sees himself as a late survivor of the Central European Jewish culture which flourished in ...
Dr. Stephen Steinlight was for more than five years Director of National Affairs (domestic policy) at the American Jewish Committee. For the past two and a half years (2001) he has been a Senior Fellow at AJC.
Steven Steinlight, a synopis by Richard Hugus (source):
...
Constanze Stelzenmüller is a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Luke Harding and Harriet Sherwood report ...
Bret Stephens (1973-) is (2005) a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.
From 2002-2004, he was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, a right-wing Zionist Israeli newspaper, then owned by Conrad Black.
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Kenneth Stern is the AJC's specialist on "anti-Semitism and extremism". Stern focuses on "anti-Zionism and anti-Israel related anti-Semitism found among academics and in curricula, and considered the issue of academic freedom". He is a proponent of Hate Studies, a discipline AJC has pioneered in the United States.
Affiliations
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Yuri Stern was a MK (National Union), a leader the Knesset lobby for friendship with Christians which, after casting a broad web of ties across the United States, where it focused its activity until now, has recently turned to Europe and created an infrastructure for cooperation with Christian organizations and parties in the European Parliament -- its new target is Asia.
In 2006, he ...
John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931) was born into a prominent New England family, went to Williams College and then to Yale Divinity School. He left divinity school, however, and travelled for about two years between 1874 and 1876 to Greece, Constantinople, Egypt and Palestine. In 1879, at the age of 27, he returned to the United States and embarked upon an extraordinarily successful career as a pu ...
Isador Feinstein Stone (1907-1989; born 24 December 1907; Philadelphia). His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants who owned a store in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He studied philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and while a student he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1946, he was invited by the Palmach to be the first American journalist to accompany Jewish concentration camp surviv ...
William Grant Stratton (1914-2001) was elected as a member of the U.S. Congress for Illinois in 1940 and served 1941-1943. He then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and subsequently achieved the rank of lieutenant while serving in the South Pacific Campaign. On his return from service, Stratton was re-elected to the U.S. Congress and served 1947-1949. He subsequently became Governor of Illinois.
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Dr. Isaac Straus (1881-1933), merchant, industrialist; aided Weizmann in 1913-1914 in planning for Hebrew University; lived in Basel from 1924
... Born in Karlsruhe, Germany on 21 Dec 1881 to Samuel Straus and Isabella Feuchtwanger. He ...
Leo Strauss (1899–1973), a Jewish German-born émigré to the United States, is regarded as the intellectual father of the American neo-conservatives.
Strauss joined a Jewish fraternity and worked for the Zionist movement in Germany which gave him a network and knowledge of various important German Jewish intellectuals, from Norbert Elias, Leo Löwenthal, and Hannah Arendt to Walter Benj ...
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (1896-1974) was an American businessman, philanthropist, public official, and naval officer. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the U.S.
Strauss was the driving force in the hearings, held in April 1954 before a United States Atomic Energy Commission Personnel Security Board, in which J. Robert Oppenheimer's secur ...
William Studeman (1940-) is a retired Admiral of the United States Navy and former Deputy Director of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency, with two extended periods as Acting Director of Central Intelligence. As Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, he served in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations under Directors of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, R. James ...
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States. The organization developed in 1959 and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
A new incarnation of SDS was founded on 16 January 2006, Martin Luthe ...
Yifat Susskind was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Israel, but today she lives in New York City.
She was active in the Israeli women’s peace movement for several years. She directed a project for Palestinian political prisoners at the Alternative Information Center before joining the staff of MADRE (an internationa ...
Barry Raymond Swersky (1939-), of Ramat Hasharon, is a vice-president of Big Sky Energy.
Swersky received B.A. (1959) and LL.B. (1962) degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he served as Chairman of th ...
Sir Mark Sykes (1879-1919) was an English traveller and diplomatic advisor, particularly about matters respecting the Middle East at the time of World War One. He will always be associated with the Sykes-Picot Agreement, drawn up while the war was in progress, regarding the apportionment of postwar spheres of interest in the Ottoman Empire to Britain, France and Russia. Sykes was in Paris in co ...
Stuart Symington (1901-1988) was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force (from 1947 until 1950) and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri (from 1953 until 1976.)
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From Wikipedia (16 August 2007):
William Patrick Syring , who goes by his middle name of Patrick, (born 30 August 1957), an American career diplomat who was indicted on 15 August 2007, on charges that he left threatening
phone and e-mail messages with the Arab American Institute.[1]
Personal ...
Marie Syrkin (1899-1989) the daughter of Labor Zionist leader Nachman Syrkin, was born in Bern, Switzerland, and moved with her family to the United States in 1907. She was educated at Cornell University and taught in New York City high schools from 1925 to 1950. From 1950 to 1966 Syrkin taught English and humanities ...
Nachman Syrkin (1868-1924) was a political theorist and founder of Labour Zionism. He was a leader of the socialist Zionist faction at the First Zionist Congress in 1897 and was an early proponent of the Jewish National Fund. He was also the first person to propose that emigrants to Palestine form collective settlements ...
From the Fikra Forum profile
Andrew J. Tabler is a Next Generation fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at WINEP, where he
focuses on how the United States can engage with Syria in a way that best advances U.S.
interests.
A journalist and researcher, Andrew has achieved unparalleled qualitat ...
Orly Taitz (1962-), born in Moldavian SSR, is a dentist, real estate agent, and lawyer in Orange County, California, who is a leading figure in the "birther" movement which challenges whether Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as President of the United States; in addition, she promotes a number of other conspiracy theories, both related and unrelated to President Obama. Sh ...
Doron Avraham Tal was born on 5 Mar 1947 in Jerusalem on Mt. Scopus, Hadasa Hospital to Olga Ackerman and Israel-Menachem Türkel. He graduated B.Sc. Physics in 1974 and in 1977 he was qualified M.Sc. Electro-Optics and Molecular Physics (Techinon, Haifa, Israel). Since 1977 he has served as a civil servant with RAFAEL, Israeli Armament Development Authority, first 1977-1982 as a physicist, then ...
Jim Talent "campaigned for the United States Senate on a platform of health care, job creation, economic growth and national defense. Missourians elected him to serve the state in the U.S. Senate in November 2002. Previously, Sen. Talent served eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1 ...
Salim Tamari was born in Jaffa in 1945 but had to flee the city with his family in 1948.
He is the director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies (an institution affiliated to the Institute for Palestine Studies), and ...
Vera Tamari was born in Jerusalem in 1945. She studied fine arts in Beirut, ceramics in Florence, and completed her M.Phil in Islamic Art and Architecture in Oxford University. Since 1974 she has participated locally and internationally in shows with the League of Palestinian Artists, of which she is a member. She also participated in a number of group exhibits in Jordan, Stockholm, Sharjah (Bie ...
Aryeh Tartakower (1897-1982) ... sociologist and communal leader. He was born in Brody, in eastern Galicia, and taught at the Institute of Jewish Sciences in Warsaw. In 1939 he went to the US, where he was director of relief and rehabilitation for the World Zionist Action Committee. He settled in Palestine in 1946 and taught at the Hebrew University. From 1948 to 1971 he was chairman of the Israe ...
Jonathan Tasini is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in New York. For the past 25 years, he has been a union leader and organizer, a social activist, and a commentator and writer on work, labor and the economy.
...
John Taylor received an A.B. in Near Eastern Languages from the University of Chicago, a B.A. and an M.A. in Oriental studies from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Columbia University. He served two years active duty in the United States Army, reaching the grade of sergeant, and spent six years in the reserves. Before making his career in the oil and gas business in Texas, he worked in the M ...
Chaim Tchernowitz (1871–1949) born in Sebesh (district of Vitebsk), Russia ... Tchernowitz received a Ph.D. from the University of Wuerzburg in 1914. Settling in the United States in 1923, he taught Talmud at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York until his death in 1949.
As a publicist, Tchernowitz showed deep interest in the Zionist movement and in contemporary Jewish problems ...
Nechama Tec (1931-) is a retired professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.
She was born in Lublin, Poland to a family of Polish Jews, and was 8 years old in 1939 when Poland was invaded by Germany. She survived the Holocaust thanks to her life being saved by Polish Catholics. After the war she migrated to Israel and later moved to the United States, where she earned a d ...
Comverse Technology was founded in Israel in 1982 by Kobi Alexander.
The company operates primarily in the United States, although it still has major operations in Israel.
Alexander is (2009) living in Namibia, on the run from from t ...
Dr. Joseph B. Tenenbaum (1887-1961) was a US urologist, Zionist leader, and author.
He born in Sasow in Poland. During his years as a student he became involved in the Hashahar student youth organization. He served as a military doctor in the Polish army during World War I. In 1919, Tenenbaum represented the ...
Jonathan D. Tepperman is (2004) a senior editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.
Previously, he
worked as a speechwriter at the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG) and studied international and domestic law in the United Kingdom and the United States before coming to Foreign Affairs. He has worked as a journalist for a number of other publications, including the Jerusalem Post and the Forward.
...
Marc Thiessen is a neocon; he is the former spokesman for Jesse Helms, the paleo-right-winger. He was also a "speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004–2009) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–2004)." ...
James ('Jimmy') Henry Thomas, (1874-1949) was a British trade unionist and Labour politician. He was elected to Parliament in 1910 as the member for Derby, replacing Richard Bell. He was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in the incoming Labour government of 1924 under Ramsay MacDonald. In the second Labour government of 1929 Thomas was made Lord Privy Seal with special responsibilit ...
Virginia Tilley lives in South Africa, where she serves as Chief Research
Specialist in the Democracy and Governance Programme at the Human Sciences Research
Council in Pretoria. She holds a B.A from Antioch College, an M.A. from the Center
for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University (1988) and an M.A and Ph.D in
Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997). ...
Eva Marshall Totah (born Eva Marshall; 1895-1990) was active in a suffrage club at a Quaker college in Iowa. After graduation, she attended a drama school in Chicago and considered pursuing a career in acting, but then became involved in religious teaching instead. This took her to Palestine where she taught at the Friends school in Ramallah and married the Palestinian Quaker, ...
The
Transatlantic Institute is
a Zionist propaganda outfit based in Brussels.
According to this article in Ha'aretz, it
"a Jewish research institute whose declared aim is no less than strengthening the ties between the United States and the countries of the European Union (the undeclared aim is to ser ...
Josh Treviño is a commentator who has hardline zionist proclivities, e.g., urging the IOF to assassinate solidarity activists.
Guardian reports:
Today the Guardian announced the addition of Josh Treviño to its commentary team in the United States. Formerly of the Texa ...
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States.
The middle initial in his name did not actually stand for anything.
His parents chose "S" as his "middle name" in an attempt to please both of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.
Truman was a member of the pro-Zionist ...
The late Judge
Ya'acov Tsemach was president of the Jerusalem district court.
He was succeeded on the bench by Judge Mousia Arad.
Born in Iraq, Tzemach immigrated to Israel following the establishment of the state. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a doctorate at the Univ ...
Dr. Tingfu Fuller Tsiang (1895-1965), a scholar, educator, and diplomat, started his political career as the Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1936. After February 1938 he served as director of the political department of the Executive Yuan. Tsiang was named China's permanent representative to the United Nations in 1947, and was ambassador of Nationalist China to the United States from 19 ...
Mary Tuma ... Born in California in 1961, Mary Tuma began sewing and crocheting with her mother at an early age. Her love of these processes led her to begin her formal study of art as an apprentice at Beautiful Arts Hall in Kerdassa, Egypt, where she learned to weave tapestries. Later, she earned a ...
Karl Saben Twitchell (1885-1968) was an American mining engineer who conducted extensive surveys in the Middle East, Europe, and South America between 1915 and the 1950s.
He was (1944) a consulting engineer working for the Saudi Arabia Mining
Syndicate, and a former chief of the United States
Agricultural Mission to Saudi Arabia. ...
Jack Tytell (B: Nov. 1972) was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Mark and Dianne Tytell, American ultra-Orthodox Jews. His surname is sometimes incorrectly back-transliterated into Roman letters as Teitel .
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General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq (1924-1988) ruled Pakistan from 1977 to 1988. Zia-ul-Haq was the third person in the history of Pakistan to enforce martial law and halt civilian rule in the country.
He was born in Jalandhar (in India) in 1924 as the second child of a school teacher named Mohammad Akbar. He completed his initial education in Simla and then at St. Stephen's College in Delhi. ...
Alexander Petrovich Ulanovsky (aka Ulrich, William Berman, Nathan Sherman) (1895-1968?) was the chief illegal rezident for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) in the United States from 1931 until 1934.
Born into a Jewish family in the Ukraine, Ulanovsky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party as a youth. Arrested by the Tsarist Okhrana for radical activity, he was deported to Siberia wh ...
United Jewish Communities (UJC) is a zionist-American NGO. Jeffrey Blankfort writes:
Now, for those who will say that the UJC, former United Jewish Appeal, and the largest national Jewish charity,
doesn't really represent American Jewry, I refer them to its website:
United Jewish Communities represents and serves 155 Jewish federations and 400 independent Jewish ...
The United Nations Conciliation Commission was created by UN General Assembly Resolution 194, in order to conclude the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Following debate on the Bernadotte report, a UN General Assembly resolution on 11 December 1948 established the Conciliation Commission for Palestine, instructing it "to take steps to assist the parties concerned to achieve a final comprehensive ...
For an overview United States Institute of Peace (USIP) refer to this article by SourceWatch: USIP. Although the name of the institute contains the word "peace", this can only be interpreted as the Orwellian use of the word because most of the USIP members/fellows are neocons who favor wars or ...
Leon Uris (1924 - 2003), born Yerushalmi, was an American writer. His Polish-born father, Wolf William Uris (Yerushalmi), spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. His brother Yossi fought in the 1967 War.
His bestseller Exodus (1958) was immediately transla ...
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives. USCIRF's principal responsibilities are to review the ...
Haaretz reports:
In 2003, Asi Vaknin , a former co-owner of the modeling agency "Roberto", testified to police that the Abergil crime family was involved in selling the drug ecstasy in Los Angeles. Vaknin later left the United States after he was suspected of involvement in a series of crimes.
...
Eli Valley is the cartoonist for the Forward in New York. His work has been published in New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Saveur, Haaretz and elsewhere. He is (2012) currently finishing his first novel.
In the 1990s, he lived in Prague for four and a half years, working as a tour guide in the old ...
Dina Siegel Vann is (2006) director of AJC’s Latin America and Latino Institute.
From the AJC Experts biography:
Dina Siegel Vann, a native of Mexico City, serves currently as Director of the Latino and Latin American Institute
...
various other American Zionists ...
Ramin Ahmadi, Co-Founder, Iran Human Rights Documentation Project, New Haven
Fred Alford, Government, University of Maryland, College Park
Ronald Asmus, Executive Director, Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Daniel Bell, Sociology, Emeritus, Harvard University
David Bell, History, Johns Hopkins University
Sheri ...
In March of 1919 Rep. Julius Kahn (R.-Ca.), a Jewish member of the United States House of Representatives, presented to President Woodrow Wilson, at the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles, a petition opposing Zionism. This document was signed by two hundred and ninety-nine prominent American Jews from all over the U.S. The committee directly responsible for the document consisted of thirty on ...
Melanne S. Verveer (born 24 June 1944) is, since April 6, 2009, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. She is the former Chief of Staff to First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton and co-founder and chairman of the board of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international non-governmental organization that supports global women's leadership.
...
Albert de Vidas ...
On Sunday November 9, 1997, the KING of SPAIN, DON JUAN CARLOS I, awarded the order of the MERITO CIVIL to Dr. Albert de Vidas, editor of ERENSIA SEFARDI. The ceremony took place at the residence of Ambassador Jose Allendesalazar, Consul General of Spain in New York. Ambassador Allendesalazar presented the Medal and the Certificate of the MERITO CIVIL in the name ...
Rebecca Vilkomerson is (2009) the National Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. She has over fifteen years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, program development and fundraising in the United States and Israel. In the U.S., she focused on economic justice issues, especially regarding women. She has been an active member of JVP since 2002, and lived in Israel with her family from 200 ...
Baruch Charney Vladeck
(1886-1938 -- although some sources indicate 1882 or earlier) was born Baruch Nachman Charney in Russia, the fifth of six children. His father owned a small leather supply store and left it to the family when he died of tuberculosis in 1889, the mother raised the children on her own, working at a synagogue as a reader for other women. In the early 1900s, Charney joined th ...
Rudolf Vrba (1924-2006) and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, after Vrba's two years of imprisonment, in April of 1944. Their Vrba-Wetzler Report reached the governments of the Allies before the end of June, 1944 and alerted political and Jewish leaders for the first time to the true nature of the Nazi death cam ...
George Wadsworth II (1893–1958) was the American general-consul in Jerusalem in 1937.
He was the head of the US diplomatic mission in Syria in the mid-1940s:
Diplomatic Agent 1942-44; Minister 1944-47.
On September 15, 1941, Syria proclaimed its independence, with the approval of free French authorities. One year later, on October 9, 1942, George Wadsworth became the first U.S. dip ...
Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr., usually known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (1910-1991) served three terms as the mayor of New York City, from 1954 through 1965.
He was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of United States Senator Robert F. Wagner.
...
Mark D. Wallace is an American businessman, former diplomat and lawyer who has served in a variety of government, political and private sector posts. He served in several positions during the administration of George W. Bush, including as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Representative for UN Management and Reform.
He is currently the CEO of Tigris Financial Group Lt ...
Prof. Peter Walshe is (2004) a Professor of Political Science and a Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Walshe (B.A ...
Thomas Campbell Wasson (1896–1948) was an American diplomat who was assassinated while serving as the Consul General for the United States in Jerusalem, Palestine. Wasson was also a member of United Nations Truce Commission
...
From Watson's university biography:
Geoffrey R. Watson was born in Toronto, Canada, but he grew up in the northeast United States. He attended college
at Yale, from which he received a B.A. cum laude in history in 1982. He then enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he was a notes editor of th ...
Ben Wedeman is CNN's Cairo bureau chief. Named to this position in 1998, Wedeman joined CNN in 1994.
During his tenure at CNN, Wedeman has served as the network's Amman bureau chief and has reported extensively on the Middle East peace process as well as conflicts in Africa, Iraq and Kosovo. In 2003, Wedeman traveled to the Persian Gulf region to report on the war in Iraq.
We ...
Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood (1872-1943), MP, was one of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky's strongest backers and his colleague in the Seventh Dominion League. In 1928, Wedgwood issued a book, The Seventh Dominion , calling for Pal ...
Adolphus Leo Weil (1858-1938), a lawyer and Jewish communal worker in Pittsburgh, was member of the American Jewish Committee.
Weil was born in Keysville, Virginia. His father had immigrated to the US from Bavaria in 1839, first to Baltimore, MD, then to Richmond, VA.
A. Leo Weil graduated from th ...
Kurt Julian Weill (1900-1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage, as well as writing a number of concert works.
...
Alison Weir lives in Sausalito, California. She is the executive director of If Americans Knew and is a contributor to The New Intifada (Verso press) and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.. She traveled extensively throughout Gaza and the West Bank in winter, 2001, as a freelance reporter, and h ...
Fred E. Weisgal (1919-1991)
Barbara Mills' book synopsis:
Biography of Fred Weisgal, son of a noted cantor, roots in the shtetles of Eastern Europe, came to Baltimore, Maryland when three years old. He went on to become a pioneer in civil rights and civil liberties litigation, loved by many for his ribald humor, musical extravaganzas, and jazz piano playing. Immi ...
Michael Weiss is an American neoconservative who serves as the Executive director of Just Journalism, an Israel
lobby media flak group based in the UK.
From a Henry Jackson Society profile for a June 2011 event:
Michael Weiss is a widely published journalist and on human rights in Russia and the Middle East. He recently wrote HJS's Media Briefing: "Fatah-Hamas Reconcilia ...
Gertrude Weiss-Rosmarin (1908-1989) was a German Jewish writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. With her husband, she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York in 1933, and in 1939 founded the Jewish Spectator, a quarterly magazine, which she edited for 50 years.
Weiss-Rosmarin was born i ...
Rabbi Michael Dov-Ber Weissmandl is not as widely known as he should be.
He should be renowned for his work in rescuing thousands of Eastern European Jews during World War II -- the fact that he is not is due to his being a vehement critic of the Zionists for not doing more to save European Jewry.
He is, however, well known among the subset of ultra-Orthodox Jews that are anti-Zionist, for seve ...
Franz Werfel was a German language novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was a contemporary and colleague of Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Martin Buber, and other Jewish intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century. He served in the Austrian army both on the Russian front and in the press office, but was charged with treason for his vocal pa ...
Born in the United States, David A. Wesley moved from Detroit to Israel as a young adult in 1955 and received his PhD in Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. For some years, he lived in a kibbutz before moving to Jaffa.
It has been alleged that
his writings have been promoted by the Zionist ...
John Whitbeck is an American lawyer who writes frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2003, he appears to be teaching law in France. He has also lived in Saudi Arabia and other countries.
His articles have been published in leading newspapers is many countries, including Australia, Egypt, Israel, ..., Lebanon, ..., United States.
His "Two States, One Holy Land" framework for peace ...
Manya Wilbuschewitz (c.1868-1961) ... married Israel Shohat who was several years younger than she was; some sources say the age difference was 6, others say 9. They had two children, Anna and Gideon (Geda) Shohat.
In 1971, Geda's daughter married ...
Rich Wiles is a British photographer and human rights activist. He is the Coordinator of International Relations at Lajee Center (for Refugee Youth and Children) in Al-Aida Refugee Camp where he directs collaborative youth arts projects; he has also run similar projects in UK schools. His photos have been published by t ...
Alexander H. Wiley (1884–1967) was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963.
...
Josef Wilkansky was (1920) head of the Zionist Commission's Agricultural Department in Jerusalem. In late 1919 the Zionist leadership in London sent Wilkansky to the United States in search of information and techniques that would help Jewish settlers in Palestine avoid mistakes made by farmers in geographically sim ...
William Appleman Williams
was born in Iowa in and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He served in the Pacific in World War II.
After the war, he took a PhD in History at the University of Wisconsin.
was a prolific and influential writer of a dozen revisionist books that challenged prevailing views of American history, deploring the United States as an imperialist power pressing its ...
Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest but as a child emigrated to New York where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the new Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi. However, unlike most Reform rabbis and congregants at that time, Wise was a Zionist. He attended the Second Zionist Congress in 1898 and was elec ...
James D. Wolfensohn spent 11 months, until April 2006, as the Middle East envoy of the Quartet (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations).
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Joseph Wolff (1795 - May 2, 1862), Jewish Christian missionary, was born at Weilersbach, near Bamberg, Germany.
His father became rabbi at Württemberg in 1806, and sent his son to the Protestant lyceum at Stuttgart. He was converted to Christianity through reading the books of Johann Michael von Sailer, bishop of Regensburg, and was baptized in 1812 by the Benedictine abbot of Emaus, ne ...
Harry Wolfson (November 2 1887–September 19, 1974) was a scholar, philosopher, historian, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Department in the United States. He was a professor at Harvard University for approximately half a century, and was a student and friend both of George Santayana and George Foot Moore. He wrote works such as a translation and commentary on Hasdai Crescas' Ohr Hashe ...
Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo (aka Sholom Ber Wolpe), (born 1948) is a prominent religious author and political activist in Israel and a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group – SOS Israel – an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israe ...
"Women in Black" are groups of Jewish women who protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The group started as a group of Jewish women dressed in black who would protest for an hour or two per week in Jerusalem -- holding placards and the like. Several groups in the United States immitated them, holding similar symbolic protests, and also claiming the "women in black" m ...
Franklin Lamb comments:
Of course our American problem is
not just our Congress. The Israel lobby-picked and packed Executive Branch is not much more supportive of American
values and international norms. To the shame of the US State Department, its spokesman, Robert Wood sullied and
humiliated America when the hapless fellow refused to answer even a simple media ques ...
Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He writes the "Thinking Right" column at the AJC, a "conservative column". From his published comments one can determine that he is a hardline zionist.
Memorable quotes
Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian puppet-masters have won the moment. In provoking Israel to bomb a village,
...
Herman Wouk is a writer of best-seller novels.
He was born in New York into a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He entered Columbia University, New York where he edited the college humor magazine. After completing an A.B. degree at Columbia University, he became a radio scriptwriter, working with Fred Allen from 1936. In 1941 he briefly served the U.S. government, producing radio broadca ...
Prof. Philip Quincy Wright (1890–1970) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work and expertise in international law and international relations.
He visited Palestine in 1925 and reported that the Arabs there regarded the Balfour Declaration as "a gross violation of the principle of self-determination proclaimed by the Allies."
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, W ...
Brigadier-General (retired) Yitzhak (Yatzeh) Yaakov, a veteran of the Palmach, was the head of research and development in the Israel Defense Forces. He was arrested in 2001 and interrogated for 18 months on suspicion of espionage. Yaakov, a resident of the United States, arrived in Israel in 2001 to celebrate his 75th birthday. The morning after the celebration, he was arrested and detained for ...
Temur Iakobashvili (born 1967) is a Georgian-Israeli who is (2008) State Minister for Reintegration.
Described in this article in Ha'aretz as "a former Zionist leader who speaks fluent Hebrew", Iakobashvili was born into a Georgian Jewish family in Tbilisi. He graduated from the Department of Physics at T ...
General Aharon ("Arale") Yariv (1920-1994) was head of Israeli Army Intelligence in the period 1964-1972.
Born in Moscow, USSR,
- Joined the Hagana in 1939
- Served in British Army with rank of Lieutenant Colonel
- Adjutant of Hagana Chief of Staff, 1 ...
Yaffa Yarkoni (1925-) was born in Palestine and began her career as a singer in a coffee house in Givatayim owned by her mother. She served in the Givati Brigade in the 1948 War and appeared in the army choral troupe. She later traveled and performed extensively in the United States, and she has rec ...
Moshe Yaroni the pseudonym of a longtime student and professional in Middle East analysis and peacemaking. He has described himself as follows:
Moshe Yaroni is the nom de plume I’ve chosen. I am an American Jew who has spent his life engaged in study and work to bring about a peaceful future for Israel and the Palestinians. Needless to say, the photo is not of me. Rather, it is Asher Gi ...
Manhigut Yehudit is a right-wing group connected to Moshe Feiglin. In 2000 he joined Likud.
In this article, Ron Pressler reports:
Arranging for Manhigut Yehudit to join the Likud in 2000 was ...
David Yerushalmi, a Jewish lawyer variously described as being based in New York City and in Chandler, Arizona, has been described as a "white supremacist" and "hate-group leader". See below.
Richar Silverstein reports:
In ...
Wolf William Yerushalmi was born in Poland. He spent a year in Palestine after World War I, then immigrated to the United States where he changed his last name to Uris. Leon Uris was his son. ...
Charles Woodruff Yost (1907-1981) was born in Watertown, New York, on November 6, 1907. Prior to attending Princeton University, he traveled throughout Europe and was interviewed by his local newspaper, The Watertown Daily Times. After graduating from Princeton U ...
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and was the United States' first African American ambassador to the United Nations. In Summer 1979, Young was fired as U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations for holding secret peace talks in Vienna with a member of the PLO.
His Wikipedia ...
Michael Young is (2004) opinion editor of The Daily Star in Lebanon.
He is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine; his magazine profile. He is the author of The Ghosts of Matyrs Square: An Eyewitness Ac ...
Ruth Z ... was planning to marry Yehuda Amichai but moved to the United States in August 1947 and wrote to him in April 1948 saying she was going to marry somebody else ... was born in England to a Zionist German-Jewish family ... moved to Palestine in 1927 ... attended school in Talpiyot (where, at least one source ...
Israel Singer Zamir, the son of Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, is a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa at the foot of Mount Gilboa.
For 31 years, he was a journalist at Al Hamishmar, the now-defunct socialist newspaper, where he reached the position of deputy editor. Zamir wrote several novels, a biography - "Isaac Bashevis Singer, My Father" - and a play, staged by Habima ...
Gabriele Zamparini was born in Italy in 1968. After completing his Law studies he moved to the United States. He worked in New York as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. He currently lives in London. ...
Haaretz reports:
Early one morning in spring 2004, police officers from the Tel Aviv central unit knocked on the door of Yoram Zarfati 's home in Jaffa. Zarfati is the son of Mordechai Zarfati, the trucking company owner known as an underworld mediator and was close to leaders of Mapai, the precursor of the Labor Party. The search of Zarfati's home turned up the mos ...
Dr. Jean Zaru was born in Ramallah to a Quaker family. During the 1948 war, she was eight years old. During the 1967 war, her oldest son was eight years old. She has raised three children and seven grandchildren under military occupation. In 1967 her husband was almost killed when the Israelis bombed Ramallah.
Dr. Zaru is one of the founding members of Sabeel, a Palestinian Lib ...
Philip D. Zelikow (born 1954) is best known as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. He also acted as the director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia until February 2005 when he was appointed Counselor of the United States Department of State ...
The Zionist Freedom Alliance ...
Franklin Lamb reports:
In an act of defiance against U.S. President Barack Obama's call for Israel to halt settlements, a
group of Jewish students from the United States spent last week working to develop them and declaring that henceforth the fight to save th ...
Avraham Zilberg (also known as Avraham Tahomi) was born in 1903 in Odessa in the Russian Empire. He migrated to Palestine. In 1925 he was appointed deputy commander of the Haganah in the Jerusalem District and in, 1929-1931, served as District Commander. In April 1931, he split from the Haganah and form the Irgun Zvei Le'umi
Tehomi tried to re-unite the two organizations and in 1937 returned ...
Anthony Zinni is (2004) retired from the US Marines, where he held the rank of general.
From 1997 to 2000, he was commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command, in charge of all American troops in the Middle East. Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, the Bush administration thought so highly of Zinni that it appointed him to one of its highest diplomatic posts -- special en ...
At the first Zionist Congress in 1897, an executive committee, called the Inner Actions Committee was elected to run the affairs of the Zionist organization between congresses.
A larger body, called the Greater Actions Committee was also ...
In 1918,
the
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) replaced the Federation of American Zionists, which had been founded in 1897. The ZOA sometimes uses 1897 as its date of foundation and, consequently, claims that it is the oldest pro-Isr ...
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E.
Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University,
Zipperstrein was born in Los Angeles, he graduated UCLA, taught at Oxford University for six years, and returned to California where he was Associate Professor in Jewish History at UCLA from 1987-1991 and then came to Stanford. He has helped build Jewish Studies ...
Zirin is the author of What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket). He is a sports commentator for Air America and XM Radio's 'On the Real' with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel.
Zirin's writing has appeared in THE SOURCE, Common Dreams, The College Sporting News, basketball.com, alternet, The Black Sports Network, Counterpunch, Dodgers Dugout, sports-central.org, T ...
Norman L. Zucker is a professor in the Department of Political Science
at the University of Rhode Island.
Zucker (Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1960) taught at Rutgers, Northeastern, and Tufts Universities before coming to URI in 1966. He is the author of Desperate Crossings: See ...
Stephen Zunes is an associate professor of politics and chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. He serves as senior policy analyst and Middle East editor
of the Foreign Policy in Focus project and as a research associate at the Center for Global, Int ...
Constantine Zureik (born Damascus 1909-2000), a prominent Arab intellectual and academic, was one of the pioneering theorists of modern Arab nationalism. He developed some ideas, such as the "Arab mission" and "national philosophy", which were to become key concepts for Arab nationalist thinkers, and in more recent years was a strong proponent of an intellectual reformation of Arab society, empha ...
Stefan Zweig ... (1881–1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.
Zweig was the son of Moritz Zweig, a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida (Brettauer) Zweig, the daughter of an Italian banking family. He studied philosophy and the history of literature, and in Vienna he was associated with the avant garde Young Vienna movement. Religion did not pla ...
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