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[This is a statement first crafted by Harold Pinter and other British Jews and recently endorsed by those listed below.
TO ADD YOUR NAME CLICK HERE MAKE SUBJECT: ENDORSE JEWISH STATEMENT or send an email to mail@thestruggle.org
Over 200 signers as of May 19, 2008
We Will Not Be Celebrating
In May, Jewish organizations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel.
This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-Semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasized, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Nakba is to the Palestinians.
In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar
attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation.
This authorized the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population
outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating.
In July 1948, 70,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in Lydda and Ramleh
in the heat of the summer with no food or water. Hundreds died. It was known as the Death March.
We will not be celebrating.
In all, 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. Some 400 villages were wiped off the map.
That did not end the ethnic cleansing. Many thousands more when Israel occupied the West Bank
and Gaza. Under international law and sanctioned by UN resolution 194, refugees from war have
a right to return or compensation. Israel has never accepted that right. We will not be celebrating.
We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession
of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages
in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment
on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations.
We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
Paula Abrams-Hourani
Vienna, Austria
Miriam Adams
Albuquerque NM
Shmuel Amir
"The Left Bank" site
Tel Aviv
Vered Amit
Professor
Montreal, Canada
Prof. Zalman Amit
Concordia University, Canada
Henry Ascher, MD, PhD, Assoc. Professor
The Sahlgrenska Academy
University of Gothenburg
Göteborg, Sweden
Dr. Abigail Bakan
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada
Tsela Barr
Graphic Designer
Keren Batiyov
Jew of Conscience
Arlington, VA
Maya Beasley,
Professor, CT
Aja Beasley,
designer, Chevy Chase, MD
Gary Benenson
New York, NY
Murray & Marcia Bernstein
Brooklyn, New York
Rudolf Bkouche
UJFP
Lille, France
Dr Barbara Bloch
University of Technology Sydney
Elizabeth Block
Toronto, Canada
Professor Hagit Borer
University of Southern California
Prof. Daniel Boyarin,
UC Berkeley
Hanna Braun; teacher (retired)
London; UK
Mark Braverman, Ph.D.
Activist, writer, psychologist
Jews of Conscience
Lenni Brenner,
author, Manhattan
Ellen Brotsky
Cancer Resource Specialist
Berkeley, CA
Tom Brown
Oakland, CA
Eleanor Brussel
Los Angeles, CA
Dan Burnstein,
lawyer, Boston, MA
Jorge Buzaglo
Paola Canarutto
Ellen Cantarow
writer, musician, teacher
Smadar Carmon
Not in Our Name
Toronto
Ruth Clark
James Cohen
Dept. of Political Science
University of Paris-VIII
Ken Cornet
Washington CT USA
Justice of the Peace
co-producer: The Questioning Citizen TV
Elias Davidsson
composer
Iceland
Richard Deaton, Ph.D., LL.B.
Ottawa , Canada
Judith Deutsch,
Toronto, Canada
Psychoanalyst, Vice-President Science for Peace
Gordon Doctorow
Teacher
Toronto, Canada
Sibylle Elam Dolder
labor unionist
Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Eglin
Shraga Elam
journalist, Zurich, Switzerland.
Daniel Epstein
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Hedy Epstein
St. Louis, MO, USA
Holocaust survivor, who visited the West Bank five times since 2003 &
plans to sail to Gaza in 8/08 (see: www.freegaza,org);
St. Louis
Women in Black
Stephen S. Farha
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dror Feiler
Stockholm
Sweden
Pnina Feiler
Judith Fieldstone,
Chevy Chase, MD
Joel R Finkel
Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago
Shana Frank
teacher
Vermont
Ruth Fruchtman
writer
Berlin,
Germany
Racheli Gai
Israeli-American activist,
Tucson, Arizona.
Ron Ganzfried
Association Swiss-Palestine
Cheryl Gaster
Lawyer
Mediator, Human Rights Activist
Toronto, Canada
Alisa Gayle-Deutsch
Dr. Miriam Garfinkle
Ronnie Gilbert
Singer, Actor
Mendocino, California
Sherna Berger Gluck
California, Professor Emerita,
Member of SWANA (South and West Asia and North AFrica) Collective of KPFK/Pacifica
Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
Israeli
Action Advocacy Officer
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
ICAHD, Jerusalem
Neta Golan
Peace activist and mother
Ramallah
Sue Goldstein
artist and anti-zionist activist
Toronto
Cy Gonick
Canadian Dimension magazine
Jepke Goudsmit
Coogee, Australia
Tony Greenstein
Political activist, Secretary Brighton Unemployed Centre and UNISON
Andy Griggs
California, teacher; union and human rights/social justice activist;
Francoise Gross
Freda Guttman
International Middle East Media Centre
Beit Sahour, West Bank, Occupied Palestine
Arlene Halfon
Washington, DC
Barbara Harvey
Attorney
Detroit, Michigan
Iris Hefets
student, berlin, Germany
Batya Hecker
Adam M. Helfgott
Substitute Teacher, Middletown, CT
Stanley Heller
host "The Struggle" TV News
Connecticut
Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass
Jerusalem
Louis Hirsch
Chicago, IL
Kathy Hucks
West Hartford, CT
Philippe Jacob
Jake Javanshir
An ex Israeli. Now in Canada
Bette Jones
member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians
Michael Kalmanovitz
International Jewish Solidarity Network
UK
Stephen Kamnitzer
Mark Kaswan
Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Los Angeles, CA
Jenny Kastner
I am a grandmother, retired community organizer, and anti-zionist activist.
Teddy Katz
Israel
Bruce Katz
Montreal, Canada
Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta
Burnaby, BC Canada - dual Canadian/Israeli citizen;
proponent of joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle to end the occupation
Michal Kaiser-Livne
Psychotherapist
Berlin, German
Iris Keltz
writer/teacher
survivor of the '67 War
New Mexico
Mira Khazzam
member Jewish Independent Voices, Montreal
PAJU (Palestinians and Jews United)
Alisa Klein,
Israeli and U.S. Citizen, Public Policy Consultant, Northampton, MA
Judith Kolokoff
Seattle WA
Yael Korin,
UCLA Research Scientist, Los Angeles, Ca
Dennis Kortheuer S. Ph. D.
Lecturer, Department of History
California State University, Long Beach
Edwin Krales,
Activist,
New York City
Jason Kunin, teacher
Educators for Peace and Justice
Toronto, Canada
Fey Kurd
Carole LaFlamme, Women in Black-Los Angeles
Susan Landau
Philadelphia, PA
Felicia Langer
Right Livelihood Award
(Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate) 1990
Mieciu Langer
Tuebingen/Germany
James Marc Leas
lawyer
South Burlington, Vermont
Lazer Lederhendler
Montreal, Canada
Andy Lehrer,
National Steering Committee,
Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians.
Lynda Lemberg
Howard Lenow
Vice Chair, Jewish Voice for Peace
David Letwin
Teacher/Theater Artist
Brooklyn, NY
Michael Letwin
Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War
Former President, Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325
Rebekah Levin
teacher/ researcher
Oak Park, IL
Joseph Levine
Dept. of Philosophy
Univ. of Mass
Lesley Levy
Independent Jewish Voices Montreal
Canada
Lillian Laskin
L.A. Jews for Peace
Abby Lippman
Montreal, Quebec
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
Micki Ezri Longum
Teacher/counsellor
Oslo/Norway
Antony Loewenstein
author/journalist/co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices
Sydney, Australia
Jennifer Lowenstein
Director, Middle East Studies Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Henry N. Lowi
Barbara Lubin
Middle East Children's Alliance
www.mecaforpeace.org
Dr Anat Matar
Tel Aviv
Hilda Meers
peace activist and writer, Senior Citizen, member of Scottish Jewsfor a Just Peace
(UK)
Peter Melvyn
Vienna, Austria
Hannah Mermelstein
Philadelphia, US
Hajo G. Meyer, Ph D (theor. Physics)
survivor of Auschwitz for 10 months,
former Director of Research, Philips Electronics Cy in the Netherlands,
Author of The End of Judaism and
Tragic Fate, The German Jews, Paragon and Victim of the Effects of Forces in History,
Roirand Michele
France
Linda Milazzo
Writer/Educator/Activist
Los Angeles, CA
Mark B. Miller
Rachella Mizrachi.
Dorinda Moreno,
usa
fuerzamundial/we are the ones
sybersysters for peace in the mideast
Haskell Musry
Sydney Australia
OHS Professional
Dorothy Naor
American-Israeli (residing in Herzliah, Israel)
activist against Israel's occupation of Palestinians and Palestine
Rosemary and Milt Neidenberg
Brooklyn, NY
Rosemary and Milt Neidenberg
Brooklyn, NY
Sheryl Nestel, PHD
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Toronto
Michael Neumann
Peterborough, Ontario
Alex Nissen
Victoria, Australia
Dr. Marcy Newman,
Associate Professor of English, Boise State University
Henry Noble
National Secretary
Freedom Socialist Party
Seattle, WA
Judith Norman
Professor, Texas, USA
Henry Norr
Berkeley, California, USA
Prof. Bertell Ollman,
NYU
Norah Orlow,
Jerusalem
political activist
Esther Ouray
Cultural activist and Hebrew school teacher
Minneapolis
Judith
Mahoney Pasternak
New York City
Jean Pauline
Oakland, California
Bay Area Women in Black,
Tamar Pelleg-Sryck
Tel Aviv, Human Rights lawyer.
Daniel Piper
Hartford, CT
Gabriel Piterberg
UCLA
Lillian Pollak
Karin Pally
Santa Monica, CA
Karen Platt
member of Jewish Voice for Peace, Albany, CA
Vivienne Porzsolt
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Alice Powell, psychologist and peace activist
Rachel Roberts
Miami, FL
Stewart Robinson,
retired professor of Mathematics, Cleveland Ohio
Chengiah Rogers Ragaven
former political prisoner from South Africa
Visiting Professor
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven
Diana Ralph, Ph.D.
Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians
Ottawa, Ontario
Susan Ravitz
Easton, PA
Judy Rebick
CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Dorothy Reik
Prof. Dr. Fanny-Michaela Reisin
TFH Berlin
Stewart Robinson
Retired Prof of Mathematics
Jewish voices for Peace
Cleveland Ohio
Marta Romer
Sydney, Australia
Amit Ron
student
Haifa, Israel
Rachel Rosen
Toronto, ON
Carl Rosenberg
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Herman Rosenfeld,
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Emma Rosenthal
Cafe
Intifada
The Los Angeles Palestine Labor Solidarity Committee
André Rosevègue
Talence, France
UJFP
Martha Roth, Jews for a Just Peace,
Vancouver, B.C.
Marty Roth,
Professor Emeritus,
University of Minnesota
Alice Rothchild
physician, cochair Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston
author and activist
Sandra Ruch
Toronto, ON, Canada
Mark Rudd
Teacher and Organizer
Albquerque, New Mexico
Lori Rudolph
Visiting Professor
New Mexico Highlands University
Ben Saifer
Not In Our Name - Ottawa
Carol Sanders
Activist with Jewish Voice for Peace
Bay Area, California
Margot Salom
Retired Social Worker, Writer
Brisbane Australia
Angelika Schneider
Lilienthal, Germany
Elaine G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
USA
Ellen L Shifrin
Michèle Sibony
Coprésidente de l'Union Juive française pour la Paix
Dr. Hagit Shlonsky
Jerusalem, Israel
Rich Siegel
Advisory Board, Deir Yassin Remembered
Teaneck, NJ USA
John Sigler
Jewish Friends of Palestine
http://wwwjewishfriendspalestine.org
One State Bibliography Project
http://www.onestate.org
Robert Silverman
Judith Simon
Fighter for Justice
Saugerties NY, USA
Phyllis Solomon, senior citizen and great-grandmother,
Seal Beach Leisure World in California.
Doris Soroko
Barrytown, NY
Mindy Spatt
San Francisco, CA.
Jakub Srebro
Stockholm, Sweden
Greg Starr,
Jews for a Just Peace,
Vancouver, BC,
Canada
Burton Steck
Chicago
Vera Szoke
Pro-Palestinian activist (Jewish)
Baylah Tessier-Sherman
Hartford, CT
Gene Tishauer
ESL Instructor and Assessor
Toronto District School Board
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Ethel Tobach
Jane Toby
Catskill, New York
Roger Tucker,
webmaster of www.one-state.net , Hillsborough, NC
Naomi Binder Wall
Women In Solidarity With Palestine
Toronto, Ontario
Darlene Wallach, San Jose, California, substitute high school teacher,
working with the Free Gaza Movement to break the siege of Gaza summer
2008.
Donna Wallach,
Anti-Zionist Activist, San Jose, CA
Bill Weinberg,
writer, radio producer, WBAI, New York City
Judith Weisman
psychotherapist
member Not in Our Name (NION)
Toronto, Canada
Barry Weiss
Jewish Anti-Zionist
Los Angeles, CA
Eric Weissberg
Musician
Woodstock NY
Abraham Weizfeld
Co-founder Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians
Montréal, Québec
Elana Wesley
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Marcy Winograd
Los Angeles, CA
teacher/activist
Julie Wornan
Member of Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) and Femmes en noir
de Paris
Paris, France
b.h. Yael
video artist
Toronto
(currently in Ramallah)
Saria Idana J. Young
Los Angeles CA
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