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Well Known People Who Speak Out
Our freedom will never be complete until the Palestinans are free (Nelson Mandela)
these brave Israeli youths are being jailed for having a conscience...
Brave Israeli soldiers from Breaking The Silence
These people are beautiful, calm non violent human beings. They refuse to kill innocent children and drive people from their ramshackle homes. It must be so difficult to resist the tidal wave of paranoia created by governmental demagoguery and made worse by their crimes comitted in the name of security. If only the Israelis who are willing to kill Palestinian civilians could just make a supreme effort to put themselves in the shoes of the people they thing should be attacked for "security". Weren't their own grandparents rounded up into Ghetos and treated in a similar way before they were so tragically killed? Have they learnt no compassion from their own history or are many of them really believing they are a superior type of Human Being to the Arab - I thought their DNA was quite similar? But anyway arent we all equal human beings?
Another Israeli soldier refuses to join in the War Crimes in GAZA. Ashraf Shannon describes how Israeli airforce has fired at ambulances as they tried to tend to the civilians who were illegally targetted and burnt by the horiffic and illegally used White Phosphorus.
just a few of the many WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
who speak out in defence of the oppressed Palestinians and against Netanyahu's Brutal Oppression
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| Name | Nationality | Profession | Details | Sources | Photo & | |
| Allegra Pachero | Israeli | |||||
| Hanan | Ashrawi | Palestinian | legislator, activist, and scholar | Ashrawi received an Honorary Doctoral Degree at the American University of Beirut on June 28, 2008 as part of an award ceremony coinciding with the university's 139th commencement.[9] She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Palestine Studies.[10] Ashrawi holds honorary degrees from Earlham College and Smith College. Ashrawi is a passionate advocate of many human rights and gender issues. She is the recipient of numerous international peace, human rights and democracy awards, such as the Olof Palme Award, the Defender of Democracy Award, the Jane Addams International Women's Leadership Award, the Distinguished Alumna Award of the University of Virginia Women's Center, the Distinguished Lifetime Achievements AUB Alumni Award, and the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation.[2] |
Dr Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (b. October 8, 1946) is a Palestinian Christian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégé and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace process, and has been elected numerous times to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Ashrawi is a member of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Third Way party.[1] |  |
| Amira | Haas | Dr Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (b. October 8, 1946) is a Palestinian Christian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégé and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace process, and has been elected numerous times to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Ashrawi is a member of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Third Way party.[1] On 27 June 2001, Hass received the Golden Dove of Peace Prize awarded by the Rome-based organization Archivo Disarmo.[7] |
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| Michael Sfard | Israeli | Lawyer | Michael Sfard, (born 1972), is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law and the laws of war. He has served as counsel in numerous important cases on these topics in Israel. Sfard is identified with the left and has represented many left wing and Palestinian organizations at the Israeli Supreme Court. Sfard has represented the families of three foreign citizens who died as a result of IDF activities in the territories: the family of British photojournalist James Miller, who died in Rafah (Gaza), and the families of two activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who died during the course of their activities in separate incidents. These two cases involved Tom Hurndall, who died in Rafah, and the American Rachel Corrie, who was run over in Rafah by an IDF Caterpillar D-9. A similar case involved the International Solidarity Movement's (ISM) Brian Avery, who was wounded during the course of his activities in Jenin. Avery was injured by IDF soldiers in the head, and suffered from clinical facial mutilation and numerous related medical problems. Sfard represented him in his efforts to obtain a criminal investigation of the incident. In the framework of this effort a petition was presented to the Supreme Court that instructed the Military Advocate General to open an investigation, which is currently being conducted (2007). [10] Sfard has represented foreign workers in their efforts to obtain Israeli citizenship. Sfard represented a number of adoptive parents in the Ethics Tribunal of the Israel Press Association in a petition against Yediot Achronot regarding an article that determined that children adopted from abroad become criminals and prostitutes at high rates as adults. Yediot Achronot was forced to publish an apology as well as the tribunal's ruling in the newspaper. The tribunal ruled that if the petition had been filed not only against the newspaper, but also against the reporters, the ruling would have barred those reporters from practicing journalism. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sfard
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