r/JewsOfConscience AMA Archive

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Updated as of 12/19/24

• Rafael Shimunov, co-host of Beyond The Pale: Radio’s Home for the Jewish Left on NY’s WBAI 99.5FM, creative activist and founder of ArtvWar.

• Andrey X, jounalist and activist in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Andrey X regularly captures the everyday reality in the OPT for Palestinians and the activists who work alongside them to safeguard communities.

Updated as of 8/15/24

• Rabbi David Mivasair, a retired activist rabbi that has been involved with Israel & Palestine for more than 50 years. Rabbi Mivasair has lived in Israel & returned a number of other times. They are an active member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada and the rabbinic council of Jewish Voice for Peace in the U.S.A. Since October, Rabbi Mivasair has helped fundraise for the Palestinians of Gaza who are suffering extreme deprivations due to the ongoing genocide and 18+ year blockade.

• Alex Kane, senior staff writer for Jewish Currents. Alex writes on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, with a focus on Israel/Palestine and post-9/11 civil liberties.

Updated as of 1/25/24

• Suheil Yassin, Palestinian member of One Democratic State Initiative (ODSI), a movement which calls for the creation of 'a democratic, civic state where all people irrespective of their ethnic, religious or other identitarian backgrounds can live in peace and security.'

Updated as of 8/21/23

• Michael Arria, independent journalist/author and U.S. correspondent for Mondoweiss, covering U.S. politics as it pertains to human rights in Palestine.

• (via r/Palestine) Israeli anti-Zionists Peleg Bar Sapir & Omri Evron. Peleg & Omri are members of the Communist Party of Israel, a joint Palestinian and Jewish party in Israel. Peleg is a member of Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East & Omri was an IDF conscientious objector.

• Dave Reed, product manager at the Mondoweiss website & producer of the Mondoweiss Podcast. Mondoweiss is an independent news website devoted to informing readers about developments in Israel/Palestine and related US foreign policy.

• Dr. Yaara Benger Alaluf, historian & activist, member of "Academia for Equality" where she led campaigns against the silencing of critical voices in Israel and around the world, and currently the Coordinator of Community & Education for the Israeli NGO, Zochrot.

• Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago - formerly served as rabbi of Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC), Midwest Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Now, co-founder of Tzedek Chicago, the first American synagogue known to officially adopt anti-Zionism as a core value.

• Israeli-American activist Dr. Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

• Dr. Marc H. Ellis of Baylor University, Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor Univ..

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