Simone Susskind

I am back from the United States where I took part to the Board meeting of the « New Israel Fund » (www.nif.org)
During 30 years of existence, NIF raised funds, essentially in the US and distributed around 200 millions $ to hundreds of Israeli NGOs, which are active in the fields of social justice, human rights, minority [...]

Je rentre des Etats-Unis où j’ai participé à la réunion du Conseil du “New Israel Fund” (www.nif.org).
Durant 30 années d’existence, le NIF a réuni des fonds, essentiellement aux Etats-Unis et a distribué près de 200 millions de $ à des centaines d’ONG israéliennes qui œuvrent dans les domaines de la justice sociale, des droits de [...]

Une matinée tellement enrichissante, faite d’échange et d’écoute mutuelle!
Partage de textes, d’idées, réactions à l’actualité. Tout ceci au menu de cette rencontre. Echange de vues sur la laïcité juive, sur le conflit au Moyen-Orient… et tant d’autres choses!
http://www.leprieure.be/

J’ai été parmi les fondateurs de Music Fund, ce magnifique projet qui permet à des jeunes en Palestine, en RDC et au Mozambique, d’avoir accès à des instruments de musique et qui forme des réparateurs d’instruments dans ces pays. Nous avons réunis plus de 400 instruments lors d’une collecte exceptionnelle d’instruments de musique à Madrid.

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You are cordially invited to meet with 4 members of the Israeli-Palestinian association “Combatants for Peace”. The organisation is composed by former Palestinian combatants and former Israeli soldiers who fight against the occupation by non violent means.
The encounter will take place at the European Parliament: Wednesday 27 January 18.00-20.00,
Room PHS 7C 050
To register: contact: [...]

This opinion from my friend Hassan Khader, in Al-Ayyam is worth while reading!
Hassan has worked during many years with the great Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, publishing the literary review: Al Karmel.
He lives now in Berlin.

The following is a quote from a Reuters article published in the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi on November 30:
“Princess Ferial, 71, [...]

A must read!!!! in David Shulman’s blog in the New York Review of books
“As a result, hundreds of Israelis, many of them young people joining the struggle for the first time, take off Friday afternoons to march through town and then demonstrate, courting arrest and harassment, in Sheikh Jarrah; the clumsy attempts by the Jerusalem [...]

An article by Henry Siegman in The Nation,7 January 2010
Henry Siegman, director of the U.S./Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of [...]

Haaretz Editorial

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1140300.html

MJ Rosenberg has worked during 18 years within the US administration. From 1998 until recently, he was the Director of Policy Analysis for Israel Policy Forum (IPF) in Washington. He is actually a Senior foreign policy fellow at Media Matters, a non-profit progressive research and information center.
The title of his article: No Vacation from Mideast
http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/201001040001