Advisory Board

Udi Aloni Filmmaker, writer, and visual artist, Freedom Theater of the Jenin refugee camp

Ed Asner Actor and Emmy award winner

Rabbi Buzz Bogage Director of Jewish Life, Depauw University

Daniel Boyarin Professor of Talmudic Studies, UC Berkeley

Judith Butler Professor, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley

Debra Chasnoff Academy Award winning documentary maker

Sami Chetrit Film producer, poet, professor of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley

Noam Chomsky Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author and lecturer

Rami Elhanan Member of Israeli-Palestinian Parents Forum; lost daughter to a suicide bombing

Eve Ensler Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and feminist activist

Ronnie Gilbert Actress, singer, former member of the Weavers

Goapele Popular musician & performer

Rabbi Lynn Gottleib Cofounder of Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence and The Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point

Adam Hochschild Author and journalist

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Author, scholar, founding director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Naomi Klein Journalist, syndicated columnist, author and activist

Tony Kushner Playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner

George Lakoff Professor of cognitive linguistics, UC Berkeley

Aurora Levins-Morales Poet, essayist, historian

Rela Mazali Writer and Co-founder of Israel's New Profile

Robert Meeropol Younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, founder and Executive Director of Rosenberg Fund for Children

Michael Ratner Academic, activist, attorney, author and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit human rights litigation organization

Adrienne Rich Poet and writer, winner National Book Award

Sarah Schulman Writer, playwright and historian. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York

Wallace Shawn Actor and playwright

Michael Shimkin Microcredit, community organizing and development activist. Founder, the Shimkin Foundation.

Avi Shlaim Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman Congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, Wisconsin

Campaigns

Palestinian prisoners hunger strike

A new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance is being written. Right now.

Thank you, 60 Minutes

On April 22, Bob Simon and the U.S. news show 60 Minutes shared a painful truth with 13 million viewers — the fact that the primary cause for the exodus of Palestinian Christians from the Holy Land is the nearly 45 year-old illegal Israeli occupation. Now 60 Minutes is being attacked for telling the truth.

Standing Against Islamophobia

We stand by our Muslim friends and neighbors against anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry.

Young, Jewish, and Proud

Watch the Video of Young Jews "Occupying the Occupiers!"

TIAA-CREF: Divest from the occupation

Ask one of the largest financial services in the United States to divest from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation.

Israeli Artists Condemn Settlements

When some 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights signed a letter stating they would refuse to play in the new theatre in Ariel, one of Israel's largest settlements, the attacks from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel's Minister of Culture and Sport and many others were swift and intense. Over 150 leading Israeli academics and writers- including Amos Oz and David Grossman- came to their defense.

Campus divestment

Students around the country are calling for investor activism to address human rights violations against Palestinians. Download our full statement on BDS.