- Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born), was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and the Nobel Peace laureate of 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter's presidency saw the creation of two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
- Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, …
- Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 - March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. She was killed when she tried to obstruct an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozer operating in Hai as-Salam, a Palestinian area of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt, an area the IDF had designated a security zone. The circumstances of Corrie's death are disputed.
- Benny Morris
Benny Morris (born in 1948) is an Israeli historian and unofficial leader of the New Historians, a group of scholars who dispute the mainstream historical view of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Known for his work on the history of Palestinian refugees and his refusal to perform reserve duty in the West Bank, Morris was widely seen as an Israeli sympathizer of the Palestinian cause, and his work was very often cited and praised by pro-Arab writers.
- Dennis B. Ross
Dennis Ross Ross is a distinguished fellow and counselor for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ross played the leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was this country's point man on the peace process in both the Bush and Clinton administrations.
- Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953), is an American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an op-ed contributor to "The New York Times", whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization.
- Amira Hass
Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem.
- Neve Gordon
Neve Gordon is an author and professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who writes on issues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. He has been published in The Nation, WRMEA and Counterpunch. Gordon has become known through his strong criticism of Israeli policies, as well as a controversy involving Steven Plaut in which Gordon successfully sued Plaut for libel.
- Tanya Reinhart
Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" and longer articles to the "CounterPunch", "Znet", and "Israeli Indymedia" websites. Reinhart studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem as an undergraduate, where she later received an M.A. in comparative literature and philosophy.
- Amos Oz
Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Baruch Goldstein
Baruch Kappel Goldstein (December 9 or December 12, 1956-February 25, 1994,) was an American-Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Arab attendants of the Ibrahimi Mosque (within the Cave of the Patriarchs) and wounding another 150 in a shooting attack.
- Mustafa Barghouti
Mustafa Barghouti (Arabic مصطفى البرغوثي also transcribed Mustafa Barghouthi, Mustafa Al Barghuthi, Dr Barghuthi; born 1954) is a Palestinian democracy activist. He was a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005, finishing a distant second to Mahmoud Abbas. Barghouti was born in Jerusalem.
- Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish (born c. 1949) is an Arab-American writer and public speaker. She is the author of the book "Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror". She is also a public speaker and founder of Arabs for Israel. The outspoken daughter of a "shahid" (martyr), Darwish attributes her father's death to "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth".
- Alison Weir
Alison Weir is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization If Americans Knew, which focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with particular focus on media coverage of the issue
- Tom Hurndall
Thomas "Tom" Hurndall was a British photography student, member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. On April 11, 2003, he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sniper, Taysir Hayb. According to witnesses, this occurred while he was acting “as a human shield, …
- James Miller
James Henry Dominic Miller (December 18, 1968 - May 2, 2003) was a Welsh cameraman, producer, and director, recognized with numerous awards. He often worked with Saira Shah, with whom he set up an independent production company called Frostbite Productions in 2001. He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces on May 2, 2003 while filming a documentary in Rafah. On April 6, 2006, an inquest jury at St Pancras Coroner's Court in London returned a verdict of unlawful killing, …
- Nayef Hawatmeh
Nayef Hawatmeh (kunya Abu an-Nuf, b. 1935/37 in Salt, Jordan), is a Palestinian politician. His name can be transliterated from the Arabic in many ways; variants include Naif Hawatma, Niaf Hawathme, etc. Hawatmeh hails from a Greek Orthodox Bedouin tribe. He is the General Secretary of the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) since its formation in a 1969 split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), …
- Yahya Ayyash
Yahya Abdal-Tif Ayyash was the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the Samaria battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In that capacity, he earned the nickname "the Engineer" (المهندس, transliterated "Al-Muhandis"). Ayyash is credited with advancing the technique of suicide bombing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bombings he orchestrated caused the deaths approximately 90 Israelis, many of them civilians.
- Elyakim Rubinstein
Elyakim Rubinstein (born 1947) was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external politics, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Born in Tel Aviv, he earned his bachelor's (1969) and master's (1974) degrees from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and launched a career in law, …
- Brian Avery
Brian Avery (born 1979) is a former volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who was injured in the face on April 5, 2003 while working for the ISM in the West Bank town of Jenin.
- Orla Guerin
Orla Guerin is the BBC Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. She has extensive experience having been based in many areas including Jerusalem (where she reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), the West Coast of the USA, Southern Europe, Kosovo, Macedonia, the Basque country in northern Spain, and in Moscow, where she covered the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000. She first came to attention as a journalist and foreign correspondent with RTÉ News.
- Salah Khalaf
Salah Khalaf (Arabic ص&;#1604;اح خ&;#1604;ف), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic أ&;#1576;و إ&;#1610;اد) (born 1933 - January 14, 1991) was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat. He was assassinated in Tunis in 1991 by an Abu Nidal operative.
- Brian Klug
Brian Klug is Senior Research Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford and a member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. He is associate editor of "Patterns of Prejudice", a peer-reviewed journal examining social exclusion and stigmatization, and a founder member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, …
- Wafa Idris
Wafa Idris was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the time of her death, Idris was a 28 year old, divorced Red Crescent paramedic. She lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah. Idris detonated a 22-pound bomb in Jerusalem that killed her, an 81 year old Israeli man and injured more than 100 others. The attack probably took place on 27 January, 2002 although it was not reported in the press until 28 January 2002 (The Daily Telegraph, …
- Brit Shalom
Brit Shalom (lit. "covenant of peace";, "Tahalof Essalam"; also called the Jewish-Palestinian Peace Alliance) was a group of Jewish intellectuals, founded in 1925. The original "Brit Shalom" sought a peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews, achieved by a Jewish renunciation of the Balfour Declaration. It supported the establishment of a bi-national regime under the British Mandate, where both Jews and Arabs would enjoy equality.
- Dennis Bernstein
Dennis Bernstein is an American left-wing writer, broadcast journalist, and activist who is notably critical of the policies of the Israeli government vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the producer and host of "Flashpoints," a daily investigative news program, on radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California (part of the Pacifica network).
- Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948) is a professor of history. Wasserstein's area of interest is Jewish history. He is currently teaching at the University of Chicago, but has taught previously at the University of Glasgow, Smith College, Brandeis University and Oxford University, where he studied.
- Israel Border Police
The Israel Border Police is the combat branch of the Israeli Police. It is also commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Magav (Hebrew: מג"ב), meaning border guard, whilst its members are known as "Magavnikim" (Hebrew: מגבניקים). Border Guard is often used as the official name of the Israel Border Police in English.
- S. Daniel Abraham
S. Daniel Abraham is an American businessman who was born and raised in Long Beach, New York. He is frequently included in Forbes list of the 400 wealthies Americans, and is notable for his introduction of the Slim-Fast beverage in the late 1970s. A long-time donator to The Democratic Party, Abraham gave $1.5 million to the party and ranked as the number one contributor of soft money to the national parties in 2000.
- Wendy Campbell
Wendy W. Campbell, is an La Quinta, California-based documentary film-maker and writer, born in 1951 in Tallahassee, Florida. She received a BFA in Printmaking and an MS in Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Campbell is a self-professed "anti-Zionist" and "Pro-Palestinian" activist. She formed "MarWen Media" with partner and boyfriend Mark Green, a host of local cable access show, "Flashpoint". Campbell is also a real estate agent.
- Ahmad Sa'Adat
Ahmad Sa'adat is a Palestinian politician, and Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Saadat took over as leader of the PFLP in October 2001. He stands for a more radical position within the PFLP, encouraging the dismantling of Israel as a soveriegn state, rejecting the Oslo Peace Process and demanding the right of return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants into all parts of the former British mandate Palestine.
- Mohammad Amin Al-Husayni
Mohammad Amin al-Husayni was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a Palestinian Arab nationalist and a Muslim religious leader. Known for his anti-Semitism and his opposition to Zionism, al-Husayni fought against the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. To this end, Husayni collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II and helped recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.
- Jamal Al-Husayni
Jamal al-Husayni, (b. 1893-1982), was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the influential Husayni family. Husayni served as Secretary of the Palestinian Arab Action Committee (1921-1934) and the Muslim Supreme Council. He was founder and chairman of the Palestine Arab Party and its delegate to the Arab Higher Committee, led by Amin al-Husayni. During the Great Arab Revolt he escaped first to Syria (1937) and then to Baghdad, Iraq (1939).
- Muhammad Abu Tir
Muhammad Hassan Abu Tir (also known asShei Abu Mus'ab, born 1951 in Umm Tuba, East Jerusalem, now Jerusalem) is the No. 2 candidate in the Palestinian political party Hamas. Abu Tir, a moderate politician by Hamas standards, was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) as a representative to his East Jerusalem constituency in the Palestinian legislative elections that were held on January 25, 2006.
- Chris Hondros
CHRIS HONDROS was born in New York City in 1970. After receiving a Master's degree photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communications, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting. Hondros has photographed in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s and his work has appeared in every major international magazine.
- Ami Popper
Ami Popper (born 1969) is an Israeli convicted of murder. Popper, a former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his army uniform on 20 May 1990 and asked men waiting at a bus stop in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion for their identity cards. After confirming they were Arabs he lined them up and opened fire, killing seven. Within an hour, he was arrested by Israeli police. After his act, Arab riots led to the deaths of seven more Palestinians, and 700 injured.
- Michael Gawenda
Michael Gawenda is an Australian journalist and was editor of "The Age" from 1997 to 2004. He was born in a refugee camp in Austria just after the end of the Second World War. His family moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1949, where he attended a state school. He studied economics and politics at a university. He started his career in 1970, joining "The Age" as a cadet journalist. In 1997 he became an editor and in 2003 the editor-in-chief.
- Ghadir Mokheimer
Ghadir Mokheimer was a Palestinian girl. On October 12, 2004, at the age of 10, she was hit in the chest by Israel Defense Force gunfire. Critically wounded, she died the following day. The IDF claimed it was firing back at the source of shells targeting its troops. Some sources, including CNN which cited locals, reported she was inside her UNRWA-run school in the city/refugee camp of Khan Yunis when she was shot.
- Maxim Ghilan
Maxim Ghilan was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union, the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical "Israel and Palestine Political Report". Ghilan was born in France in 1931, but grew up in Spain. He moved with his mother to Palestine in 1944, after his father had been abducted by the fascist movement of Francisco Franco, …
- Benny Brunner
Benny Brunner is an Israeli–Dutch filmmaker based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish and Israeli modern history, and inspiring individuals are the subject matters of his films. Brunner has written, directed, and produced documentary films internationally since the mid 1980s. He does not believe in neutrality, balance or objectivity in documentary filmmaking, especially when state power is used to dominate the occupied, underprivileged, …