Week 17: The Nation-State Law Online Gathering

We learned about the discriminatory Nation-State Law in Israel. Our guest was journalist and author Jonathan Cook.

More about our guest:

Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001.

He is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

• Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish State (2006)
• Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (2008)
• Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (2008)

You can find him on his website https://www.jonathan-cook.net and follow him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Jonathan.Cook.journalist/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook

From the Session/Chat

These are organizations in Israel that have opposed the Nation-State Law and in general stood with Palestinians despite political and public pressure.

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
https://english.acri.org.il
mail@acri.org.il

B’Tselem
https://www.btselem.org
mail@btselem.org

Gisha
https://gisha.org
info@gisha.org

Gush Shalom
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/
info@gush-shalom.org

Molad
http://www.molad.org/en/
info@molad.org

New Israel Fund
https://www.nif.org
nif@nif.org.il

Rabbis for Human Rights
https://www.rhr.org.il/eng
office@rhr.org.il

Ta’ayush
https://www.taayush.org
info@taayush.org

These are a few of the prominent Israeli authors, journalists, and thinkers that have opposed the Nation-State Law.

Amira Hass
Journalist with Haaretz
@Hass_Haaretz on Twitter
amira@haaretz.co.il

Gideon Levy
Journalist with Haaretz
@levy_haaretz on Twitter
levy@haaretz.co.il

Hagai El-Ad
B’Tselem director
@HagaiElAd on Twitter

Yuval Noah Harari
Author
@harari_yuval on Twitter
https://www.ynharari.com/contact/

Ilan Pappe
Historian
@pappe54 on Twitter
I.Pappe@exeter.ac.uk

Peter Beinart
Author/commentator
@PeterBeinart on Twitter peter.beinart@journalism.cuny.edu

You could start with something like:

Hello. I’m writing as part of the Kumi Now community…. I wanted to let you know that we greatly appreciate all of the time and effort you’ve put into opposing the Nation-State Law and advocating for a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine.