B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.
Source :
https://www.btselem.org/about_btselem
Board Members :
Chair: Orly Noy, left-wing Mizrahi activist, writer and editor on the web-based blog magazine +972, translates Farsi poetry and prose into Hebrew.
Thair Abu Rass, Political science PhD candidate, University of Maryland.
Meir Amor, Professor of Sociology, Concordia University, Canada.
Smadar Ben Natan, attorney and political activist. Specializes in human rights and criminal law. A founding member of Gun-Free Kitchen Tables, a feminist project aimed at minimizing the number of guns in the public sphere.
Ido Blum, attorney, partner at a law firm specializing in administrative and public law.
Ron Dudai, sociologist. His research interests are human rights, political violence and punishment; is co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice.
Elias Khouri, attorney in private practice who specializes in real-estate law and administrative law.
Vered Madar, academic folklorist; teaches at the Keshet School, Jerusalem.
Osama Tanous, pediatrician and public health and health policy researcher.
Attorney Sawsan Zaher, human rights lawyer and former deputy general director at Adalah- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
David Zonsheine, Senior high-tech executive for the past twenty years. Active in business development and works at integrating Arab society into Israeli high-tech. Initiated the iChange plan for increasing the number of Arab faculty members in the scientific disciplines in Israeli universities. Writes op-eds and literary reviews for Israeli daily Haaretz.
Public Council :
Adv. Hussein Abu Hussein
Chava Alberstein
Gila Almagor-Agmon
Nora Grinberg
David Grossman
Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld
Rona Kenan
Makram Khoury
Clara Khoury
Miki Kratsman
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
Prof. David Kretzmer
Dr. Alon Liel
Prof. Avishai Margalit
Rivka Michaeli
Amal Murkus
Rabbi David Rosen
Prof. Yigal Schwartz
Prof. Alice Shalvi
Prof. Sammy Smooha
David Tartakover
Prof. Neta Ziv
B'Tselem cherishes the memory of public council members who have passed away :
Ruth Dayan
Aluf Hareven
Ronit Matalon
Prof. Sasson Somekhn
Amos Oz
Dani Karavan
Victor Shem-Tov
Abraham B. Yehoshua
You have to recognize some of these names nu ???
At least David Grossman, Ruth Dayan ,Amos Oz and Abraham B. Yehoshua ???
If you guys think you know better then I suggest you come see for yourselves .
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