Patrons
The Patrons of Jewish Network for Palestine
Jeff Halper
Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist and political activist. He is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. He is the author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (2015) and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine (2021).
Stephen Kapos
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Prof. Ronit Lentin
Dr Ronit Lentin is a political sociologist, activist and former director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict, Trinity College Dublin. Her books, on race and immigration, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine, include Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism (2018), and Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine, and the Criticism of Israel (with D. Landy and C. McCarthy, 2020).
Ken Loach
Ken Loach is a film director. His films tell stories of working class life, from Cathy Come Home and Kes to Land and Freedom, My Name is Joe, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and I, Daniel Blake.
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes is an award-winning actress, political activist and advocate for social change. She is an active campaigner for the LGBTQ+ community, and has been a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party since the 1970s. “It is our duty as human beings to report the truth as we see it.”
Prof. Nur Masalha
Nur Masalha is a Palestinian historian and Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary’s University, UK. He is also Professorial Research Associate, Department of History, SOAS (University of London). He is interested in decolonising and social activism, theologies of liberation, and ‘history from below’.
Margaret Owen OBE
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Prof. Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published 15 books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and The Biggest Prison on Earth (2017).
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle is an actor, author, and stand-up comedian of Jewish descent. Novelist, keen cyclist and podcaster, Sayle is originally from a communist household in Liverpool. He is also a patron of Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Prof. Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim is professor emeritus of international relations at St Antony's College, Oxford University and a regular contributor to The Guardian. He is the author of Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009), The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2014), and Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (2023). He is an Arab Jew of Iraqi origin.
Dr Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian novelist, political and cultural commentator, and founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, Pal Fest. She is the author of The Map of Love (1999), Mezzaterra (2004), Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012) and writes regularly for The Guardian on Egypt and Palestine.
Clare Short
Clare Short served as MP for Birmingham Ladywood for 27 years. She served as Secretary of State for International Development under PM Tony Blair, and resigned from Government in 2003 in opposition to the British invasion of Iraq. She is also a patron of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.