Since it was publicly launched three days ago, the JFPROR statement has been met with remarkable enthusiasm. Individual responses have included the following:
Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada): “Beautiful!”
Mezna Qato (US Palestinian Community Network): “Absolutely beautiful.”
Dr. Ghada Karmi, M.D.: “An excellent statement which gets at the heart of the Palestinian cause. All people of conscience must sign it.”
Max Blumenthal: “I was proud to join so many outstanding people in signing.”
Stuart Bramhall (Daily Censored): “Profoundly moving.”
Eric Carwardine (Australia): “To see both the Right of Return and the single-state concept combined in the same policy is truly inspiring.”
Beyond the 40 initial signers, the statement has been embraced by 400 endorsers of various ethnicities, religions and/or nationalities. Notably, these additional endorsers include the people and organizations below.*
Adam Horowitz’s posting of the statement on Mondoweiss has generated extensive debate. It is also online at Al Awda NY, Electronic Intifada, Sabbah Report, Twitter, Topsy, Socialistworker.org, IMEU, AnthonyLowenstein.com, Independent Australian Jewish Voices, and Anti-Imperialista.
More than 700 people have joined the Facebook Event page, and the JFPROR website has had more than 1300 hits.
To help escalate this momentum, please:
1. Share the statement as shown athttps://jfpror.wordpress.com/ on your website, Facebook page, Twitter, etc.
2. Ask media and others to do the same.
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*Additional Signers and Endorsers (Partial List: Full list periodically updated at: https://jfpror.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/additional-endorsers-and-statements-of-support/)
Stephen Aberle, Vancouver, BC, Independent Jewish Voices
Deborah Agre, Berkeley, CA, USA, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Ruth Bader, Australia, German-Jewish/Australian, daughter of Holocaust survivors
Ronnie Barkan, Tel-Aviv, Boycott from Within
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Journalist
Dalit Baum, Israeli feminist teacher and activist
Nancy J. Bell, Rossville, GA, United States Student Ambassador for Peace to Israel (1978)
Medea Benjamin, Codirector, Codepink
Mark Berman, Playwright
Rima Berns-McGown, Toronto, Writer and Adjunct Faculty, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Elizabeth Block, Toronto, Independent Jewish Voices
Audrey Bomse, National Lawyers Guild, Free Gaza
Dennis Brasky, Profesor – Political Science – Rutgers University
Dr. Clint Le Bruyns, Director & Senior Lecturer of Theology & Development Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Estee Chandler, Founding Member, Jewish Voice for Peace, L.A. Chapter
Prof. Roger Dittmann, CSU Fullerton
Mark Elf, Jews sans frontieres
Nada Elia, Seattle WA, Professor, Antioch University
Prof. Sam Farber, NYC
Gary Fields, Associate Professor, UCSD
Alexei Folger, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area
Maxine Fookson, Portland, Oregon, Jewish Voice for Peace
Richard Forer, Author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion –
A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English, Univ. of Hawaii
Racheli Gai, Tucson Women in Black, Jewish Voice for Peace
Kamran Ghasri, Israel Divestment Campaign
Dr. Terri Ginsberg, NYC; film scholar; Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Neta Golan, Palestinian Territories, ISM
Nathan Goldbaum, ISO, Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, Chicago Teachers Union
Steve Goldfield, Ph.D., Oakland, CA, Former chair, Palestine Solidarity Committee, former editor, Palestine Focus
Jean R. Goldman, Miami Beach, Women in Black
Sue Goldstein, Toronto, Women in Solidarity with Palestine
Marty Goodman, NYC, Former Executive Board member, Transport Workers Union Local 100
Cathy Gulkin, Toronto, Independent Jewish Voices, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
Georges Gumpel, Union Juive Française pour la Paix
Freda Guttman, Montreal, Tadamon!
Abe Hayeem, Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (U.K.)
Annette Herskovits, Berkeley, Holocaust survivor, writer, and activist
Rebecca Hom, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network-U.S.
Bec Hynek, Sydney, Australia, Socialist Alternative
Jews Opposing Zionism, Not In Our Name – NION (Canada)
Riva Joffe, London, Jews Against Zionism
Ramsey Judah, Los Angeles activist and Immigration Rights Attorney
Alex Kane, Assistant Editor, Mondoweiss.net and World editor, AlterNet
Dan Kaplan, Executive Secretary, AFT Local 1493, San Mateo, CA Community College Federation of Teachers
Asaf Kedar, Zochrot
Alice Diane Kisch, Emerryville, CA, Jewish Voice for Peace
Ghada Karmi, UK Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Steve Kowit, American poet, Professor emeritus, Southwestern College
L.A. Jews for Peace
Labor for Palestine
Melanie Lazarow, University of Melbourne
Howard Lenow, Sudbury, MA, Union Attorney, Founder American Jews For A Just Peace
Leah Levane, London, Jews for Justice for Palestinians
Brenda Lewis, Guelph, Ontario, child of Holocaust survivor
Abby Lippman, Montreal, Professor Emerita, McGill University
Jennifer Loewenstein, Madison
Henry Lowi, IDF veteran
Alex Lubin, Professor, American University of Beirut
Helga Mankovitz, Kingston, ON, Independent Jewish Voices
Richard Marcuse, West Vancouver, BC, Independent Jewish Voices
Waldo Mermelstein, Sao Paulo
Gail Miller, NY, Passenger, U. S. Boat to Gaza–The Audacity of Hope
Mirna Miranda, U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation
New York City Labor Against the War
Prof. Hilton Obenzinger
Akiva Orr, Matzpen
Kevin Ovenden, London, Palestine solidarity activist, Respect Party
Peter Rachleff, Saint Paul, Professor of History, Macalester College
Fanny-Michaela Reisin, Jewish Voice for a Just Peace – EJJP Germany
Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, Chair, British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
Martha Roth, Vancouver BC, Independent Jewish Voices
Cheyl A. Rubenberg, Boca Raton, Professor (retired)
Sara Saba, Esq., Princeton, NJ Attorney and Human Rights Activist
Margot Salom, Brisbane Australia, Just Peace for Palestine
Gabriel M Schivone, Tucson, Ad Hoc Steering Committee member, National
Students for Justice in Palestine
Angelika Schneider, German Branch Fellowship of Reconciliation
Christiane Schomblond, Brussels, Belgium, professor retired from University of Brussels
Ralph Schoenman, Vallejo, CA., Author: Hidden History of Zionism
Yossi Schwartz, Haifa, Internationalist Socialist League
Scientists Without Borders
Amanda Sebestyen, IJAN UK, JfJfP, JBIG, IJV
Sid Shniad, Vancouver, BC, National Steering Committee, Independent Jewish Voices
Mya Shone, Author, The Hidden History of Zionism and other works
Abba A. Solomon, Author of The Speech, and Its Context
Sonoma Valley Peace & Justice
Peter Sporn, Oak Park, Illinois, Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
Marsha Steinberg, BDS LA for Justice in Palestine
Cy & Lois Swartz, Philadelphia, Grandparents for Peace in the Middle East
Prof. Barry Trachtenberg
Matthew Taylor, Berkeley, founding member, Young Jewish and Proud group
within Jewish Voice for Peace
USACBI: US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Dominique Ventre, French Jewish Union for Peace; International Jewish Anti-
Zionist Network France
Viva Palestina Australia
Stuart Ward, Chairperson, Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Thailand
Judith Weisman, Toronto, Independent Jewish Voices, Not in Our Name
Suzanne Weiss, Toronto
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Founder member, Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods
Bekah Wolf, Co-Founder, Palestine Solidarity Project
Tamar Yaron, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel, founder & moderator: Encounter-EMEM for international Israel-Palestine peace activities
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return 