Michel Warschawski

Michel Warschawski (2014)

Michel (Michael) Warschawski (* 1949 in Strasbourg ) is an anti-Zionist Israeli peace activist and author. He was chairman of the Israeli- Palestinian organization Alternative Information Center (AIC) and was convicted in 1989 for supporting the terrorist group Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine .

biography

Michael Warschawski was born in Strasbourg in 1949 as the son of a chief rabbi . In 1965, at the age of 16, he went to Jerusalem to study the Talmud . In 1967 he joined the Trotskyist and anti-Zionist organization Matzpen ("Compass"), whose magazine of the same name he published from 1971 to 1984. From 1967 to 1971 he studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 1982 he co-founded the organization Yesh Gvul ("There is a limit"). In 1984 he founded the Alternative Information Center . Until 1999 he was chairman there, and since 2000 deputy chairman of its steering committee. From 1985 to 1987 he was together with Feisal Husseini spokesman for the Committee Against the Iron Fist .

In 1987 he was arrested for "supporting illegal Palestinian organizations" and in 1989 sentenced to thirty months in prison for editing George Habasch's article on the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , which Israel, the EU and the US classify as a terrorist organization would have. In 1990 his sentence was reduced to 20 months, eight of which he served. Since his release from prison he has continued to work for the AIC and has represented the organization in the World Social Forum since 2001 . Since 1992 he has been a member of the Gush Shalom organization .

Warschawski supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign . In 2005, together with Dominique Vidal from Le Monde diplomatique and Leila Shahid, the representative of the Palestinian Authority to the EU , he gave several lectures on the Middle East conflict in several cities and banlieues in France . These lectures sparked heated discussions, including in Le Figaro ; some school events were banned.

Warschawski is married to the lawyer Lea Tsemel and has two sons and a daughter.

Publications

Books

• (with Gilbert Achcar ) The 33 Day War . Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and its consequences, Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-89401-539-8 .
• (with Sophia Deeg, Michèle Sibony (ed.)): Voices of Israeli dissidents . New ISP Verlag, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-89900-113-3 .
• Le défi binational ( The binational challenge ; Paris, Textuel 2001), ISBN 2845970188 .
• With hellish pace . The crisis of Israeli society (Hamburg, Nautilus 2004), ISBN 3-89401-448-2 (original title: À tombeau ouvert ); from it online in English: The New Israel ( Monthly Review )
• At the border (with a foreword by Moshe Zuckermann ; Hamburg, Nautilus 2004), ISBN 3-89401-431-8 . (Original title: Sur la frontière )
• Les banlieues, le Proche-Orient et nous ( The suburbs, the Middle East and us ; together with Dominique Vidal and Leila Shahid; Paris, l'Atelier), ISBN 2-7082-3855-8 . From it online: La révolte annoncée des banlieues, inquiétude et espoir (Le Monde diplomatique)

items

• Israeli Politics in a Post-Sharon Era (Monthly Review)
• Article in International Viewpoint , Journal of the Fourth International :

Web links

• Literature by and about Michel Warschawski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Philipp Gessler: "Israel is on the way to hell" Interview with Michel Warschawski (taz)
• Ludwig Watzal : Israel is hurtling towards doom (taz)
• Alexandra Senfft: Respect for the difference (taz)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - An attack and its consequences . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on June 5, 2018]).
2. ↑ Audrea Lim (editor): The Case for Sanctions Against Israel , London and New York 2012, ISBN 9781844674503 , p. 193 ff
3. ↑ Roland Kaufhold : Israelische Grenzgänger review in haGalil