Nurit Peled-Elhanan

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Nurit Peled-Elhanan at a session of the European Parliament

Nurit Peled-Elhanan (* 1949 ) is an Israeli peace activist and professor of comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is one of the founders of Bereaved Parents for Peace (German: Bereaved Parents for Peace ) . After the death of her 13-year-old daughter in 1997, she became an open critic of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza .

biography

Peled-Elhanan is the daughter of the late IDF general , scholar and politician Mattityahu Peled and of Rami Elhanan, co-founder of the Parents Circle - Families Forum . Peled-Elhanan is the mother of three boys and one girl. Her son Elik, born in 1978, is also an activist.

Their only daughter, Smadar Elhanan, was the victim of a suicide attack on September 4, 1997, when she was 13 years old in the Ben Jehuda pedestrian street in the center of Jerusalem . Peled-Elhanan took this as an opportunity to deal with the reasons for terrorism and the situation of the Palestinians in the occupied territories. In their opinion, one of the problems is the aversion of Israeli society to the Palestinians. Miko Peled, her 12 years younger brother, who was previously rather apolitical, took Smadar's death as an opportunity to deal with the history of his family and the related relationship between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in his first book and to develop a differentiated understanding of the Develop reasons for the conflict.

In 2001, Peled-Elhanan received the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament together with the Palestinian writer Izzat Ghazzawi .

Fonts (selection)

  • Palestine in Israeli school books. Ideology and propaganda in education . London: IB Tauris, 2012, ISBN 1-78076-505-3 .
  • Legitimation of massacres in Israeli school history books. In: Discourse & Society 21.4 (2010), pp. 377-404.
  • Speech at a demonstration in Tel Aviv commemorating 40 years of occupation. In: Middle East Policy 14.3 (2007), pp. 41–44.
  • Dialogue in the Israeli classroom. Types of teacher-student talk. With Shoshana Blum-Kulka. In: Language and Education 20.2 (2006), pp. 110-127.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elazar Elhanan: A Yid is in Goles , in: Charlotte Misselwitz; Cornelia Siebeck (Ed.): Dissonant memories - fragmented present: exchanging young discourses between Israel and Germany . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009 ISBN 978-3-8376-1273-8 , pp. 209-216
  2. ↑ Miko Peled: The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine . Schwabe AG, Zurich 2017, ISBN 3-85990-291-1 , introduction ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ 1999-2009 Laureate Sakharov Prize. European Parliament, accessed June 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Peled-Elhanan, Nurit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli literary scholar and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949