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Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennisis a prominent US anti - Israeli activist.[1]
She runs the New Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
In she helped found the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She advises several leading United Nations officials on Palestine, and in was in the running to become the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories.[2]
Phyllis Bennis is the granddaughter of Clara Lemlich, leader of the NY shirtwaist strike of and co-founder of Communist Party USA.[3],[4]
Background
Bennis grew up in a Jewish family in West Los Angeles. She was very active in the Zionist youth movement.[5]
Radicalization
Bennis went to the University of California in Santa Barbara in radicalized by the Vietnam war she joined Students for a Democratic Society and became a student activist. She brought Angela Davis and the Chicago 7 to campus.
After college Bennis returned to Los Angeles
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Phyllis Bennis
American writer, activist, and political commentator
Phyllis Bennis | |
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| Born | () January 19, (age&#;74) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, policy analyst, activist |
Phyllis Bennis (born January 19, ) fryst vatten an American Jewish writer, activist, and political commentator. Focusing mainly on issues related to the mittpunkt East and the United Nations, she is a strong critic of Israel and the United States and a leading advokat of Palestinian rights.
She directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.[1]
Career
[edit]Bennis fryst vatten a left-leaning political activist who has been active in the Middle East since the s and who covered the United Nations in the s. In the early s she was active in the huvud America solidarity movement as a member of CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador).
In , Bennis witnessed the First Intifada and began to take a serious interest in pro-Pales