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Uri Davis is a "serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state," according to British journalist Jonathan Cook. Justin White of the blog Taming Korach describes him as "Islam's New Tool." He has been called worse. Davis is an Israeli Jew (he prefers the descriptor 'Hebrew Palestinian') who
[Fatah] projects itself as the main plank of the PLO, which is fine, and the PLO projects itself as the representative of the Arab-Palestinian people. The ANC in South Africa did not just project itself as the representative of the oppressed nonwhite people of South Africa, but as the democratic alternative of ail the people, nonwhite and white. The official statements of Fatah and the PLO say nothing that projects themselves as the democratic alternative to Zionism that would offer a decent future for all. That chapter is missing. One of the reasons I ran for a seat on the Revolutionary Council was to work to get that missing chapter included.From 1976 to 1984, 1 divided my time between teaching at the University of Bradford in the U.K. and returning to Palestine and Israel, where I was deeply involved in Palestine solidarity and human rights activity. I was a well-known activist by then. In 1984, 1 was invited to Tunis by Abu Jihad [a Fatah founder and military leader] to meet with him and Yasser Arafat. I was recommended for membership in Fatah. I was invited by Arafat to attend a conference of the Palestine National Council in Amman, and I was made a member of the Palestine Council. Abu Jihad at that time developed a front known as the Western Front ("western" meaning west of the River Jordan]. It consisted of military and political activities inside Israel. I had nothing to do with the military activities, but I took part in the political activities.See the full content of this document
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Heresy of a 'Hebrew Palestinian'
Uri Davis is a "serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state," according to British journalist Jonathan Cook. Justin White of the blog Taming Korach describes him as "Islam's New Tool." He has been called worse. Davis is an Israeli Jew (he prefers the descriptor 'Hebrew Palestinian') who
once headed the PLO London Bureau, and who currently holds a seat on the Fatah Revolutionary Council.He was born in 1943 in Jerusalem. His mother was a Je...See the full content of this document
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