Righteous Jews commemorate the memory of Palestinians who have been depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, & murdered
RighteousJews.org was begun in 2003 as a way to commemorate the memory of those Palestinians who have been, and continue to be depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism and its quest to create a Jewish state in the lands between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. From its founding in 1897 the Zionist endeavors to "pump in" Jews and "pump out" Palestinians from this land have been the root cause of bloodshed and conflict. These racist endeavors have also been deeply problematic for those who believe in the basic tenets of Judaism of the prophets, namely justice and a duty to heal the world. RighteousJews.org was created to honor those who consider themselves to be Jewish and who have worked for the human rights of non-Jewish Palestinians. RighteousJews.org was inspired by the website of the most famous Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem, located on Mt. Herzl on the lands of the Palestinian village of Ein Karem 1,400 meters south of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Yad Vashem lists the names of over 19,000 non-Jews who risked their "lives, freedom, and safety in order to rescue one or several Jews from the threat of death or deportation to death camps without exacting in advance monetary compensation." For many years this list was referred to as the list of "Righteous Gentiles." Today it is more politically correct to refer to those who have made the list as the Righteous Among the Nations." According to the Yad Vashem website, "A person recognized as a 'Righteous Among the Nations' is awarded a specially minted medal bearing his name, a certificate of honor, and the privilege of his (or her) name being added to those on the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (The last is in lieu of a tree planting, which was discontinued for lack of space.)" Our Initial List of Righteous Jews
Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg) Akiva Orr Alan Brownfeld Alfred Lilienthal Allegra Pacheco Alta Schwartz Amira Hass Ari Packer Avigail Abarbanel Cheryl Rubenberg Dovid Feldman (Rabbi) Eldad Druks Ella Habiba Shohat Elmer Berger (Rabbi) Felicia Langer Gadi Gofbarg Gilad Atzmon Gisèle Halimi Hannah Arendt Henry Herskovitz Howard Zinn Ilan Pappe Irena Klepfisz Israel Shahak Jennifer Lowenstein Jo Tavener Johannes Wahlstrom-Shamir Judah Magnes Jules Rabin Ken Stone Lea Tsemel Lenni Brenner Marc Ellis Martin Buber Meir Gal Michael Rosen Miriam Reik Mordechi Weberman (Rabbi) Moshe Machover Moshe Menuhin Naomi Klein Neta Golan Nina Parris Noam Chomsky Norman Finkelstein Ora Wise Paul Eisen Phyllis Bennis Rabkin Yakov Rachell Marshall Robert Green Roni Ben Efrat Ruchama Marton Sara Roy Sherna Berger Gluck Shimon Tzabar Tanya Reinhart Tzvi Havkin Udi Adiv Uri Davis Yehudi Menuhin Yigal Arens Yisroel Dovid Weiss (Rabbi) http://www.miftah.org |