Gershon baskin biography

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Carolyn Arguillas. Steve Youngblood. Annabel McGoldrick. Jake Lynch. Jane Goodall, DBE. Steven M. Marina Abramovic. Gershon Baskin Dr. Gershon Baskin is best known for facilitating the release of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. He is a leading Israeli scholar and peace activist. Info Endorsements Contact Speaker. With the exception of Gaza, which has been off-limits to Israelis since June , I visit cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps throughout Palestine on a regular basis.

Yes, I break the law in doing so. I am not afraid. I go and I listen and I talk, challenge, learn, and teach. I hear the same things from both sides: we want peace, but we have no partner on the other side.

Gershon baskin biography

Sign up. Enable All Save Settings. Baskin continued to negotiate in coordination with the Israeli officials coordinating Israel's efforts Lior Lotan and Yoron Blum. Baskin has been in contact with authorities in Qatar, Egyptian Intelligence, and the Israeli government and intelligence community authorities. Baskin's main interlocutor in Hamas, Ghazi Hamad , left Gaza for Beirut several months before the war and has become Hamas' primary spokesperson for the war.

While unofficial negotiations continued between Baskin and Hamad during the first three weeks of the war, following Hamad's justification of the brutal acts of terrorism that were done in Israeli civilian communities and the promise that there would be more until Israel was annihilated, Baskin cut off contact with Hamad and published widely a private letter he had sent to Hamad voicing his disgust with the terrorism-justifying Hamas leader.

He remains a member of the editorial committee of the Palestine—Israel Journal. Today [ when? Baskin also writes [ when? In July , Baskin began teaching a summer course for international students and diplomats on "Coexistence in the Middle East" at the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the summer , the course was canceled due to the Corona pandemic.

As part of their ICO activity, in August , Baskin joined James Holmes in establishing the Holy Land Bond , [ 6 ] a new investment fund registered in the UK, aimed at investing in housing projects for Palestinians in East Jerusalem, integrated housing projects for Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in Israel's " mixed cities ", and employment and industrial zones that are either cross-boundary Israeli-Palestinian, or for Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Baskin was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post between — Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Israeli columnist and political activist. This article has multiple issues.