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Yachad (NGO)
Yachad (, "together") is a non-governmental organization based in the United Kingdom. It describes itself as "pro-Israel, pro-peace". Positions Yachad asserts that "Israel's best hope for safety and security lies in a comprehensive peace with its neighbors. That means a two-state solution: Israel and Palestine." According to Yachad, "time is running out and the two-state solution is in peril". Facing this situation, "Now is the moment for diaspora Jews to play their part and do all they can in the search for peace." Yachad supports the creation of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, with mutually agreed land swaps, supports United Nations recognition of Palestinian statehood, opposes the expansion of West Bank settlements (and supported UN resolutions against this), opposed the 2020 Trump peace plan for Israel/Palestine, and opposes Israeli plans to annex the West Bank. Activities Yachad has a wide-ranging programme of activities through campaigns that claim to aim to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-profit Organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a Profit (accounting), profit for its owners. A nonprofit organization is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. Depending on the local laws, charities are regularly organized as non-profits. A host of organizations may be non-profit, including some political organizations, schools, hospitals, business associations, churches, foundations, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be Tax exemption, tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Arab
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous population, descended from Jews, other Semitic groups, and non-Semitic groups such as the Philistines, had been mostly Christianized. Over succeeding centuries it was Islamicized, and Arabic replaced Aramaic (a Semitic tongue closely related to Hebrew) as the dominant language" * : "Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture." * : "Furthermore, Zionism itself was also defined by its opposition to the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants of the region. Both the 'conquest of land' and the 'conquest of labor' slogans that became central to the dominant strain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionist Federation Of Great Britain And Ireland
The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the British Zionist Federation or simply the Zionist Federation (ZF), is an umbrella organisation for the Zionist movement in the United Kingdom, representing more than 30 organisations and over 50,000 affiliated members. It was established in 1899 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. History The organisation was established in 1899 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Arthur Balfour communicated the Balfour Declaration to the leader of United Kingdom's Jewish community Lord Rothschild for transmission to the Zionist Federation. In 1920, the Zionist Federation founded Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) and Keren Hayesod. The ZF also founded a number of Zionist youth movements. Aims and objectives It describes itself as "the UK's leading Israel advocacy and grassroots organisation" which "celebrates Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Chinn
Sir Trevor Edwin Chinn (born 24 July 1935) is a British businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. He is a Labour Party supporter and donor as well as active in Jewish and pro-Israel causes. Career Chinn was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge, and started his career at Lex Garages (later Lex Service plc) where he followed in his father Rosser's footsteps, ascending to the role of managing director in 1968 at the age of 33 and to chairman and Chief Executive in 1973. In 1968 Lex made £1m in profits, but by the time he retired in 2003 the profits were over £85m. His most notable achievement at Lex was the acquisition of the RAC in 1999 for £425m, which completely changed the nature of the company and led to its change of name in 2001 to RAC plc. In 1989 he initiated the Lex Report on Motoring (now the RAC Report on Motoring), the most authoritative study of motorists' attitudes in Britain. He has become a successful entrepreneur. He is Senio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for ''The Guardian'' and presents the BBC Radio 4 contemporary history series ''The Long View''. He previously wrote for ''The Jewish Chronicle'' until his resignation in September 2024 along with Hadley Freeman, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel and others. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and has written a play, ''Jews. In Their Own Words'', performed in 2022 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Early life The youngest of three children and the only son of a Jewish couple, biographer and journalist Michael Freedland, and Israeli-born Sara Hocherman, he was educated at University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London. As a child, Freedland periodically accompanied his father for broadcasting work. On one occasion, his father was interviewing Eric Morecambe, who comically assumed the 10 year-old Freedland was mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sfard
Michael Sfard (; born 1972) is an Israeli lawyer and political activist specializing in international human rights law and the laws of war. He has served as counsel in various cases on these topics in Israel. Sfard has represented a variety of Israeli and Palestinian human rights and peace organizations, movements and activists at the Israeli Supreme Court. Life and work Michael Sfard was born in 1972 in the Rehov Brazil public housing complex in Kiryat HaYovel, Jerusalem. Sfard is the grandchild of Holocaust survivor Zygmunt Bauman. His parents had been expelled from Poland for their involvement in the University of Warsaw student uprisings against the Communist Government in 1968. When he was five, his family moved to an apartment building in Ma'alot Dafna that was home to many journalists. Sfard completed a law degree ( LLB) at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a reservist for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip while at law school. He served in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla Moran
Layla Michelle Moran ( ; born 12 September 1982) is a British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician. She has served as the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee since September 2024, and has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency), Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017. Moran attended schools in Brussels and Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston before taking her A-level, A-levels at Roedean School near Brighton. She studied physics at Imperial College London and completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, PGCE at Brunel University London. She subsequently worked as a maths and physics teacher. Moran unsuccessfully campaigned as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Battersea (UK Parliament constituency), Battersea at the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election; in the West Central (London Assembly constituency), West Central constituency at the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Schama
Sir Simon Michael Schama ( ; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled ''Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Citizens'', published in 1989. He is also known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series ''A History of Britain (TV series), A History of Britain'' (2000–2002), as well as other documentary series such as ''The American Future: A History'' (2008) and ''The Story of the Jews (TV series), The Story of the Jews'' (2013). Schama was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Early life and education Schama was born on 13 February 1945 in Marylebone, London. His mother, Gertie (née Steinberg), was from an Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Burt
Alistair James Hendrie Burt (born 25 May 1955) is a Conservative British politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Bedfordshire from 2001 until 2019. He was previously MP for his native Bury North in Greater Manchester from 1983 until 1997. Burt was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State then Minister of State at the Department of Social Security from 1992 to 1997, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2010 to 2013. Burt was also Minister of State at the Department of Health from May 2015 to July 2016. First elected as a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative, Burt had the Conservative 2019 suspension of rebel Conservative MPs, whip removed on 3 September 2019. On 29 October he was one of ten Conservative MPs to have the whip restored. He retired at the 2019 general election. In September 2020 he was appointed as Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University, succeeding Lord L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Twigg
Stephen Daniel Twigg (born 25 December 1966) is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association since August 2020. He served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 to 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005, and for Liverpool West Derby from 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 to 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019. He came to national prominence in 1997 by Portillo moment, winning the seat of Secretary of State for Defence, Defence Secretary Michael Portillo. Twigg was made the Minister of State for Department for Children, Schools and Families, School Standards in 2004, a job he held until he lost his seat in 2005. He returned to parliament in 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010, after he was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby when longtime MP Bob Wareing retired. Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Streeting
Wesley Paul William Streeting (; born 21 January 1983) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015. Brought up in Stepney, Streeting attended Westminster City School. He read history at the University of Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Students' Union from 2004 to 2005. He was the president of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 2008 to 2010. He also worked for Progress, a Labour Party-related organisation, for a year before working in the public sector. In 2010, he was elected to the Redbridge London Borough Council for the Labour Party and became Deputy Leader of the council in May 2014. Streeting was elected to parliament as MP for Ilford North in the 2015 general election and resigned as the council's deputy leader before standing down as a councillor in 2018. He was reelected to Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Miller
Gina Nadira Miller (' Singh; born 19 April 1965) is a Guyanese people, Guyanese-British people, British business owner and activist who initiated the 2016 ''R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union'' court case against the Government of the United Kingdom, British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament. In September 2019, she successfully challenged the government's 2019 British prorogation controversy, prorogation of Parliament, formally supported in the legal proceedings by the former prime minister Sir John Major and the shadow attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti. She founded the True and Fair Campaign in 2012, calling for an end to financial misconduct in the investment and pension industries. Miller is a candidate in the 2025 University of Cambridge Chancellor election. Biography Miller was born Gina Nadira Singh in British Guiana to Savitri and Doodnauth Singh, who later b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
