Hillel Schenker () is co-editor of the '' Palestine-Israel Journal'', a

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-based independent English language quarterly founded and run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli academics and journalists.

Career

He was an editor of ''New Outlook'', the Israeli peace monthly founded by Simha Flapan in the spirit of

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'' and the Israeli Hebrew language press. Schenker is a co-founder of the

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and is an International Advisory Board member of the Global Majority Center for Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. He served as Vice Chair (2008-2012) and Chair (2012-2016) of

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- Israel, and is a member of the Policy Working Group, 25 Israeli former diplomats, academics, civil society activists and media people who promote support for a two-state solution in the international arena. Schenker was the editor of "After Lebanon: The Israeli-Palestinian Connection" (

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, 1983), and co-editor with Ziad Abu-Zayyad of "Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism" (Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, 2006). He translated "My War Diary" by

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, Boston, 1984) and "Under the Domim Tree" by

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, NY, 1995) from Hebrew to English.

Awards

In 2012, Schenker was jointly awarded the ''Outstanding Contribution to Peace Award'', alongside his co-editor and founder of the Palestine-Israel Journal

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at the eighth

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held on 5 May. In May 2024, Schenker was jointly awarded the "Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism" alongside Co-Editor Ziad AbuZayyad by the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue" in Vienna.

References

External links

* http://www.pij.org/authors.php?id=240 * Living people Israeli editors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Israel-bio-stub