Summary
A founder member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians (February 2002) and, at the time his lecture was prepared for publication, web editor of Jewish Voice for Labour, who gave the second Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture in November 2006 (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.15-16, p.43-60).
Details
- Kuper grew up in apartheid South Africa in the 1950s, where Zionism promised an alternative life for young idealistic Jews who found apartheid unbearable; he came to England and became a committed socialist, and describes his commitment to the Palestinian cause as having elements of atonement for the double standards he long operated with regard to Israel (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.44-45).
- His chapter “Human Rights in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” argues that singling out Israel is justified for six stated reasons and that Israel is in daily breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention in the occupied territories, some breaches probably amounting to war crimes (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.43-60).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Fourth Geneva Convention, Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group