List of Jewish pacifists, peace activists and supporters

  • Noam Chomsky: MIT professor and anti-imperialist activist
  • Albert Einstein: World famous physicist and pacifist.
  • Norman Finkelstein Political scientist and controversial author
  • Amy Goodman: peace activist and anti-imperialist,radio commentator
  • David Grossman: Israeli peace activist and novelist
  • Dr. Joachim Prinz: civil rights activist
  • Paul Wellstone: One of 11 US Senators who voted against both Gulf Wars. He died in a mysterious plane crash several months before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  • Gerald Kaufman British ethnic Jew Member of the Parliament
  • Israeli Refuzniks: Israeli soldiers who have refused to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories because they believe that it is an immoral action on the part of the Israeli government.
  • Maxim Ghilan Maxim Ghilan was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union, the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical Israel and Palestine Political Report
  • Moshe Gershuni: Israeli painter.
  • June Jacobs June Jacobs is a Jewish peace activist and a former President of the International Council of Jewish Women.
  • Abraham Cronbach Abraham Cronbach (February 15, 1882 - April 2, 1965) was a Rabbi, teacher and known pacifist. He served as a rabbi for congregations in Indiana and Ohio. Cronbach was one of the founders of the Peace Heroes Memorial Society.
  • Evelyn Hecht-Galinski
  • Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864 in Vienna, Austria- May 5, 1921 in Vienna), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911.
  • Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. In 1925 he was involved in the creation of the organisation Brit Shalom (Covenant of Peace), which advocated the creation of a binational state, and throughout the rest of his life he hoped and believed that Jews and Arabs one day would live in peace in a joint nation.
  • Mordechai Vanunu ethnic Jew, now Christian
  • Mark Obama Ndesandjo Born and practicing Jew Obama brothers meet in China, Half-Brother of Barack H. Obama 44th President of the United States, noted author, donated 15% of book sales to Chinese orphans Obama's Half Brother Mark Ndesandjo Speaks Up in China

See also

  • Israeli peace camp