Ilan Halevi

Ilan Halevi (born Ilan Albert in 12 October 1943 – 10 July 2013) is a Jewish Palestinian journalist and politician, and one of the very few high ranking Jewish members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). A former vice-minister of foreign affairs, he represented the PLO in Europe and in the Socialists International.

• The establishment of the state of Israel, accomplished through the expulsion of several hundred thousand Palestinians and the immigration of several hundred thousand Jews from Africa and Asia, introduced the 'Jewish Question,' hitherto essentially a European question, into the heart of the tragedy of the Arab people of Palestine dispossessed of their space. From this irruption there arose the 'Palestinian Question.'
  • A History of the Jews (1987).

• There is no comparison between the suicidal terrorism of the desperate and the reasoned terrorism of an overarmed state.
  • A History of the Jews (1987).

• The rather unusual case of Ilan Halevi - a kind of a contemporary John Brown - evokes a long and troubling history of excommunication, first religious and later political, which stands in the way of dialogue and reconciliation.
  • Ella Shohat, “A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the "Jews of the Orient and Palestinians" Meeting," Jadaliyya (September 30, 2014). Also collected in On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat (2017)