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Ben Linder

Ben Linder

Benjamin Linder is devoted to human rights work focused on Israelis and Palestinians. He serves on the board of J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy organization. He also works with Combatants for Peace and South Hebron Hills Watch.

Israel Defense Forces personnel stand guard as a bulldozer demolishes a building in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank on June 26, 2024. (Eid Suleiman)
Posted inLocal Voice

I am an Israeli American Jew. Bulldozing Palestinian homes is personal for me

Ben Linder by Ben Linder July 10, 2024July 10, 2024

As the brutal war in Gaza continues, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, is waging a messianic campaign to make annexation of large portions of the West Bank inevitable through […]

Offir Gutelzon (in the pink bandana) helps organize the crowd at an anti-Benjamin Netanyahu protest at Crissy Field in San Francisco, Aug. 29, 2020. (Photo/Miri Ekshtein Prager)
Posted inLocal Voice

‘No Freedom, No Hi-Tech’: This right-wing Knesset puts Israel’s tech sector in peril

Offir GutelzonBen Linder by Offir Gutelzon and Ben Linder January 30, 2023February 1, 2023

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