Michel Warschawski
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Michel Warschawski (Mikado) is an Israeli anti-Zionist activist. He led the Marxist Revolutionary Communist League (previously Matzpen-Jerusalem) until its demise in the 1990s, and founded the Israeli Palestinian organization the Alternative information center in 1984.
[edit] Biography
Michel Warschawski was born 1949 in Strasbourg, where his father was the Rabbi. At the age of 16 he moved to Jerusalem, in order to study the Talmud. He later studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1982 he was joint founder of Yesh Gvul. In 1984, he established the Alternative Information Center (AIC), which united Israeli and Palestinian anti-Zionist activists.
In 1987 he was arrested for "providing services for illegal (Palestinian) organizations" and sentenced in 1989 to thirty months prison, for publishing articles written by alleged PFLP members about prison conditions and interrogation techniques.
Warschawski is a writer and journalist, whose articles appear regularly in International Viewpoint, Le Monde diplomatique, ZNet, Monthly Review and other left publications. In the 2006 elections to the Knesset, he was a candidate on the list of Balad ( the National Democratic Assembly)
Warschawski is married to attorney and human rights activist Leah Tsemel, and is father of two sons and a daughter.
[edit] Bibliography
- Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society (New York, 2004) ISBN 978-1583671092
- On the Border (London, 2005) ISBN 978-0745323251
- The 33 Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences (with Gilbert Achcar) (London, 2007) ISBN 978-0863566462
