John Levy
John Levy is a Committee Member of Culture for Coexistence, an organisation that opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. [1] Levy is also the Executive Director of The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East, and the Friends of Israel Educational Foundation.[2]
His page on LinkedIn describes his activities as involving being an 'Organisor [sic] of lecture programmes around the UK for 6th Form and adult audiences/Active lecturer in these talks/Initiator of wide variety of academic link-ups between the UK and Israel...'[3]
Affiliations
- Culture for Coexistence - Committee Member
- The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East - Executive Director
- Friends of Israel Educational Foundation - Executive Director
Notes
ucated in London, a Sociology graduate of Bedford College, John spent nearly a year as a social worker in South London, before joining the Zionist Federation, in 1970. John is the Executive Director of The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East, and the Friends of Israel Educational Foundation. Both are entirely administered and funded by British well-wishers Friends of Israel Educational Foundation was established in 1976; the Academic Study Group in 1978. These educational Trusts seek to promote an informed and analytic understanding of Israel and the Middle East; and forge closer collaborative ties between academics and other experts in the UK and their professional counterparts in Israel. Until April 2013 John was co-ordinator of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. He remains a Trustee of the charity. John is the Jewish co-Chair of the Indian / Jewish Association.
