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*[[The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East]] - Executive Director
 
*[[The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East]] - Executive Director
 
*[[Friends of Israel Educational Foundation]] - Executive Director
 
*[[Friends of Israel Educational Foundation]] - Executive Director
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*[[Zionist Federation]] - Member
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*[[Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel]] - Former Co-ordinator
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*[[Indian/Jewish Association]] - Co-Chair
  
 
==Notes==
 
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[[Category:Israel Lobby]]
 
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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.
 

Latest revision as of 13:29, 23 October 2015

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

Notes

  1. Harriet Sherwood, 'Star authors call for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue rather than boycotts', The Guardian, 22 October 2015, accessed 23 October 2015
  2. Friends of Israel Educational Foundation Website John Levy. Accessed 23 October 2015.
  3. LinkedIn John Levy. Accessed 23 October 2015.