Patrons and Members of the Support Committee
The Support Committee is under the patronage of:
Ken Coates Chairman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, UK
Nurit Peled Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2001, Israel
Leila Shahid General Delegate of Palestine to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg, Palestine
Members of The Support Committee:
Andreas Van Agt Former Prime Minister, Netherlands
Gilbert Achcar Professor, UK
Tariq Ali Writer, UK
Henri Alleg Journalist, France
Martin Almada Lawyer, Writer, Right Livelihood Award 2002, Paraguay
Alaa Al Aswany Writer, Egypt
Raymond Aubrac – and Lucie Aubrac – Former Members of the French Resistance, France
Agnès B Fashion Designer, France
Boutros Boutros-Ghali Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Egypt
Nguyên Thi Bình Former Vice-President, Vietnam
Ahmed Ben Bella First President, Algeria
Saleh Bakri Actor, Palestine
Etienne Balibar Professor Emeritus, France
Anna Balletbò President of Fundació Internacional Olof Palme, Spain
Russell Banks Writer, USA
Mohammed Bedjaoui Former President of the International Court of Justice (The Hague), Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria
Tony Benn Peace activist, UK
Amar Bentoumi President Emeritus of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Algeria
John Berger Writer, UK
Karl Blecha Former Minister of Interior of Austria, Austria
Juan Diego Botto Actor, Argentina
Howard Brenton Writer, UK
Breyten Breytenbach Author, France-South Africa
Carmel Budiardjo Right Livelihood Award 1995, UK
Judith Butler Professor, USA
Eric Cantona Actor and Film producer, France
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua
Franco Cavalli Former President of International Union Against Cancer, Switzerland
Monique Chemillier-Gendreau Professor Emeritus, France
Noam Chomsky Professor MIT, USA
Vicenzo Consolo Writer, Italy
Julie Christie Actress, UK
Jonathan Cook Writer, Journalist, UK
Georges Corm Writer, Former Minister of Finance, Lebanon
Mairead Corrigan Maguire Nobel Peace Prize 1976, Northern Ireland
Raymond Deane Composer and author, Ireland
John Dugard Former Special Rapporteur of UN on Palestine, South Africa
Geraud de Geouffre de la Pradelle Professor Emeritus, France
Andy de la Tour Actor/Screenwriter, UK
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writer, USA
Salim El Hoss former Prime Minister, Lebanon
Miguel Angel Estrella Pianist, Former Ambassador to UNESCO, Argentina
Irene Fernandez Right Livelihood Award 2005, Malaysia
Norman Finkelstein Writer, USA
Cees Flinterman Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Netherlands
Eduardo Galeano Writer, Uruguay
Johan Galtung Founder and co-director of Transcend, Right Livelihood Award 1987, Norway
Costa Gavras Film director, France
Susan George Writer, France
Neve Gordon Political Scientist, Israel
Juan Goytisolo Writer, Spain
Trevor Griffiths Writer, UK
Juan Guzman Tapia Judge, Chile
Gisele Halimi Lawyer, Former Ambassador to UNESCO, France
Denis Halliday Former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Ireland
Jeff Halper Coordinator of ICAHD, Israel
Mohammed Harbi Historian, Algeria
Eric Hazan Writer, France
Stephane Hessel French Ambassador, France
François Houtart Professor Emeritus, Belgium
Chris Hedges Journalist, Author and War Correspondent, USA
Nouri Abdel Razzaql Hussein Secretary General of Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation, Egypt
Sonallah Ibrahim Elorfally writer, Egypt
Albert Jacquard Professor, France
Hina Jilani Lawyer and human rights activist, Pakistan
Alain Joxe Director of Studies at the EHESS, France
Hatim Kanaaneh Author, Palestine
Milan Ku-can Former President, Slovenia
Ghada Karmi Professor and author, Palestine
Ronald Kasrils writer and activist, South Africa
Assaf Kfoury Professor, USA
Naomi Klein Writer, USA
Ken Livingstone Politician and former Mayor of London, UK
Erwin Lanc Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Austria
Felicia Langer Lawyer, Writer, Right Livelihood Award 1990, Germany
Paul Laverty Screenwriter, UK
Mike Leigh Filmmaker, UK
Ken Loach Filmmaker, UK
Donal Lunny Folk and Traditional Musician, Ireland
Alice Mahon Former Member of Parliament, UK
Miriam Margolyes Actress, UK
José Antonio Martín Pallín Emeritus Juge, Chamber II, Supreme Court, Spain
Nur Masalha Director of the centre for Religion and History, Palestine
François Maspero Writer, France
Gustave Massiah Chairman of CRID, France
Avi Mograbi Filmmaker, Israel
Luisa Morgantini Activist, Italy
Peter Mullan Filmmaker and actor, UK
Karma Nabulsi Academic and author, Palestine
Radhia Nasraoui Human Rights Lawyer, Tunisia
Susie Orbach Professor, UK
Willibald Pahr Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Austria
Ilan Pappe Professor, Israel
Simone Paris de Bollardière Movement for Non-violence Alternative, France
Norman Paech Former German MP, Germany
Tamar Pelleg-Sryck Human Rights Lawyer, Israel
Adolfo Péres Esquivel Nobel Peace Prize 1980, Argentina
Arthur Pestana “Pepetela” Writer, Angola
Jeremy Pikser Writer, USA
John Pilger Journalist, author, film maker, Australia
Harold Pinter (†) Writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005, UK
Majid Rahnema writer, former member of Unesco’s executive board, Iran
François Rigaux Professor Emeritus, Belgium
Jacqueline Rose Professor, UK
Eric Rouleau Writer, Former Ambassador, France
François Roux Lawyer, France
Jean Salmon Professor Emeritus, ULB, Belgium
Elias Sanbar Writer, Palestine
José Saramago Nobel Prize Literature 1998, Portugal
Aharon Shabtai, Poet, Israel
Jitendra Sharma Lawyer, President of International Association of Democratic Lawyers, India
Cindy Sheehan Peace activist and author, USA
Juliet Stevenson Actress, UK
Raji Surani Vice-President Of the FIDHs, Palestine
Vandana Shiva Right Livelihood Award 1993, India
Sulak Sivaraksa Professor, Right Livelihood Award 1995, Thailand
Ahdaf Soueif Writer, UK
Philippe Texier Magistrate and Member of the UN Human Rights Committee, France
Rt Hon Sir Edmund Thomas KNZM, Retired, New Zealand
Gerard Toulouse Physicist, France
Sir Brian Urquhart Former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations, UK
Puthan Veetil Rajagopal President of Ekta parishad, India
Heikelina Verrijn Stuart Lawyer and Philosopher of Law, Holland
Itala Vivan Professor, Italy
Peter Mullan Playwright/Screenwriter, USA
Michel Warschawski Activist, Israel
Alice Walker Author and Poet, USA
Francisco Whitaker Right Livelihood Award 2006, Brazil
Betty Williams Nobel Peace Prize 1976, Northern Ireland
Jody Williams Nobel Peace Prize 1997, USA
Jean Ziegler sociologist, Switzerland
