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Mark Braverman (born 1948) is an American psychologist who is active on behalf of Palestinian rights and against the Israeli occupation. Although Jewish, he is a leader of Kairos USA, a pro-Palestinian group for American Christians. ==Early life and education== Braverman was born in 1948 to a conservative Jewish family in Philadelphia, United States. He has written that his grandfather was "a fifth-generation Palestinian Jew" who "was born in the Old City of Jerusalem" and was "a direct descendant of the Lubavicher Rebbe." The grandfather emigrated to the U.S. early in the 20th century.〔(Correspondence with Rabbi Isaac Yehuda )〕 Braverman has said that he was brought up a Zionist. “Zionism was mother's milk,” he has written, “together with love for and connection with my family, almost all of whom live in Israel. I was raised as a Conservative Jew – I was a product of Solomon Schechter Day School, President of Philadelphia Region USY and National Vice President, and a camper and then counselor at Camp Ramah.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Jewish Conscience )〕 Braverman has recalled that when he attended Hebrew school in Philadelphia in the 1950s, he and other children “would receive little cardboard folders with slots for dimes distributed by the Jewish National Fund.” They featured “a picture of a tree being planted by handsome, tanned people in shorts.” The children filled the cards with dimes and mailed them in, receiving in return a certificate with a picture of “the tree you had planted in Israel.” He describes this as “fun” and “a thrill – I was reclaiming the homeland. I saw pictures of kibbutzim and orange groves filling the valleys and dreamt of going there someday.”〔 Braverman has described his grandmother as “a sweet woman with a big heart” who has gotten her family through the Great Depression and struggled with “a tyrannical father and an equally tyrannical husband.” She also, according to him, harbored a deep contempt for gentiles and was a member of Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization. For her, he has maintained, “there were no Palestinians and there was no Nakba. There was only this precious reality of Israel, this wondrous repository of Jewish culture, this bulwark against the Nations Who Seek to Destroy Us.” He has said that this grandmother was “a product of her upbringing and of her times,” which “for the Jews of America...were simpler times.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Braverman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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