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Yehuda HaKohen ((ヘブライ語:יהודה הכהן), born 1979) is an Israeli alternative peace activist and critic of government corruption, globalization and Westernization in the Middle East.〔(New Bill Attempts to Enshrine Western Values )〕 He is a vocal member of the Semitic Action movement for grassroots dialogue〔(Israeli & Palestinian Activists Meet in Hizme )〕 and an outspoken opponent of the two-state solution, Israel's West Bank barrier〔(Radio: Security Wall or Political Tool )〕 and Jewish cooperation with America's Christian right.〔(Activists Oppose Beck's Jerusalem Rally )〕〔(Zionist Freedom Alliance - The Struggle )〕 HaKohen is a proponent of a post-Zionist "Hebrew Universalism" that addresses the challenges facing the Jewish people in the 21st Century and creates the conditions for Middle East peace based on a foundation of "Semitic Unity" rather than non-belligerency.〔(Yehuda HaKohen at Columbia University (part 2) )〕 His approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace is based on the claim that Jews and Palestinians have been experiencing two radically different conflicts with one another and that each side understanding the narrative of the other could actually lead to satisfying the aspirations and grievances of both peoples.〔(A Tale of Two Narratives )〕 ==Early Activism== Yehuda HaKohen immigrated to Israel from New York in 2001 and studied in Jerusalem’s Machon Meir institute. Through involvement with several grassroots organizations, HaKohen was active in initiatives to increase the Jewish presence in the West Bank and resist Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Disengagement policy in 2005.〔(Students Go Beyond Solidarity )〕〔(Radio: Left-Wing Youth Group Welcomes Anti-Disengagement Speakers )〕 During that time, he was part of the Am Segula group that launched a series of non-violent protests and hunger strikes in order to pressure the Israeli government to demand the release of Jonathan Pollard from American imprisonment.〔(Youth To Hunger-Strike For Pollard )〕 Following the violent confrontation at Amona between the Israeli police and teenage activists in early 2006, HaKohen and fellow activist Elie Yossef went on a three-week hunger strike vigil protesting the violence. The activists displayed banners and handed out flyers calling on both the Israeli government and settler leadership to seek ways to avoid future bloodshed. As this took place just before national elections, the hunger strike drew criticism from some settlers who had felt victimized by the government and sought to use the tragedy as a means to hurt the ruling Kadima party in the polls. The government had no official response to the vigil.〔(Radio: New Hunger Strike, Gush Katif Refugee Speaks )〕 In 2006, HaKohen helped found the Zionist Freedom Alliance to promote Jewish national rights on American college campuses and co-hosted a radio program called Jewish Campus Radio on Israel National Radio (channel seven). The program dealt with all issues facing Jewish college students in the West but focused primarily on political activism on American college campuses. In the summer of 2007, INR asked HaKohen to host their new program, The Struggle, which dealt with Jewish history and global issues that concern the State of Israel.〔(Israel National Radio )〕 HaKohen used his radio show to speak out against Islamophobia and to place blame for the Arab-Israeli conflict on third parties, particularly the United States and Europe. In December 2008, HaKohen told Israel National News that: "It was the British who originally turned local Arabs and Jews against one another in order to further their own colonialist agenda for our region. And now Western governments arm both sides and then attempt to impose artificial diplomatic solutions. The Israeli government and PA leaderships today both behave as puppets to foreign regimes and both the local Jewish and Arab populations are suffering. The way to achieve real peace between peoples here is to work from the bottom up and not the top down. The Jewish and Arab peoples are both native to the Middle East. We have a great deal in common. But for efforts at genuine peace to succeed, Western governments and multinational corporations need to leave our region alone and let the indigenous Jews and Arabs settle things between ourselves."〔(Blair Urges Council on Foreign Relations to Pressure Israel )〕 HaKohen frequently used his radio program as a platform to challenge the linear political spectrum and to launch attacks on President George W. Bush, Evangelical Christians and America's military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan〔(Zionist Freedom Alliance - The Struggle )〕 before eventually leaving INR in 2010. In August 2011, HaKohen publicly opposed a Jerusalem rally organized by conservative American broadcaster Glenn Beck and other rightist figures, accusing the organizers of promoting a Christian agenda disrespectful of Jerusalem's indigenous culture. HaKohen also dismissed Beck's support for Israel as having imperialist motives, saying: "Rightwing Americans like Glenn Beck may support the State of Israel, but that support is based on a flawed view of Israel as an American client state in the Middle East. Beck wants to see an Israel that serves as a Western satellite in the region and this directly conflicts with the Zionist goal of a politically independent Jewish state that expresses our authentic Hebrew culture and is capable of making peace with the other indigenous peoples of the Middle East... Zionism is about Jewish liberation and not about creating a 'Robin' to America's 'Batman' in the region."〔(Activists Oppose Beck's Jerusalem Rally )〕 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「Yehuda HaKohen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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