Ilan Halevi

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Ilan Halevi (Hebrew: אִילָן הַלֵּוִי; born in 1943, France) is a Jewish Palestinian journalist and politician, and one of the very few high ranking Jewish members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).

Halevi is the PLO's representative in Europe and to the Socialist International, former PLO vice minister of Foreign Affairs, and participated in that capacity in the Madrid Conference of 1991.

According to Hanan Ashrawi (in "This Side of Peace,") in the early 1970s Halevi was a member of Maavak (Struggle), a "small, radical Israeli anti-Zionist group". In the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and subsequent shift of Palestinian activism into the "Occupied Territories", he switched his activity to groups which included Israelis and Palestinians working together against the occupation, and helped secure permission for Bashir al-Barghuti, a Palestinian activist and member of the Jordanian Communist Party's governing council, to return to the West Bank.

Still a critic of Zionism (defining Israel as a Jewish state), Halevi has written several books on the subject and is a founding member of the Revue des Etudes Palestiniennes (Palestinian Studies Review) in 1981. Halevi currently lives in Paris and the West Bank.

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Allers-retours (in French, 2005) by Ilan Halevi, a fictional semi-autobiography critical of Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians
Face à la guerre. Lettre de Ramallah (in French, 2003) by Ilan Halevi
A History of the Jews : Ancient and Modern (in French, 1981) published in English translation in 1987, by Ilan Halevi
Armed Struggle and the Search for State : The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993, by Yezid Sayigh