List of Jewish American activists
This is a list of notable Jewish American activists.
For other notable Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish American politicians and List of Jewish Americans.
Activists
AIDS activists
- Elizabeth Glaser, founder of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- Howard Bragman
- Larry Kramer, co-founder of GMHC
- Mary Fisher
Anarchists
- Alexander Berkman, anarchist leader
- Emma Goldman, anarchist leader
- Murray N. Rothbard, anarchist leader
Animal rights
- Rachel Hirschfeld
- Roberta Kalechofsky, founder of Jews for Animal Rights
- Richard H. Schwartz, President of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America
- Henry Spira
Anti-communism
- Benjamin Gitlow
- Elliott Abrams
- Jay Lovestone, AFL-CIO cold warrior; earlier, chairman of Communist Party USA ousted on orders from Joseph Stalin
- Louis Fischer
- Melvin J. Lasky
- Myron Coureval Fagan
Anti-racist
- Abel Meeropol, composer of anti-lynching song Strange Fruit
- Balfour Brickner
- Jack Greenberg (lawyer), leading member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and co-Founder of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF)
- Joel and Arthur Spingarn, early NAACP leaders
- Kivie Kaplan, head of the NAACP
- Lester Rodney, journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball
- Maurice Davis
- Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, CORE activists, KKK victims
- Stanley Levison, advisor to Martin Luther King
- Tim Wise
- Winona LaDuke, Native American activist and environmentalist (Jewish mother)
Anti-war
- Allard K. Lowenstein, politician and anti-Vietnam war leader
- Allison Krause
- Bernard Lown, co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Prize (1985)
- Daniel Ellsberg, leaked the Pentagon Papers
- Jeffrey Miller, anti-Vietnam war activist.
- John Jacobs, Anti-war activist and member of the Students for a Democratic Society.
- Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink
- Michael Berg, anti-Vietnam war activist.
- Mitchell Goodman, anti-Vietnam war.
- Noam Chomsky, linguist, historian and author
- Naomi Jaffe
- Norman Finkelstein, critique of Israeli violations of human rights of the Palestinians, house demolitions and targeted assassinations of Palestinian militants
Atheists
- Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist[1][2]
Civil liberties
- Bob Basker, civil rights activist.
- Leonard Boudin
- Nancy Feldman
- Sandra Feldman, labor leader who served as president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
- Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice, helped found the American Civil Liberties Union
- Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy
- Ira Glasser - Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001.
- William L. Taylor
Conservatives and neoconservatives
- Andrew Breitbart, publisher
- Arthur J. Finkelstein, Republican Party consultant
- Ben Shapiro, commentator, columnist, author, radio commentator, attorney
- Ben Stein, writer, attorney, economist, commentator, speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, actor
- Bethany Mandel, author, writer, commentator
- Bret Stephens, journalist, editor, commentator
- Dan Senor, political adviser, columnist, writer, author
- Dan Fefferman, church leader, activis
- Daniel Lapin, rabbi, author, public speaker, head of American Alliance of Jews and Christians, founder of Toward Tradition
- Daniel Pipes, historian, writer, commentator, president of Middle East Forum, publisher of Middle East Quarterly
- David Bernstein, professor, columnist
- David Horowitz, writer, activist
- Dennis Prager, columnist, author, radio commentator, public speaker
- Elliott Abrams, deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, diplomat, attorney, political scientist
- Eliot A. Cohen, political scientist
- Fred Zeidman, chairman of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
- George Friedman, geopolitical forecaster, strategist, founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures
- Irving Kristol, founder of American Neoconservatism
- Jamie Weinstein, journalist, commentator, editor, satirist
- Jay Sekulow, attorney, Chief Counsel of American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), radio and television commentator
- Michael Savage aka Michael Alan Weiner, radio talk show host, author, conservative commentator
- Jeff Ballabon, media executive, lobbyist, political advisor, consultant
- Jeff Jacoby, journalist, columnist
- Jennifer Rubin, journalist, attorney
- John Podhoretz, writer and commentator
- Joshua Muravchik, professor, author
- Mark Levin, radio commentator and writer
- Matt Drudge, commentator, founder and editor of Drudge Report, author, radio and television commentator
- Max Boot, foreign policy adviser, author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, historian, Council on Foreign Relations fellow
- Michael Savage, radio commentator, author, activist, nutritionist
- Midge Decter, writer
- Nick Muzin political advisor, strategist, attorney, physician
- Noam Neusner, speechwriter for President George W. Bush
- Norman Podhoretz, writer
- Orin Kerr, professor, columnist
- Pamela Geller - activist, author, commentator[3]
- Paul Singer, hedge fund manager, activist investor, philanthropist
- Robert Kagan, historian, foreign-policy advisor, Brookings Institution fellow
- Sheldon Adelson, business magnate, investor, philanthropist
- Sid Dinerstein, Republican Party chairman
- Tevi Troy, deputy health secretary under President George W. Bush, businessman, author
- Will Herberg, writer, activist, social philosopher, sociologist, Jewish theologian
- William Kristol, editor, writer, founder of The Weekly Standard and Emergency Committee for Israel
Counterculture
- Abbie Hoffman, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies)
- A.J. Weberman, Yippie activist, author
- Allen Ginsberg, poet
- Ed Rosenthal, cannabis activist
- Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippie movement
Disability
- Jay Ruderman, activist and philanthropist
Education
- Naftuli Moster, founder of YAFFED
Electronic rights activists
- Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Demand Progress
- Bruce Perens, open source advocate, co-founder of Software in the Public Interest
- Jonathan Tasini, National Writers Union leader, fighter for electronic rights for authors
- Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation
Environmental activists
Feminism and gay rights
- Andrea Dworkin, feminist writer, deceased
- Bella Abzug, feminist politician, deceased
- Bettina Aptheker (1944–), lesbian activist, author, and educator[4]
- Betty Friedan, co-founder and first president of NOW, deceased
- Clara Fraser, founder of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party[5]
- Erica Jong, author and columnist
- Ernestine Rose, feminist
- Evan Wolfson, gay marriage activist
- Franklin E. Kameny, gay rights leader[6]
- Gloria Allred (1941–), lawyer and radio talk show host[7]
- Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine (Jewish father)
- Harvey Milk, murdered gay rights activist and openly gay politician
- Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist and author
- Naomi Wolf, feminist writer
- Rebecca Walker (1969–), feminist writer[8]
- Robin Morgan, editor of Ms. Magazine
- Sally Kohn, LGBT advocate.
- Sara Ehrman, feminist.
- Susan Faludi, feminist writer
- Susan Stern, feminist
Gun rights advocacy
- Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), second female president and first Jewish president[9]
Health advocacy
- Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, health food and fitness advocate
- Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer and anti-tobacco activist; son of Carl Reiner[10]
Immigration reform
- Cecilia Razovsky, activist for immigrants.
- David Miliband, President, International Rescue Committee
- Kinky Friedman, country singer, 2006 candidate for Governor of Texas
- Mark Hetfield, President and CEO, HIAS
Jewish Defense
- Avi Weiss, Orthodox rabbi, leader of Free Soviet Jewry movement
- Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, deceased
- Mordechai Levy, founder and chairman of the Jewish Defense Organization
Land reform
Leaders of Jewish communal organizations
- Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
- William Daroff
Liberal and left-wing activists
- Al Lewis, actor, Green Party candidate, anti-prison and anti-drug war activist
- Barbra Streisand, entertainer, liberal activist and fundraiser
- Ben Cohen, founder of TrueMajority
- Caroline Decker, labor activist.
- Eli Pariser, campaigns director of MoveOn.org
- George Soros, founder of Open Society Institute
- Howard Zinn, author
- Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR
- Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine
- Melech Epstein
- Saul Alinsky, community organizer
- William Kunstler, civil rights lawyer
Libertarian activists
Nazi hunters and Holocaust educators
- Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations since 1995; Nazi hunter since the early 1980s
- Marvin Hier, Orthodox rabbi, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Palestinian rights
- Adam Shapiro
- Anna Baltzer
- Elmer Berger, founder of American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism
- Max Blumenthal, author, journalist, and blogger
- Norman Finkelstein, former professor (denied most recent tenure at DePaul University)
Pro-life
- Nat Hentoff, author and columnist
Radical left
- Bernardine Dohrn, leader of Days of Rage
- David Gilbert
- Laura Whitehorn
- Leslie Cagan, founder of United for Peace and Justice
- Mark Rudd, Students for a Democratic Society leader during 1968 Columbia University strike
- Terry Robbins
Rights of Ethiopian Jews
Socialists and communists (historical)
- Abraham Cahan
- Bernie Sanders, democratic socialist leader and politician.
- Charles Ruthenberg, early leader of the Communist Party USA
- Daniel De Leon, revolutionary socialist leader
- Max Shachtman, democratic socialist leader and theorist
- Theresa Malkiel (1874-1949), leader in the Socialist Party of America
Trade union leaders
- David Dubinsky, labor leader
- Fred Newman, founder of International Workers Party
- Rose Finkelstein Norwood, labor leader
- Samuel Gompers, labor leader
- Sidney Hillman, labor leader
Zionists
- Baruch Zuckerman (1887–1970)
- Bernard Flexner, a founder of the Council on Foreign Relations
- David Brog, Executive Director of Christians United For Israel
- David Werner Amram (1866–1939), director of Federation of American Zionists
- Jacques Torczyner (1914–2013)
- Samuel S. Bloom (1860–1941)
- Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949)
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Look who's talking The Observer, 14 April 2002
- ↑ Hitch-22, page 352.
- ↑ Elgot, Jessica (June 20, 2013). "Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer To Speak At EDL Rally In Woolwich, Campaigners Call For UK Entry Ban". The Huffington Post. London.
- ↑ "other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker"
- ↑ "Clara Fraser, 1923-1998: American rebel and architect of socialist feminism". Archived from the original on 2004-03-09.
- ↑ Johnson, David K. (2002). "Franklin E. Kameny (1925-)". In Bullough, Vern L. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. New York: The Haworth Press. pp. 209–218. ISBN 978-1-56023-193-6.
- ↑ Waxman, Sharon; Richard Siklos (2006-12-19). "New Dispute Over Firing of Publisher". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ↑ Ross, Ross (2007-04-08). "Rebecca Walker bringing message to Expo". Pensacola News Journal. Archived from the original on 2007-07-05. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
- ↑ Weinstein Bilson, Mara. "The President of the National Rifle Association is Jewish?". Moment Magazine. Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-04.
- ↑ R. Reiner — "Reiner, however, said Gibson also must do some "major soul-searching." "It’s not a matter of just apologizing for some words you’ve said," said Reiner, who is Jewish. "It’s to really understand why it is you’re anti-Semitic and where those feelings came from.""
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