Author Archives: Barbara Harvey

About Barbara Harvey

Barbara Harvey has long advocated for human rights with such organizations as the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is active with Jewish Voice for Peace.

US professors organization solicits articles with argument for endorsing BDS campaign

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Barbara Harvey

BDS has “picked up steam,” the American Ass’n of University Professors acknowledges. We’ve been against it. But can a case be made to endorse it, it asks in request for articles

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments

Muslims in wealthy Detroit suburb seek a mosque (and friends join them to fight the bigotry)

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Barbara Harvey

Most of the West Bloomfield Planning Commission’s questions were hostile. But a coalition of religious groups stood up for the right of Muslims to have a mosque in a community with many synagogues in it

Posted in Activism, US Politics | 3 Comments

What Americans must do to support the Palestinian commitment to nonviolent resistance

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Barbara Harvey

We’re not trapped. There’s a way out of the terrible conflict in Israel and Palestine

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 15 Comments