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- Will
Paul Larudee, Ph.D.
Human Rights Activist for Peace and Justice in Palestine (Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem)
Dr. Paul Larudee is a San Francisco Bay Area activist on the issue of justice in the region known as Palestine, which includes Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. He was born to an Iranian Presbyterian minister and his American missionary spouse in 1946 and grew up in the American Midwest. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and spent 14 years in Arab countries as a contracted U.S. government advisor, Fulbright-Hays exchange lecturer, teacher, training administrator and graduate student.
Paul has visited the Palestinian region ten times since 1965, including four times with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement that applies nonviolent principles to resist the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Paul was among seven ISM volunteers wounded by Israeli gunfire in April, 2002 in an otherwise nonviolent attempt to help Palestinian families. In 2006, he was held in Israeli detention for two weeks while appealing a decision to deny him entry, then expelled from the country. He was in Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli invasion. He is one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement, which seeks to break the siege of Gaza through seaborne nonviolent action. His publications can be found by searching on his name and at his weblog, www.hurriyya.blogspot.com.
Paul is a compelling storyteller of personal experiences and speaks of justice and equitable solutions for all persons who consider their home to be in Palestine, without discrimination on the basis of race, religion or ethnicity.
He offers new perspectives and provides insight into the way the parties themselves view the conflict. He challenges established viewpoints and misunderstandings, and offers innovative ideas for making progress toward resolution.