Joseph N. Levine

Joe N., Nov. 12, 2003
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Joseph Levine

My kind of Jew.LINK COLUMBUS, Nov. 4 (JTA) - Pro-Palestinian activists from around the country will flock to Ohio State University this weekend for the Third National Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

And the man who helped bring them here is a Jew.

In fact, Joseph Levine, faculty adviser to the Committee for Justice in Palestine, the local group hosting the event, says he grew up steeped in Judaism as a yeshiva student in Los Angeles.Levine nearly immigrated to Israel in the early 1970s.
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But after reading more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Levine says he came to feel that the Israel he had learned about as a child was "mythology."

... Levine says it is precisely his Jewishness that drives him to scrutinize Israel so closely.