This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate diplomatic, non-military resolution of political disputes, usually through nonviolent means.

A peace activist is an activist of the peace movement.

Jane Addams

Martti Ahtisaari

Vittorio Arrigoni

Joan Baez

Ernesto Balducci

Daniel Berrigan

Frida Berrigan

Philip Berrigan

Vera Brittain

Elihu Burritt

Noam Chomsky

Rachel Corrie

David Cortright

Frances Crowe

Godfried Danneels

Dorothy Day

Élie Ducommun

Mel Duncan

Shirin Ebadi

Albert Einstein

Daniel Ellsberg

Tom Fox

Comfort Freeman

Mahatma Gandhi

William Lloyd Garrison

Arthur Gish

G. Simon Harak

Keir Hardie

George Harrison

Sidney Hinkes

Emily Hobhouse

Abbie Hoffman

Aldous Huxley

Khawaja Zafar Iqbal

Michael Jackson

Kathy Kelly

Robert F. Kennedy

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Martin Luther King Jr.

George Lansbury

John Lennon

Julian Lennon

Charles Lindbergh

Staughton Lynd

Paul McCartney

David McTaggart

Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Bob Marley

Rigoberta Menchú

Thomas Merton

Barry Mitcalfe

Macy Morse

A.J. Muste

Abie Nathan

Huey Newton

Alfred Nobel

Linus Pauling

Geshe Thubten Phelgye

Lindis Percy

Jeannette Rankin

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Henry Richard

Oscar Romero

Jerry Rubin

Sophie Scholl

Colin Scott

Bobby Seale

Martin Sheen

Dick Sheppard

Toma Sik

Jeanmarie Simpson

Samantha Smith

C. Maxwell Stanley

Richard Starkey

Olaf Stapledon

Cat Stevens

Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama)

Eve Tetaz

Thich Nhat Hanh

Leo Tolstoy

Jo Vallentine

Mordechai Vanunu

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Kurt Vonnegut

Jody Williams

Brian Willson

John Howard Yoder

Yoko Ono

Neil Young

Howard Zinn

See also

Anti-war

Direct action

Pacifism

Peace

Peace churches

Resistance movement

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Uri Avnery (, also transliterated Uri Avneri, born 10 September 1923) is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.

A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and 1979–81. He was also the owner of ''HaOlam HaZeh'', an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993.

He is famous for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including ''1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem'' (2008); ''Israel’s Vicious Circle'' (2008); and ''My Friend, the Enemy'' (1986).

Biography

Avnery was born in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann, to a well-established German Jewish family. Avnery and his family emigrated to Palestine in 1933, following Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He attended school in Nahalal and then in Tel Aviv, leaving after 7th grade, at age 14, in order to help his parents. He started work as a clerk for a lawyer, a job he held for about five years.

He joined the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group, in 1938 and wrote for some of their internal publications. At one point he edited the internal Revisionist journal ''Ba-Ma'avak'' ("in the Struggle"). He started writing for independent publications at the age of 17.

He left the Irgun in 1942 after becoming disenchanted with their tactics, stating in a 2003 interview that, "I didn't like the methods of terror applied by the Irgun at the time", noting he did not back killing people in retaliation for similar acts by the Arabs. In 1947 Avnery started his own small group, Eretz Yisrael Hatze'ira ("Young Land of Israel"), which published the journal ''Ma'avak'' ("Struggle"). Avnery's early political thought was influenced by Canaanism; in 1947 he proposed a union of the countries in the "Semitic region": Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Avnery fought on the southern front in the Givati Brigade as a squad commander, and later in the Samson's Foxes commando unit (and also wrote its anthem). He wrote dispatches from the front line which were published in ''Haaretz'' and later as a book, ''In the Fields of Philistia'' (, ''Bi-Sdot Pleshet''). Avnery was wounded twice, the second time, toward the end of the war, seriously; he spent the last months of his army service convalescing and was discharged in the summer of 1949.

After briefly working at ''Haaretz'', in 1950, Avnery (with Shalom Cohen and two others) bought the failing magazine ''HaOlam HaZeh'' ("This World"). Avnery edited the weekly magazine during the 1950s and the 1960s Avnery, turning it into an anti-establishment tabloid known for many sensational scoops and for featuring nudes on its back cover. The formula seemed to work, as for many years it was Israel's leading alternative-media publication.

After the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Avnery used his editorials in ''HaOlam HaZeh'' to call for a preventive war against Egypt, arguing that "the reactionary Arab regimes" would attack Israel "the minute Arab superiority in weapons over Israel is great enough." He began to revise his views after the 1956 Suez Crisis, which ended in Israeli withdrawal and strengthened Nasser. In June 1957 Avnery suggested that Israel aid Palestinians in overthrowing the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan (a "product of imperialism"); Israel would then form a federation with the new Palestinian Jordanian state. In the late 1950s Avnery was among the founders of the group Semitic Action, which argued for a regional federation of Israel and its neighbors.

In 1965 Avnery created a political party bearing the name of his and Cohen's magazine, HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash, and was elected to the Knesset in the 1965 election. Although he retained his seat in the 1969 election, the party disintegrated and Avnery renamed it Meri. Although it failed to win any seats in the 1973 elections, Avnery returned to the Knesset as a member of the Left Camp of Israel after the 1977 election, but did not retain his seat in the 1981 election. He was later involved in the Progressive List for Peace.

In late 1975 Avnery was among the founders of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Shortly after the group's founding, Avnery was assaulted and stabbed several times.

Avnery famously crossed the front lines and met Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, during the Siege of Beirut — said to have been the first time an Israeli met personally with Arafat.

His visit with Arafat was among the reasons he became estranged from his mother, Hilda Ostermann, who disinherited him. In her will, Hilda wrote "I do not leave a penny to my son Uri, who instead of taking care of me went off to visit that murderer Yasser Arafat".

He later turned to left-wing peace activism and founded the Gush Shalom movement in 1993, which he continues to lead as of 2009. He is a secularist and strongly opposed to the Orthodox influence in religious and political life.

In 2001, Avnery and his wife Rachel Avnery were honoured with the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the "Alternative Nobel Prize", "… for their unwavering conviction, in the midst of violence, that peace can only be achieved through justice and reconciliation". In 2006, settler activist Baruch Marzel called on the Israeli military to carry out "a targeted killing" against Avnery.

In 2005, he was voted the 128th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website ''Ynet'' to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

Avnery is a contributor to the news and opinion sites ''CounterPunch'', ''Information Clearing House'', ''Scoop.co.nz ''LewRockwell.com'' and ''The Exception Magazine''.

Works

Avnery, Uri (1968): ''Israel Without Zionists: A Plea for Peace in the Middle East,'' MacMillan Co., New York, Hardbound (1st Edition in 1968; many reprints)

Avnery, Uri (1986): ''My Friend, the Enemy'', Zed Books; Paperback. 1986 ISBN 0-86232-215-4 Paperback; Lawrence Hill & Co, 1987 ISBN 0-88208-213-2 Hard cover; Lawrence Hill Books (1987) ISBN 0-88208-212-4

Avnery, Uri (2008): ''1948: A Soldier's Tale – The Bloody Road to Jerusalem'', Oneworld Publications; Paperback. 2008 ISBN 978-1-85168-629-2 (English edition of two books originally published in Hebrew in 1949 and '50)

See also

Uri Davis

Mordechai Vanunu

Adam Keller

References

External links

Uri Avnery Biography

Uri Avnery's News Pages

Uri Avnery's biography Knesset website

Gush Shalom

Right Livelihood Award recipient 2001

Uri Avnery – An End Foreseen – 2008

Obama's trilateral meeting will fail – interview with Radio France Internationale in English, September 2009

Interview with Uri Avnery Video Journalism Movement

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Brian William Haw (7 January 1949 – 18 June 2011) was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a camp in London's Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. He began his protest before the 2001 United States attacks, and became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards he was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure.

Early life

Haw was born in Woodford Green, Redbridge, a twin and the eldest of five. He grew up in neighbouring Barking and in Whitstable, Kent. His father, who had been one of the first British soldiers to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, worked in a betting office. He committed suicide by gassing himself when Haw was 13. Haw was apprenticed to a boat-builder from the age of 16 and then entered the Merchant Navy as a deckhand.

Personal life

As an evangelical Christian, Haw visited Northern Ireland during The Troubles as well as the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Haw worked with troubled youngsters in Redditch, Worcestershire, where he lived with his wife Kay and their seven children until he left them in 2001 to begin his Parliament Square protest. The couple divorced in 2003.

Parliament Square protests

On 2 June 2001, he began camping in Parliament Square in central London in a one-man political protest against war and foreign policy (initially, the sanctions against Iraq). By his own account, he was first inspired to take up his vigil after seeing the images and information produced by the Mariam Appeal, an anti-sanctions campaign. Haw justified his campaign on a need to improve his children's future. He only left his makeshift campsite in order to attend court hearings, surviving on food brought by supporters. Support for Haw's protest came from former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn and activist/comedian Mark Thomas. Among the artwork displayed was a Banksy stencil of two soldiers painting over a peace sign and Leon Kuhn's anti-war political caricature ''3 Guilty Men'', which, together with Kuhn's ''The Proud Parents'', Mark Wallinger later displayed in his recreation at the Tate in 2007.

In October 2002 Westminster City Council attempted to prosecute Haw for causing an obstruction to the pavement, but the case failed as Haw's banners did not impede movement. The continuous use of a megaphone by Haw led to objections by Members of Parliament who had offices close to Haw's protest camp. The House of Commons Procedure Committee held a brief inquiry in summer 2003 which heard evidence that permanent protests in Parliament Square could provide an opportunity for terrorists to disguise explosive devices, and resulted in a recommendation that the law be changed to prohibit them. The Government passed a provision banning all unlicensed protests, permanent or otherwise, in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (sections 132 to 138); however, because Mr Haw's protest was on-going and residing on Parliament Square prior to the enactment of the Act, it was unclear whether the Act applied to him (see Legal Action, below).

In the 2005 general election Haw stood as a candidate in the Cities of London and Westminster in order to further his campaign and oppose the Act which was yet to come in to force. He won 298 votes (0.8 percent), making a speech against the ongoing presence of UK troops in Iraq at the declaration of the result.

Legal action

As preparation for implementing the new Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 began, Haw won an application for judicial review on 28 July 2005, successfully arguing that a technical defect in the act meant it did not apply in his case. The act states that demonstrations must have authorisation from the police "when the demonstration starts", and Haw asserted that his demonstration had begun before the passage of the act, which was not made retroactive. Although the commencement order made to bring the act into force had made reference to demonstrations begun before the act came into force, there was no power for the commencement order to extend the scope of the act.

The government appealed against the judgement, and on 8 May 2006 the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and therefore declared that the act did apply to him. The court found that the intent of parliament was clearly to apply to all demonstrations in Parliament Square regardless of when they had begun:

In the meantime Haw had applied for permission to continue his demonstration, and received it on condition that his display of placards is no more than 3 m wide (among other things). Haw was unwilling to comply and the police referred his case to the Crown Prosecution Service; a number of supporters began camping with him in order to deter attempts to evict him.

In the early hours of 23 May 2006, 78 police arrived and removed all but one of Haw's placards citing continual breached conditions of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 as their reason for doing so. Ian Blair (head of the Met. police at the time) later admitted that the operation to remove Haw's placards had cost £27,000 The actions of the police were criticised by members of the Metropolitan Police Authority at its monthly meeting on 25 May 2006. Haw appeared at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on 30 May, when he refused to enter a plea. The court entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, and he was bailed to return to court on 11 July 2006. At a licensing hearing at Westminster City Council on 30 June 2006, Haw was granted limited permission to use a loudspeaker in the space allowed to him.

On 22 January 2007 Haw was acquitted on the grounds that the conditions he was accused of breaching were not sufficiently clear, and that they should have been imposed by a police officer of higher rank. District Judge Purdy ruled: "I find the conditions, drafted as they are, lack clarity and are not workable in their current form."

Documentary

Brian Haw was featured in several documentaries including 2003's "As Long As It Takes" (Raj Yagnik) and the 2006 documentary, ''TerrorStorm''. Director and narrator Alex Jones interviewed Haw and even joined in his protest of Parliament by answering Haw's inquiry, via megaphone, about the Statue of Liberty by saying she had been picked up on suspicion that she was a member of Al-Qaeda. Haw (played by an actor) also appeared briefly in the 2007 drama ''The Trial of Tony Blair''. There is also a documentary film made about him by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh, ''A Man Called Brian'', which shows interviews with him and analysed the Iraq war. This film has participated in some international film festivals.

Director of Public Prosecutions v Haw

In the case of Director of Public Prosecutions v Haw, the judgement of the court, delivered by Lord Phillips CJ, included the following: :3. The issues raised by the case stated are as follows: ::i) Whether the statutory powers available to the Commissioner of Police under Section 134 of SOCA can be exercised by a subordinate on his behalf; ::ii) Whether the conditions imposed on Mr Haw were ultra vires, or incompatible with Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights ('ECHR'), as unreasonable or insufficiently clear.

This was an adjourned hearing of an appeal by way of case stated by the Director of Public Prosecutions against a decision of District Judge Purdy in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court on 22 January 2007. The judge ruled that there was no case for the Respondent, Brian Haw, to answer on a charge of knowingly failing to comply with a condition imposed under Section 134 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ('SOCA') in respect of a demonstration in Parliament Square. The hearing before the Administrative Court was adjourned because Mr Haw had not been served with relevant documents in time to give them proper consideration.

Directions hearing, 18 November 2008

Haw sought a large number of directions from the court on 18 November 2008. Afer some delay the directions of the court were eventually published in March 2009:

''Haw, R (on the application of) v Southwark Crown Court & Ors'' [2009] EWHC 379 (Admin) (3 March 2009)

The court was un-persuaded that a full transcript of the hearing was necessary, even though Haw claimed that it would show that the court side-stepped the issue as to the legality of the seizure.

Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions

The case of Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions, 2007 was an appeal by way of case stated. The appellant, Barbara Tucker, was convicted under Section 132 (1)(c) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA), of being within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, and carrying on unauthorised demonstration by herself in a public place in a designated area, namely Parliament Square. Her defence was that Haw had invited her to join him in his demonstration. He gave evidence on her behalf to that effect. The magistrate said: "Had I accepted this evidence (which I did not) it would have been argued that the allegation that she had 'carried on an unauthorised demonstration by herself ..... ' could not have been made out, and further more (in my view incorrectly) that it would provide a defence by saying that as Mr Haw is safe from prosecution anyone who joins him is also safe." The question posed by the magistrate was: "Was it lawful under section 6 (1) HRA to convict the appellant?" The Administrative Court held that SOCPA was not incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (specifically, Articles 10 (freedom of expression) and 11 (freedom of assembly)), and that Tucker's conviction was therefore lawful.

January 2008 injury and arrest

On 12 January, Haw was observing a protest against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, outside Downing Street. Seven people were arrested (including Haw), who said "I was filming the students lying down in the road when one officer stepped forward, as I was walking back, and pushed the camera with his hand. It struck my face." He accused the police of using "violent and humiliating force".

2008 London mayoral elections

In December 2007 press releases stated that Haw had declared himself a candidate in the London Mayoral Elections in May 2008, but eventually he did not stand. On 17 April 2008 he joined Frank Maloney and Winston McKenzie in support of the Christian Choice candidate Alan Craig.

25 May 2010 arrest

On 25 May 2010 the day of the State Opening of Parliament for the new Conservative-Liberal coalition government, Haw was arrested at 8:30 am.

Illness and death

In September 2010 Haw was diagnosed with lung cancer. On 1 January 2011 he left England to receive treatment in Berlin. Haw, who was described as a chain smoker, continued to smoke cigarettes until his death. Haw died in Germany in the early hours of 18 June 2011 of lung cancer. He is survived by seven children.

Reacting to news of Haw's death, Tony Benn said "Brian Haw was a man of principle [...] his death marks the end of a historic enterprise by a man who gave everything to support his beliefs". At his death Al Jazeera described him as an "unsung hero". Mark Wallinger said "I admired [Haw's] single-minded tenacity. His rectitude was a mirror that the people in the building opposite couldn't bear. [...] Now that he's gone, who else have we got?". The British MP John McDonnell has called for a statue of Haw to be assembled to celebrate peace. British artist Banksy honoured Haw with a tribute on his website.

London Assembly Member Jenny Jones called for Westminster Council to erect a blue plaque for Brian Haw immediately, bypassing English Heritage's criteria that the person commemorated should have been dead for two decades or passed the centenary of their birth, whichever is the earlier.

In culture

In January 2007, former Turner Prize nominee Mark Wallinger recreated Brian Haw’s Parliament Square protest in its entirety as an exhibition at Tate Britain, titled State Britain. Running the length of the Duveen Gallery, ''State Britain'' was a painstaking reconstruction of the display confiscated by the Metropolitan Police in 2006. It included 500 weather-worn banners, photos, peace flags, and messages from well-wishers collected by Haw over the duration of the Peace Protest, as well as his self-constructed shelter. In December 2007 Wallinger's work won the Turner Prize.

The London-based band XX Teens recorded a song "For Brian Haw", which was included on their 2008 album ''Welcome To Goon Island''. The track incorporated a statement by Haw himself about his motivations for the protest.

Free music pioneer Sean Terrington Wright dedicated his 12th CD album "War No More", released in 2008, to Haw. In September 2011 Wright wrote "Ballad Of Brian Haw" for his "Vox Pop" album.

Haw was featured in the short length documentary ''Maria: 24hr Peace Picket'' by Iranian film director Parviz Jahed, about fellow peace campaigner Maria Gallastegui.

In 2009 Youth Music Theatre: UK developed the music theatre production ''According to Brian Haw...'' based on reactions by young people to Haw's life, 9/11 and the Iraq war. This was performed at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth.

Zia Trench's debut play, ''The State We're In'', based on Haw's life, was performed for the first time at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe, featuring Michael Byrne in the lead role and directed by Justin Butcher. Trench said: "There is a messianic illusion around him, something so Jesus-like about him. "He has taken on our fight but what has this cost him? The play looks at the man behind the protest and how battles fought for liberty can cost a man his wife, home and sanity."

See also

Concepcion Picciotto, a Spanish-American protester who has lived in a similar peace camp outside the White House since the 1980s

Mark Thomas

Iraq sanctions

References

External links

Brian Haw No Longer Allowed to do Peaceful Protest at Parliament Square

Not the Queen's Speech

Parliament Square Brian Haw's supporter's site

Brian Haw: Veteran peace campaigner who occupied Parliament Square for a decade in protest at war (The Independent 20 June 2011)

Rebel With A Cause (The Independent 20 June 2011)

Death of Brian Haw prompts rallying to the peace cause (The Independent 20 June 2011)

Mark Wallinger: Brian Haw was the conscience of a nation grown quiescent (The Independent 20 June 2011)

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, sections 132 et seq

List of votes relating to Protesting in Parliament Square from Public Whip

Brian Haw speaking about his 2000 days of protest (45mins approx) from Dissident Vox

3D Panorama of the peace protest (requires QuickTime)

Metropolitan Police map of the exclusion zone

http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,,2004876,00.html

Video showing his January 2008 arrest

FredsVagt Christiansborg, the parallel demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark

Video interview – Brian Haw in his own words

A tribute to Brian Haw on RechargedMagazine.com (includes 30 minutes of previously unreleased interview footage)

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Name	Juliano Mer-Khamis
Birth name	Juliano Khamis
Birth date	May 29, 1958
Birth place	Nazareth, Israel
Death date	April 04, 2011
Death place	Jenin, West Bank
Death cause	Assassination
resting place	Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, Israel
Occupation	Actor, director, activist
Years active	1984–2011}}

Juliano Mer-Khamis (, ; ‎29 May 19584 April 2011) was an Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist of Jewish and Christian Arab parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he established the Freedom Theatre.

Biography

Juliano Khamis (later Mer-Khamis) was born in Nazareth, the son of Arna Mer-Khamis, a Jewish communist, and Saliba Khamis, an Israeli Arab of Palestinian Christian descent who was an intellectual as well as one of the leaders of the Israeli Communist Party in the 1950s. He had two brothers, Spartacus and Abir. His grandfather was Gideon Mer, a scientist who pioneered the study of malaria during the British Mandate. In his youth, he adopted his maternal surname, Mer, and served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a combat soldier in the Paratroopers Brigade. In a 2009 interview with Israel Army Radio, Mer-Khamis said of his background: "I am 100 percent Palestinian and 100 percent Jewish."

Mer-Khamis was married to Jenny, a Finnish activist he met in Haifa. They had a son, Jay, and were expecting the birth of twins at the time of his death.

Film and acting career

Mer-Khamis's first film, ''The Little Drummer Girl'', was an American thriller from 1984 directed by George Roy Hill and starring Diane Keaton, which dealt with the Israeli-Arab conflict. He starred in Avi Nesher's film, ''Za'am V'Tehilah'' (1985). Later he appeared in such Israeli films as ''51 Bar'' (1985), ''Wedding in Galilee'' (1987), ''Tel Aviv Stories'' (1992), ''Zohar'' (1993), ''Under the Domim Tree'' (1994), and ''Overture 1812'' (1997). He appeared in several films by Amos Gitai: ''Kedma'', ''Esther'' (1986) and ''Kippur'' (2000).

In 2002, Mer-Khamis was nominated for the Ophir award for Best Actor for his role in ''Kedma''. One of the last films in which he appeared was the Palestinian film ''Salt of this Sea'' (2008), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He performed on stage with Beit Lessin Theater and Habima Theatre. In 2003, he produced and directed his first documentary film, ''Arna's Children'', together with Danniel Danniel. The film is about his mother's work to establish a children's theatre group in Jenin during the 1980s. Seven years after the death of his mother, and following the battle in Jenin in 2002, Mer-Khamis returned to Jenin to meet and interview the children who participated in the theater, and found out that some became militants and were killed.

In 2006, following a wave of international support which was followed by his film, Mer-Khamis opened a community theater for children and adults in Jenin, called The Freedom Theatre.

The Freedom Theatre

In 2006, Mer-Khamis established the Freedom Theatre along with Zakaria Zubeidi, a former military leader of the Jenin Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Jonatan Stanczak, a Swedish-Israeli activist, and Dror Feiler, a Swedish-Israeli artist. The Freedom Theatre is a community theatre that provides opportunities for the children and youth of the Jenin Refugee Camp by developing skills, self-knowledge and confidence and using the creative process as a model for social change.

Assassination

Mer-Khamis was shot by masked gunmen in front of the theater he founded in Jenin. He was rushed to the Jenin Hospital, where he was pronounced dead after his arrival. PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned the killing saying that "We cannot stand silent in the face of this ugly crime, it constitutes a grave violation that goes beyond all principles and human values and it contravenes with the customs and ethics of co-existence."

After being identified by the baby-sitter (who'd been in the car when the assassination occurred) in three separate line-ups, Palestinian police charged Mujahed Qaniri, from Jenin's refugee camp, with having carried out the murder. There are varying accounts of Qamiri's affiliation, some describe him as a former member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades who defected to Hamas, but a Hamas spokesman has denied any involvement, describing this as a purely criminal incident.

On 19 April 2011, Adnan Dameery, spokesperson of the Palestinian Security Forces, reported DNA tests had exonerated a detained suspect and that the murderer was still at large.

Filmography

''Not Quite Paradise'' ''Za'am V'Tehilah'' ''51 Bar'' ''Esther (film) ''Wedding in Galilee (Urs al-Jalil)'' ''Berlin-Yerushalaim'' ''Sipurei Tel-Aviv (Tel Aviv Stories)'' ''Zohar (film) ''Deadly Heroes'' ''Nothing to Lose (1994 film) ''Under the Domim Tree (Etz Hadomim Tafus)'' ''Yom Yom'' ''Night Terrors (film)'' ''Overture 1812 (film) ''The Last Warrior (2000 film) ''Kippur'' ''Kedma (film) ''Arna's Children'' ''Tahara (film) ''Salt of this Sea'' ''Hadutha Saghira'' ''Miral''

Year !! Film !! Role !! Notes
1984	The Little Drummer Girl (film)>The Little Drummer Girl''	Julio
1985	|	Hassan (terrorist)
1985	|
1985	|	Thomas
1986	Esther'' ||	Haman (Bible)>Haman
1987	|	Officer
1989	|	Menahme
1993	|	Jeno
1993	Zohar'' ||	Morris
1993	|	Ramon
1994	Nothing to Lose'' ||	Antonio Valdez
1994	|	Ariel
1994	|	Jules
1995	|	Mahmoud (as Juliano Mer)
1997	Overture 1812'' ||
2000	The Last Patrol'' ||	Jesus Carrero
2000	|	The Captain
2002	Kedma'' ||	Moussa
2003	|	Himself	Won FIPRESCI Prize
2004	God's Sandbox (Tahara)'' ||	Nagim	Nominated for Best Actor
2008	|	Hiking leader	Palestinian submission for Oscar in "Best Foreign Language Film" category
2009	|	Israeli soldier
2010	|	Shaikh Saabah

Television and video

''Sweating Bullets(TV series) ''The Revolutionary (video) ''The Revolutionary II (video) ''Florentine (TV series) ''1000 Calories (movie) ''Dijihad!''

Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
1995	Hostages (1992 TV series)>Hostages''	Ali
1992	Sweating Bullets'' ||	Melito	Series – played in "''Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby''" episode
1995	The Revolutionary'' ||	Centurion	Video
1996	The Revolutionary II'' ||	Centurion	Video
1998	Florentine'' ||	Remi	Series
2001	1000 Calories'' ||	Eitan Katz	TV movie
2006	|	Omar	TV movie

References

External links

The Murder of an Actor/Activist – slideshow by ''Life magazine''

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