Interviews

Gershon Baskin was successful in engaging a new swath of the Israeli public at a time when political upheaval has taken Israel by storm.

Student groups J Street U and Wes for Peace hosted social and political activist Dr. Gershon Baskin to speak about his analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

J Street U Vassar hosted an event featuring Gershon Baskin, one of the foremost activists on the subject of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Gershon Baskin..would be the guy to come listen to, to understand what really happened,..This is the guy to sort things out.

David Myers, a UCLA history professor, objected to the AMCHA initiative characterization of Gershon Baskin as a critic of Israel. Gershon Baskin was interviewed in the film “Between Two Worlds,” which UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) screened in an event co-sponsored by UCLA’s history department and J Street U.

Gershon Baskin thinks that the Palestinians have concluded that negotiations with the government of Benjamin Netanyahu are a waste of time, and are meant to waste time while it continues to do what it does, which is to continue the occupation by building more settlements.

Gershon Baskin revealed that he had relayed a message from Hamas to the Israelis offering a return to the 2012 cease-fire agreement. According to Baskin, a senior Israeli army general dismissed the offer, telling Baskin not to interfere. “I didn’t [interfere] and they got their war,” said Baskin on Twitter.

The Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK), in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance and the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates has appointed Gershon Baskin to join some of the world’s most renown experts in the field of non-violence Read more