FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with the new Executive Director of B’Tselem, Yuli Novak, about the opportunities and challenges for human rights protection in an apartheid regime, as well as the relationship between personal and political change.
Recorded on September 3, 2023
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Resources & Bios
B’Tselem: www.btselem.org
Relevant FMEP conversations:
- Podcast with B’Tselem Board Chair Orly Noy, journalist Peter Beinart, scholar Natasha Roth-Rowland, and FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin: The Vocabulary of Oppression: Jewish Supremacy from the River to the Sea, October 2022
- This is Apartheid with former B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad and journalist Peter Beinart, January 2021
Yuli Novak is the Executive Director of B’tselem – The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. She was Executive Director of Breaking the Silence from 2012-2017. She is the author of a personal-political memoir entitled “Who do you think you are?” published in Hebrew in 2021.
Sarah Anne Minkin is the Director of Programs & Partnerships at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.