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Greta K. Berlin (born April 6, 1941)[1] is in media communications and is a volunteer anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist. She has gained international attention as a spokesperson for the Free Gaza Movement (FGM), which she co-founded.[2]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 Political Activism
4 Controversy
5 References
Biography
Berlin was born April 6, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan and received higher education in Illinois where she obtained a BA in speech and English from MacMurray College and an MA in theatre and mass communications from the University of Illinois. She also took several engineering courses when she began teaching engineers.[3]
Personal life
Upon entering graduate school at the University of Illinois in 1963, Greta met her first husband Ribhi, who was a Palestinian refugee from Safed. They have a daughter, Kristin (b. 1964) and a son, Michael (b. 1967). The marriage lasted for 14 years.[4] Her second husband was A. J. Berlin. She founded GKB Associates in 1977, a training and media coaching firm "that trained scientists and engineers to [sic] design and deliver technical presentations to large multinational conferences".[5] Her second marriage also lasted 14 years.
Political Activism
According to Berlin's own account, her anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activism started with the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967. Greta and her husband Ribhi then founded Pal-Aid International Inc, one of the first NGOs in Chicago providing medical supplies and relief to Palestinians.[4]
Greta Berlin calls Israel an "illegal entity" and "a country founded on terrorism" and she believes that Congress is "occupied" by "the Israeli lobby."[6] Berlin belongs to the "Los Angeles Chapter" of Women in Black that according to her own account "essentially believes in a one state solution, the right of return and the fact that there will be no peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians are granted their human rights and their civil rights."[7]
In 2003 she began to work for the ISM (International Solidarity Movement) in the West Bank, working in the media office in Beit Sahour and living in Jenin during many of the Israeli raids into that city. She went back to the West Bank in 2005 and 2007.[8]
In 2006 she co-founded the Free Gaza Movement.[9][10] and was the major spokesperson for the flotilla involved in the Gaza flotilla raid on May 31, 2010.[11][12] She continues to criticize Israel's blockade of Gaza, and claims it is unlawful[13], that it has persisted for 20 years and "was about stealing the natural gas of Gaza."[14]
She is the co-author and co-editor of a new book, Freedom Sailors, How We Succeeded in Breaking Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza in Spite of Ourselves.[15] The book was released on August 23, 2012. An Electronic Intifada reviewer wrote "Freedom Sailors...offers an often-riveting narrative and gives important information about the inhumane consequences of Israel’s siege. But this book may ultimately be valued simply for documenting the fact that a group of ordinary people came up with an extraordinary idea that succeeded in calling world attention to the plight of Gaza’s 1.6 million people." [16]
Controversy
Berlin has been accused of being antisemitic following a controversial tweet, originating from her Facebook account, and published under the account of the Free Gaza Movement. The tweet read “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews" and contained a link to a video recording of a speech by conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins claiming that Zionists are responsible for the Holocaust and are admirers of Hitler.[17][18] The Free Gaza Movement later deleted the tweet.[19] Berlin apologized once the post became known to a wider audience. She declared that she had "shared it without watching it,"[20] and she implied no endorsement of Mullins' antisemitic views. She claimed she merely intended to post the video and comment in a private Facebook group where she had been participating in a discussion of similar propaganda.[21][22] In response to claims from those with access to the Facebook page that no such discussion was actually taking place,[23] Berlin stated in an interview that she could not publish a copy of the discussion.[21] Larry Derfner then published a statement by sixteen people, stating that "ours is a small and secret Facebook group, 37 members strong" and that the group had been discussing "the role of the Zionist movement during the Holocaust" when Berlin posted her remarks.[21]
Jewish Voices for Peace responded by saying "we appreciate Greta Berlin’s statements in response to the furor, we unfortunately don’t think her responses adequately address our concern about circulating anti-semitic materials," and that they "are disassociating ourselves from sponsorship of Berlin’s current book tour in the U.S. or future endorsements of Free Gaza Movement actions."[24]The Free Gaza Twitter account, controlled by Berlin, had also tweeted a link to a different antisemitic film on September 21, 2012. The tweet read, “1943- Im Wald von Katyn,” and linked to the film Im Wald von Katyn, which is a Nazi-made film that sought to blame Jews for carrying out an alleged 1940 massacre of Polish nationals.[20][25][26]
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