Phyllis Bennis

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Full Name	Phyllis Bennis
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1951(1951-01-19)
Age	73
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Phyllis Bennis Biography

Phyllis Bennis is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 19, 1951 in United States. Phyllis Bennis (born January 19, 1951) is an American writer, activist, and political commentator. Focusing mainly on issues related to the Middle East and the United Nations, she is a strong critic of Israel and the United States and a leading advocate of Palestinian rights.

She is also co-editor of Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader (1991) and Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order (1993).

The IPS describes her as having worked with the UN “on several issues related to Palestine and the Middle East” and as advising “several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues.” The IPS adds that she “has played an active role in the growing global peace movement” since 2002.

She is also a founding member of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, which was established in 2002 during the Second Intifada, and currently serves on its steering committee. She is a leader of United for Peace & Justice and co-chairs the UN’s International Coordinating Network on Palestine.

Bennis is a staunch opponent of what she regards as American imperialism and believes that actions should be taken to counter American and Western global hegemony. In the 1990s, she opposed US-led sanctions against Iraq and the US war on Iraq. In the early 2000s, she came out strongly against the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and has supported anti-American movements in those countries. Deploring what she sees as the excessive influence of the US at the UN, she has argued that the international organization “desperately needs reform,” and she blames the failure to implement reform on the “anachronistic” determination of US and other Security Council permanent members “to orchestrate the post-war world.”

Phyllis Bennis Net Worth

Phyllis Bennis is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phyllis Bennis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bennis has suggested that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would begin with “the creation of a truly independent, sovereign, and democratic State of Palestine to be constructed on the 22 percent of historic Palestine that Israel occupied in 1967: the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.” Under this arrangement, “Israel and Palestine, as equals, would jointly exchange full diplomatic relations” and “Israeli settlers would be given the option of moving to new homes inside Israel, or remaining in their homes as citizens of Palestine.” In addition, “Jerusalem would be an open city, with two separate capitals within it: the capital of Israel in West Jerusalem, and the capital of Palestine in East Jerusalem.” She also advocates for Palestinians’ right of return to Israel.

Bennis is a political activist who has been active in the Middle East since the 1970s and who covered the United Nations in the 1980s. In 1987, she witnessed the First Intifada and began to take a serious interest in pro- Palestinian advocacy. She made three additional trips to the Middle East in 1988 and 1989, and her experiences during this period led to a book, From Stones to Statehood: The Palestinian Uprising (1990), in which she describes the first two years of the Intifada and makes the case for a Palestinian homeland.

In 1999, Bennis accompanied a group of congressional aides to Iraq, examining the impact of U.S.-led economic sanctions on humanitarian conditions there.

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Noting the simultaneous exchange and release by Hamas of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and by Israel of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, Bennis argued in an October 2011 article for Al-Jazeera that the disparity in numbers reflected the “control Israel wields over the occupied Palestinian population”: while Hamas “control[s] the life of exactly one Israeli, a captured soldier,” Israel “directly maintains power over the lives of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.” To Bennis, Israel’s holding of Palestinian prisoners is not about addressing genuine security threats but about “demoralis[ing]” Palestinians and “undermin[ing] the family unity that provides the crucial basis for Palestinians’ sumud, or steadfastness, in resisting occupation.”

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Piero Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Phyllis Bennis celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

She described ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s August 2011 trial as “the iconic emblem of the Arab Spring: a repressive US-backed dictator, suddenly brought down by popular mobilization and displayed behind bars in the defendants’ cage of a Cairo courtroom.”