By Justice for Kurds
On October 30, 2019, Justice for Kurds announced its Advisory Council in The New York Times and told our Kurdish friends: you are not alone.
With this message, we reaffirm our solidarity with the Kurdish people and share that our Advisory Council has multiplied – a testament to the strong and unwavering support the Kurds enjoy in America and around the world.
In the critical fight against ISIS, the Kurds lost over 11,000 brave women and men while an additional 34,000 were wounded. Thanks to their extraordinary courage and sacrifice, American casualties in combat were limited to fewer than a dozen heroic souls.
Today, we give thanks to the Kurds – our valiant, loyal and true partners.
Today – and tomorrow – we stand with the Kurds.
Justice for Kurds announces that the following individuals constitute the newly formed Advisory Council of Justice for Kurds.
FOUNDERS
Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan
Chairman
Entrepreneur and Conservationist
Bernard-Henri Lévy
President
Philosopher, Filmmaker and Activist
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Marina Abramović
Performance artist, Writer and Filmmaker
Elliot Ackerman
Novelist and Journalist
Ron Agam
Visual artist
Jane Alexander
Actress of Stage and Screen and Wildlife conservationist
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Human Rights Activist and Founder of the AHA Foundation
Svetlana Alexievich
Writer and 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
Ros Altmann, The Baroness Altmann CBE
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament and Former Minister of State
David Alton, The Lord Alton of Liverpool
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament and Member of the International Relations and Defence Committee
Anne Applebaum
Columnist, The Washington Post and Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute – Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Armstrong, The Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Former Minister for the Cabinet Office and for Social Exclusion
Jacques Audibert
Former Diplomatic Advisor to President François Hollande of France
Elisabeth Badinter
Philosopher and writer
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael D. Barbero
Former Deputy Commander of United States Forces–Iraq and Former Commander of NATO Training Mission Iraq
Professor Henri J. Barkey
Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
The Honorable Howard L. Berman
Former United States Representative for California and Former Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
Paul Berman
Critic-at-Large of Tablet Magazine and Author of Power and the Idealists and other books
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, The Washington Post columnist
Geraldine Brooks
Journalist and Author
Tina Brown
Founder and CEO, Tina Brown Live Media and Women in the World
The Honorable Jeb Bush
Former Governor of Florida
Véronique Cayla
President, ARTE France
Ambassador Wendy J. Chamberlin
President Emeritus, Middle East Institute, Former Deputy High Commissioner on Refugees, United Nations, and Former United States Ambassador to Pakistan
Richard Clarke
Chairman, Middle East Institute and Former Chairman of the National Security Council’s Counter-terrorism Security Group
Glenn Close
Actress of Stage and Screen and Wildlife conservationist
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Former Member of the European Parliament
Ray Collins, The Lord Collins of Highbury
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Former General Secretary of The Labour Party
The Honourable Irwin Cotler
Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Olivier Cousi
Lawyer, President of the Paris Bar Association
Lucinda Creighton
CEO of Vulcan Consulting, Former Minister of State for European Affairs, Republic of Ireland
Laurent Dassault
Co-Managing Director, Dassault Group
Sir Mick Davis
Former Chief Executive of The Conservative Party
Charles Davidson
Publisher, The American Interest
David N. Dinkins
106th Mayor, City of New York
Jovan Divjak
Former Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ambassador Eric Edelman
Former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Former Ambassador to Turkey
Susan Engel
Executive Producer, 92Y Talks
Delphine Ernotte
Chief Executive Officer of France Télévisions
Professor Hany Farid
Data Analysis Specialist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California – Berkeley
Mia Farrow
Actor and Activist
Sally Fischer
President and Founder, Sally Fischer Public Relations
Caroline Fourest
Journalist, Writer and Director of Sisters in Arms
Abraham Foxman
Head, Center for The Study of Anti-Semitism – Museum of Jewish Heritage and Director Emeritus, Anti-Defamation League
David Gakunzi
Former President of the International Martin Luther King Center in Rwanda and Burundi
Ambassador Peter Galbraith
Author, Academic, Policy adviser, former United States Ambassador to Croatia, and former United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Jay Garner
Former Director of The Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq (2003)
Jeffrey Gedmin
Editor-in-Chief, The American Interest
Ina Giscard d’Estaing
Director of Special Projects – Department of External Relations, Louvre Museum
Raphaël Glucksmann
Essayist and Member of the European Parliament
Benjamin James Goldsmith
Financier and Environmentalist
Adam Gopnik
Writer and Essayist, The New Yorker
David Harris
Chief Executive Officer, American Jewish Committee
Ambassador Jane D. Hartley
Former United States Ambassador to France
Anne Hidalgo
Mayor of Paris
Delphine Horvilleur
Rabbi and Author
David Howell, The Lord Howell of Guildford
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Former Minister of State and Former Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
Richard Hurowitz
Publisher, The Octavian Report
Jeremy Irons
Actor of Stage and Screen
The Honorable Steve Israel
Former United States Representative for New York
Elfriede Jelinek
Author and Recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
Laurent Joffrin
Editor-in-Chief, Libération
Garry Kasparov
Former World Chess Champion and Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation
John Kerr, The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Former Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Former Ambassador to the United States
James Kirchick
Author and Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
The Honorable Mark Kirk
Former United States Senator for Illinois
Beate Klarsfeld
German militant for Justice
Serge Klarsfeld
Author and Activist
Bernard Kouchner
Physician and Politician, Co-Founder of Médecins sans Frontières and Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France
William Kristol
Political Analyst and Commentator
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Sir Graeme Lamb
Former Director, United Kingdom Special Forces and Commander of the Field Army
The Honorable Mary Landrieu
Former United States Senator for Louisiana
Jack Lang
President, Institut du monde arabe, Former Minister of Culture and Former Minister of Education of France
Professor James A. Levinsohn
Director, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs – Yale University
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte
Former Ambassador of France to the United States and to the United Nations, Former Head of the National Security Council
Maurice Lévy
Chairman, Publicis Groupe
Daniel Libeskind
Founder and Principal Architect, Studio Libeskind
James Lieber
Founder, Lieber Strategies
The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman
Former United States Senator for Connecticut
Guadalupe Loaeza
Writer
António Lobo Antunes
Writer, Recipient of the 2007 Camões Prize
Bill Maher
Host, Producer and Writer of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher
Dr. Michael Makovsky
President and CEO, Jewish Institute for National Security of America
Fern Mallis
Creator of New York Fashion Week and Former Executive Director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America
Abakar Manany
Chairman, Amjet Executive SA
Kati Marton
Author and Human Rights Activist
General (Ret.) Stanley A. McChrystal
Founder, McChrystal Group and Former Commander, United States Joint Special Operations Command
The Honorable Claudia A. McMurray
Former United States Assistant Secretary of State
Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn, The Lord Mendelsohn
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament and Member of the International Relations and Defence Committee
Alain Minc
Economist
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Richard F. Natonski
Former Commander of United States Marine Corps Forces Command
Michael A. Newton
Professor of the Practice of Law and Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, and Former Senior Advisor to the Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State
Jean Nouvel
Architect, Studio Jean Nouvel
Monroe Palmer, The Lord Palmer of Childs Hill OBE
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament and Deputy Speaker
Ruth and Judea Pearl
Co-Founders, Daniel Pearl Foundation
Valérie Pécresse
President, Île-de-France Regional Council, former Minister of Higher Education and Research and former Minister of the Budget of France
Marty Peretz
Publisher and Former Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic
General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus
Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, United States Army Commander and Strategist, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
David L. Phillips
Director, Program on Peace-building and Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights – Columbia University and Former Senior Adviser to the U.S. Department of State
Stuart Polak, The Lord Polak CBE
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament
Arnaud de Puyfontaine
Chief Executive Officer, Vivendi
The Honorable Bill Richardson
Former Governor of New Mexico, Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and Former Secretary of Energy
Robert Richer
Former Associate Deputy Director of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency
Rob Riemen
Writer and Founder and President of The Nexus Institute
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
Director of American Jewish Committee, Europe
Barry Rosen
Former Press Attaché, United States Embassy in Iran (held hostage from 1979-1981)
Thane Rosenbaum
Novelist, Essayist and Law Professor
Howard Rosenman
Movie and television Producer, Actor, Writer
Isabella Rossellini
Actress, Filmmaker, Author and Activist
Eric de Rothschild
Chairman, Mémorial de la Shoah
Norman T. Roule
Former National Intelligence Manager for Iran
Olivier Royant
Editor-in-Chief, Paris Match
Paul Salem
President, The Middle East Institute
Roberto Saviano
Writer, Essayist and Screenwriter
Sir Simon Schama
Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University, Author, Documentary Filmmaker for the BBC and Contributing Editor to The Financial Times
Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler
Former Coordinator and Expert of the ISIL/Al -Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team, United Nations Security Council
Dov Seidman
Author of How and Founder and Chairman of LRN
Vance Serchuk
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
The Honorable Radoslaw Sikorski
Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the EU-USA Delegation and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Mitch Silber
Founding Principal of The Guardian Group and Former Director of Intelligence Analysis at the New York City Police Department
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Peter Sloterdijk
Philosopher and Author
Timothy Simon Spicer, OBE
Former Lieutenant-Colonel in the United Kingdom Scots Guards and Founder of Aegis Defense Services
Gloria Steinem
Writer and Feminist Activist
Michael Steinhardt
Chair, The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life and Co-Chair, The Areivim Philanthropic Group
Bret Stephens
Columnist, The New York Times and Recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Sting
Musician and Activist
Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy and former Ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations
Achilles Tsaltas
President, Athens Democracy Forum (in association with The New York Times)
The Right Honourable Tom Tugendhat
Member of the House of Commons, United Kingdom Parliament and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Leslie Turnberg, The Lord Turnberg
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament
Manuel Valls
Former Prime Minister of France
Mario Vargas Llosa
Writer and Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
Ambassador Mark Wallace
Chief Executive Officer of UANI and Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform
Michael Walzer
Philosopher and Professor Emeritus at The Institute for Advanced Study
Bari Weiss
Opinion Staff Editor and Writer, The New York Times
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
Former Curator, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Professor James E. Young
Founding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Adam Zagajewski
Poet, Novelist and Recipient of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Dov Zakheim
Vice-Chairman, Foreign Policy Research Institute and Former United States Under Secretary of Defense
About Justice for Kurds
Justice for Kurds (JFK) is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate and raise public awareness about the Kurdish cause, politics, history, culture and societies in America and abroad. To read our Mission Statement visit www.justiceforkurds.org and to get involved, please contact: Emily Hamilton, JFK’s Executive Director at emily@justiceforkurds.org.
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