Henry Siegman

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Henry Siegman  link Sourcewatch (Writer, politician, academic)
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Born	1930 Frankfurt, Germany
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Jewish
US-Jewish academic and proponent of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, who was a panelist for the discussion about The Middle East at the 2002 Bilderberg

Henry Siegman is a US-Jewish academic and proponent of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, who was a panelist for the discussion about The Middle East at the 2002 Bilderberg.

Background

Siegman, a Jew, was born in 1930 in Frankfurt, Germany. Moving to the United States, Siegman studied and was ordained as an Orthodox Rabbi by Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. He was a United States Army chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart.

Career

Siegman was Executive Director of the liberal American Jewish Congress, during its heyday as one of American Jewry’s big three defense organizations, for 16 years from 1978 until 1994. In 1988, Siegman was behind a joint effort of the AJCongress, alongside the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and B’nai B’rith, to break away from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel Washington lobby, because of AIPAC’s hard line on issues relating to Israel and the Arab world.

From 1994 until 2006, he was president of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), an initiative focused on U.S.-Middle East policy that strives to advance peace through a dignified resolution of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and which was part of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). After 2006, after Jewish lobby pressure, it was changed to an independent policy institute.

He was general secretary of the American Association of Middle East Studies and editor of its quarterly Middle East Studies.

He was also sponsored by being given a Resident Scholarship at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. Siegman was also research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and was a non-resident researcher at FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior) in Spain.

By 2012, Siegman wrote that the two-state solution is no longer feasible and that Israel's settlement policy has ushered a one-state reality for Palestinians and Israelis.