Justice for Kurds

Justice for Kurds Powerbase Website
Formation	2017
Headquarters	New York,USA
Membership	Thomas S. Kaplan,Bernard-Henri Lévy,Emily Hamilton,Marina Abramović,Elliot Ackerman,Ron Agam,Jane Alexander,Ayaan Hirsi Ali,Svetlana Alexievich,Ros Altmann,David Alton,Anne Applebaum,Hilary Armstrong,Jacques Audibert,Elisabeth Badinter, Michael D. Barbero, Henri J. Barkey,Howard L. Berman,Paul Berman,Max Boot,Geraldine Brooks,Tina Brown, Jeb Bush,Véronique Cayla, Wendy J. Chamberlin,Richard Clarke,Glenn Close,Daniel Cohn-Bendit,Ray Collins, Irwin Cotler,Olivier Cousi,Lucinda Creighton,Laurent Dassault,Sir Mick Davis,Charles Davidson,David N. Dinkins,Jovan Divjak, Eric Edelman,Susan Engel,Delphine Ernotte,Hany Farid,Mia Farrow,Sally Fischer,Caroline Fourest,Abraham Foxman,David Gakunzi, Peter Galbraith, Jay Garner,Jeffrey Gedmin,Ina Giscard d'Estaing,Raphaël Glucksmann,Benjamin James Goldsmith,Adam Gopnik,David Harris, Jane D. Hartley,Anne Hidalgo,Delphine Horvilleur,David Howell,Richard Hurowitz,Jeremy Irons, Steve Israel,Elfriede Jelinek,Laurent Joffrin,Garry Kasparov,John Kerr,James Kirchick, Mark Kirk,Beate Klarsfeld,Serge Klarsfeld,Bernard Kouchner,William Kristol,Graeme Lamb, Mary Landrieu,Jack Lang,James A. Levinsohn,Jean-David Levitte,Maurice Lévy,Daniel Libeskind,James Lieber, Joseph I. Lieberman,Guadalupe Loaeza,António Lobo Antunes,Bill Maher,Michael Makovsky,Fern Mallis,Abakar Manany,Kati Marton, Stanley A. McChrystal, Claudia A. McMurray,Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn,Alain Minc,Richard F. Natonski,Michael A. Newton,Jean Nouvel,Monroe Palmer,Ruth and Judea Pearl,Valérie Pécresse,Marty Peretz, David H. Petraeus,Stuart Polak,Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Bill Richardson,Robert Richer,Rob Riemen,Simone Rodan-Benzaquen,Barry Rosen,Thane Rosenbaum,Howard Rosenman,Isabella Rossellini,Eric de Rothschild,Norman T. Roule,Olivier Royant,Paul Salem,Roberto Saviano, Simon Schama,Hans-Jakob Schindler,Dov Seidman,Vance Serchuk,Radoslaw Sikorski,Mitch Silber,Anne-Marie Slaughter,Peter Sloterdijk,Timothy Simon Spicer, Gloria Steinem,Michael Steinhardt,Bret Stephens,Sting,Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata,Achilles Tsaltas,Tom Tugendhat,Leslie Turnberg, The Lord Turnberg,Manuel Valls,Mario Vargas Llosa, Mark Wallace,Michael Walzer,Bari Weiss,Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.,James E. Young,Adam Zagajewski,Dov Zakheim
More about the objectives of Israel than any genuine justice for Kurds.

Justice for Kurds' (JFK) is "a New York-based not profit group, is a Franco-American initiative "created to defend a loyal friend of the West: the Kurdish people."

Overview

Given its membership, it seems to be a neo-conservative group, and the purpose seems to be more about Israeli foreign policy objectives than any justice for Kurds. among the advisory counci and members are many connections with Western military and intelligence agencies, and exceptionally strong neoconservative and Zionist ties.

In 2021, Justice for Kurds hired the law firm Covington & Burling to "advocate for policies promoting the interests of the Kurdish people". The same year, President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani delivered a speech sponsored by The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University and Justice for Kurds.

There was an identically named organization, but with a left-wing angle, that together with the Progressive International delivered a letter to the EU institutions calling for the delisting of the Kurdish Workers Party as a terrorist group. It is unknown if there is any connection between the two groups.

People

The US branch is headed by Thomas S. Kaplan, who sits on the International Council at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, where he created, with General David Petraeus and Professor Graham Allison, the Recanati-Kaplan Intelligence Fellows program.

The French branch is led by Bernard-Henri Lévy, a celebrity "philosopher" who has never seen a Western war he didn't support.

Board as of 2024.