Halevi, Ilan

Born into a Jewish family in Lyon, France, in 1943, “under a false name ... at the post office, which was the shelter of the Resistance movement, ” as his older brother Mark Albert confirmed. After the death of his father, Henri Levin, his mother Blanche married Emil Albert, and he adopted her children ^[5] . Some sources mistakenly claim that his father was a Yemenite Jew whose family settled in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 20th century ^[6] ; according to his brother Halevi Mark, when Halevi went to Israel , “he received a passport with the certificate of a Yemeni who lived there” and this is the reason why his origin is sometimes indicated as Yemeni ^[5] .

In the early 1960s, he worked in the literary magazines Les Temps modernes and Présence Africaine . His first novel, Intersection, published in 1964 ^[5] , received favorable reviews and was described by Lillian Smith in The Saturday Review as “a brilliant, mind-blowing story about a young man’s journey from nowhere to hell ... a fresh look at the layered the agony of walled youth ” ^[7]

In 1965, at the age of 22, Alain Alber moved to Israel, where he began to use the surname Halevi ^[5] . They said that according to him, he “came to Israel, because in Algeria I discovered the importance of the Palestinian problem. I sat there in coffee houses, heard people, spoke with intellectuals, and I realized that the Palestinian question worries the people of the Arab world , it really is at the center of their obsessive thoughts. I decided that I want to study this reality closely and from the inside ... I wanted to study the Israeli reality ” ^[8] Halevi joined the Palestinian resistance movement and, in particular, Fatah after the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 ^[4] , and subsequently became prominent member of the PLO. He was the representative of the PLO in Europe and the Socialist International , as well as the PLO Deputy Foreign Minister, participating in this capacity at the 1991 Madrid Conference . Halevi was elected a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council in 2009 ^[9] and served as an adviser to Yasser Arafat ^{[10] [11]} . He was awarded the Distinction Medal for his role in supporting the Palestinian struggle of President Mahmoud Abbas. ^[4]

In the early 1970s, Halevi was a member of Maawak (“The Struggle”), “a small radical Israeli anti-Zionist group” ^[5] . Prior to this, he was part of the ultra-left anti-Zionist organization Matzpen , from which Maawak separated ^[8] . Ian Halevi joined the PLO in 1976, a year after moving to Paris ^[5] .

After the signing of the 1994 peace agreements, Halevi lived in Jerusalem and then in Ramallah . His home in Ramallah was destroyed during Operation Rampart in 2002. Ilan Halevi died in Clichy July 10, 2013 at the age of 69 years ^[5] . Farewell to him took place in Paris in the crematorium of the cemetery of Pere Lachaise ^[12] .

• Alain Albert, The Crossing (novel), New York: George Braziller, 1964; London: Heinemann , 1965. French trans. by Georges Levin as La traversée , Paris: Éditions du Seuil , 1965.
• Sous Israël, la Palestine , Paris: Le Sycomore, 1978; Minerve, 1987.
• Israël, de la terreur au massacre d'Etat , Paris: Papyrus, 1984.
• Question juive: la tribu, la loi, l'espace , Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1981. Translated into English by AM Berrett as A History of the Jews: Ancient and Modern , London: Zed Books , 1987. Published in German as Auf der Suche nach dem gelobten Land: Die Geschichte der Juden und der Palastma-Konflikt , Hamburg: Junius, 1986. Reissued as Jewish Question: Tribe, Law and Space , Syllepse Editions, 2016. ^[13]
• Face à la guerre. Lettre de Ramallah , Paris: Sindbad / Actes Sud, 2003. ^[14]
• Allers-retours , Paris: Flammarion , 2005. ^[15] A semi-autobiographical novel critical of Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians.
• Islamophobie et judéophobie - L'effet miroir , Syllepse , 2015. ISBN 978-2-84950-463-5
• Du souvenir, du mensonge et de l'oubli: Chroniques palestiniennes . Paris: Actes Sud, 2016. ISBN 978-2-330-07057-1 ^[16]

• Yezid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 , Oxford University Press , 1999.

• Ilan Halevi, Le droit du peuple palestinien à lutter contre l'occupation (French)
• Ilan Halevi, Encore une fois à propos du sionisme et de l'antisémitisme , 2003. (Fr.)
• Jean-Pierre Perrin, "Ilan Halevi, l'âme en paix" , Libération , July 10, 2013. (fr.)
• Ofer Aderet, "Ilan Halevi, Jewish member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, dies in Paris" , Haaretz , July 10, 2013.
• AFPS, "Avec Ilan Halévi, nous venons de perdre un ami de toujours" , Association France Palestine Solidarité, July 10, 2013.
• Pierre Haski , “Mort d'Ilan Halevi, intellectuel engagé, '100% juif et 100% arabe'” , Rue 89, July 11, 2013.
• Michel Warschawski , Ilan Halevi (1943–2013) , Alternative Information Center (AIC), July 11, 2013.
• Ben Lynfield (Jerusalem), "Fatah pays tribute to Ilan Halevi - an Israeli Jew who 'defected' to the PLO," The Independent , July 11, 2013.
• Margaret Busby, “Ilan Halevi: Jewish author, journalist and politician who rose to prominence in the PLO” (obituary) , The Independent , July 25, 2013.
• Ilan Halevy (obituary) , The Telegraph , August 12, 2013.
• Nicole Lapierre, "Ilan Halévi, métèque générique" , Vagabondages Sociologiques (blog), Mediapart, July 13, 2013. (fr.)
• Farouk Mardam-Bey, “Ilan Halevi: Palestinian Jew and Citizen of the World, 1943–2013,” Journal of Palestine Studies , Vol. 43, No. 4 (Summer 2014), pp. 67-70.
• Ella Habiba Shohat, "A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meeting," Jadaliyya , September 30, 2014.