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Sharon Dolev
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Sharon Dolev is a peace and human rights activist focusing on eliminating weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East. She does this through innovations in education, advocacy and activism to change public policies. She is the founder and director of the Israeli Disarmament Movement (IDM) and a co-founder and executive director of the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO). She also worked for a time with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.[1]

In October 2022 she was elected to the Council of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) for her advocacy of eradicating "nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East through innovative policy, education, advocacy and activism."[2] The IPB is one of the world's oldest international peace federation, founded in 1891.

Israeli Disarmament Movement

In 2010, the Palestine-Israel Journal featured an article by Dolev on "Creating an Anti-Nuclear Movement in Israel". This article describes "a new Israeli grassroots anti-nuclear movement" and a series of events they organized in Israel on this topic. However, this 2010 article did not provide a name for this movement.[3]

In 2012, Dolev and the Israeli Disarmament Movement hosted a visit by Hibakusha (survivors of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to Terl Aviv. The Times of Israel reported that " a palpably tense silence" followed the comment by Nagayama Iwao, one of the Hibakusha, that, "Through history, there were people that, if they had them [nuclear weapons] or had access to them, they would’ve used them — like Hitler."[4]

In 2013, Al Jazeera discussed the possibilities for a WMD-free Zone in the Middle East. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had recently addressed the United Nations, insisting that "Israel must declare it has nuclear capabilities." Dolev and her Israeli Disarmament Movement had been working to generate public debate on that issue. She said that people asked her "not to speak. They think the fact that I speak is putting Israel in danger."[5] Dolev (2013b) expanded on these issues in an article in Palestine-Israel Journal.

In 2016 the Israeli Disarmament Movement and 100 citizens of Israel petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice "to compel the secretive Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) to become more transparent through broad Knesset legislation." The Jerusalem Post quoted Dolev, director of the Israeli Disarmament Movement, as having said, "The ambiguity typifying the work of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission has become dangerous in itself for Israeli citizens." The petitioners included Avner Cohen, a leading expert on Israel's nuclear program. He said that the petitioners had been working on this for roughly a year and filed it "only weeks after" numerous reports appeared in the press "that the reactor southeast of Dimona has 1,537 cracks." The petitioners agreed that some secrecy was required, but the IAEC should nevertheless be subject to some oversight by the Knesset.[6]

A 12 October 2017 publication by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) said, 'the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, in conjunction with the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), hosted a panel discussion entitled, “A Draft Treaty for a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East: Time to Envisage the Practical.” The speakers included ... Sharon Dolev of BASIC in Israel and founder/director of the Israeli Disarmament Movement (IDM)".[7]

On 25 December 2017, journalist Yael Marom said that, "Sharon Dolev ... [is] one of the bravest and most determined activists I know", because "For years she has worked alongside a small group of dedicated activists on one of the issues about which Israel usually prefers to remain silent." In this case, the Israeli media preferred to ignore the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, apparently because the recipient was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), of which Dolev's Israeli Disarmament Movement was part. Dolev continued, "We will establish a nuclear free zone in the Middle East ... . I do not know how long it will take, but it will happen."[8]

A 2023 discussion in The Nonproliferation Review of "The evolution and future of Israeli nuclear ambiguity" said, "Although this viewpoint has virtually no support within the security establishment, support is found among Knesset members ..., as well as some senior Israeli academics."[9] The article mentions the work of the Israeli Disarmament Movement and cites a publication by Dolev.[10]

Middle East Treaty Organization

On 8 April 2014, the Italian international press agency Pressenza published an invitation to a Zoom event to discuss, "Beyond war and violence as a way to resolve conflict in the territories of Israel and Palestine". The event was hosted by "Sharon Dolev, Executive Director of both the Israeli Disarmament Movement and the Middle East Treaty Organization". The invitation was, "Open to everyone, [to encourage] perspectives, guided by the Chatham House Rule to ensure meaningful, confidential dialogue.”[11]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Sharon Dolev biography, Wikidata Q125798579
  2. ^ Sharon Dolev – Council Member, International Peace Bureau, Wikidata Q125799712
  3. ^ Dolev (2010).
  4. ^ Shmulovich (2012).
  5. ^ Brenner (2013).
  6. ^ Bob (2016).
  7. ^ Roland (2017).
  8. ^ Marom (2017).
  9. ^ BenLevi (2023).
  10. ^ Dolev (2013a).
  11. ^ Pressenza London (2014).
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