Daniel A. McGowan

Daniel A. McGowan is the executive director of Deir Yassin Remembered, an organization seeking to build a memorial in Deir Yassin, a former Palestinian-Arab village near Jerusalem, to commemorate a massacre there on April 9, 1948, in which 107 villagers were killed by forces from the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary groups.^[1]

McGowan is professor emeritus at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.^[2] He is a columnist for Counterpunch, and the co-author, with Marc H. Ellis, of Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine (1998). He also runs an organization called Righteous Jews, a play on the phrase righteous gentiles, for Jews willing to defend the rights of the Palestinians.

See also

• Deir Yassin massacre

Notes

1. ^ Statement of purpose, Deir Yassin Remembered, accessed June 13, 2009.
2. ^ Faculty and Staff Authors, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

External links

• Deir Yassin Remembered
• Righteous Jews

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