- Julie Iny
Julie Iny is an American Cornerstone Award-winning [ [http://jspot.org/?p=1332 jspot » Blog Archive » Julie Iny: Cornerstone Award Winner ] ] activist and author of [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580050956 The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage] , she is committed to ending oppression, racism, and antisemitism, and the leader at the organization "Oakland Kids First". She was born to an
Ashkenazi mother andMizrachi father, who originated fromBasra ,Iraq . [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/21585/edition_id/439/format/html/displaystory.html]Julie opposes the war in
Iraq and has demonstrated so with banner reading, "Iraqi lives are precious". She also commented, that the war is "really inflicting terror on people who were already suffering". [ [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20012/edition_id/408/format/html/displaystory.html j. - Local Iraqi Jews back the war - with resignation ] ]She currently resides in
Oakland .Bibliography
* "The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage"
References
External links
* [http://www.kidsfirstoakland.org/about/index.html Official "Kids First" Site]
* [http://www.youngjewishandleft.org/trailer.html Clip about antisemitism from Young, Jewish, and Left with Julie Iny]
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