[E-rundbrief] Info 1491 - Olof-Palme-Preis 2015

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1491 - Olof Palmes minnesfond (S): Olof-Palme-Preis 
2015 for Gideon Levy (Israel) and Mitri Raheb (Palestine).

Bad Ischl, 7.1.2016

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Olof-Palme-Preis 2015 - Gideon Levy and Mitri Raheb

2016-01-07

http://www.palmefonden.se/2015-gideon-levy-and-mitri-raheb/

The 2015 Olof Palme Prize is awarded to the Palestinian pastor Mitri 
Raheb, and the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy , for their courageous 
and indefatigable fight against occupation and violence, and for a 
future Middle East characterized by peaceful coexistence and equality 
for all. By their work they both give a ray of hope to a conflict that 
has plagued and continues to plague millions of people and to endanger 
world peace.

As preacher and pastor in the Lutheran church, Mitri Raheb sends a 
clear message to the young generation of Palestinians: ”We want you to 
live, not die, for Palestine.” In a Bethlehem confined on three sides 
by the walls of the occupying Israeli power, and with Dar al-Kalima 
University College of Arts and Culture that he founded and his 
innovative artistic education in film, art, and drama, Raheb has made 
it possible for young people to investigate their Palestinian 
identity, to nurture beauty, and to invest in a culture of life as 
tools for a creative resistance against suffocating confinement and 
nation building.

Gideon Levy is working for peace and reconciliation by means of a 
passionate search for truth and a fearless faith in the victory of 
reason in a region infested by prejudice and violence, propaganda and 
disinformation. With parents who were forced to emigrate from 
Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and as a true patriot, he has made 
reconciliation with the Palestinian people the mission of his life.

Olof Palmes minnesfond
Box 836, 101 36 Stockholm, T. 08 677 57 90
http://www.palmefonden.se/2015-gideon-levy-and-mitri-raheb/


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Ausgezeichnet mit dem (österr.) "Journalismus-Preis von unten 2010"

Honoured by the (Austrian) "Journalism-Award from below 2010"