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FOUNDERS

Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan, ChairmanEntrepreneur and Conservationist

Bernard-Henri Lévy, PresidentPhilosopher, Filmmaker and Activist

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Marina AbramovicPerformance artist, Writer and Filmmaker

Elliot AckermanNovelist and journalist

Ron AgamVisual artist

Jane AlexanderActress of Stage and Screen and Wildlife conservationist

Ayaan Hirsi AliHuman rights activist and Founder of the AHA Foundation

Ros Altmann, The Baroness Altmann CBEMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament and Former Minister of State

David Alton, The Lord Alton of LiverpoolMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament

and Member of the International Relations and Defence Committee

Anne ApplebaumColumnist, The Washington Post and Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute – Johns Hopkins University

Hilary Armstrong, The Baroness Armstrong of Hill TopMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament,

Former Minister for the Cabinet Office and for Social Exclusion

Jacques AudibertFormer Diplomatic Advisor to President François Hollande of France

Elisabeth BadinterPhilosopher and writer

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael D. BarberoFormer Deputy Commander of United States Forces–Iraqand Former Commander of NATO Training Mission Iraq

Professor Henri J. BarkeyCohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University

and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

The Honorable Howard L. BermanFormer United States Representative for California and Former

Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs

Paul BermanCritic-at-large of Tablet Magazine and author of Power and the Idealists and other books

Max BootJeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies,

Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post columnist

Geraldine BrooksAuthor and Journalist

Tina BrownFounder and CEO, Tina Brown Live Media and Women in the World

The Honorable Jeb BushFormer Governor of Florida

Véronique CaylaPresident, ARTE France

Ambassador Wendy J. ChamberlinPresident Emeritus, Middle East Institute,

Former Deputy High Commissioner on Refugees, United Nations,and Former United States Ambassador to Pakistan

Glenn CloseActress of Stage and Screen and Wildlife conservationist

Daniel Cohn-BenditFormer Member of the European Parliament

Ray Collins, The Lord Collins of HighburyMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs

and Former General Secretary of The Labour Party

The Honourable Irwin CotlerChair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights,

Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

Olivier CousiLawyer, President of the Paris Bar Association

Lucinda CreightonCEO of Vulcan Consulting, Former Minister of State for European Affairs,

Republic of Ireland

Laurent DassaultCo-Managing Director, Dassault Group

Sir Mick DavisFormer Chief Executive of The Conservative Party

Charles DavidsonPublisher, The American Interest

David N. Dinkins106th Mayor, City of New York

Jovan DivjakFormer Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ambassador Eric EdelmanFormer United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

and Former Ambassador to Turkey

Susan EngelExecutive Producer, 92Y Talks

Delphine ErnotteChief Executive Officer of France Télévisions

Professor Hany FaridData Analysis Specialist and Professor of Electrical Engineering

and Computer Science, University of California – Berkeley

Mia FarrowActor and Activist

Sally FischerPresident and Founder, Sally Fischer Public Relations

Caroline FourestJournalist, writer and director of Sisters in Arms

Abraham FoxmanHead, Center for The Study of Anti-Semitism – Museum of Jewish Heritage

and Director Emeritus, Anti-Defamation League

David GakunziFormer President of the International Martin Luther King

Center in Rwanda and Burundi

Ambassador Peter GalbraithAuthor, academic, policy adviser, former United States Ambassador to Croatia

and former United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Jay GarnerFormer Director of The Office for Reconstructionand Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq (2003)

Jeffrey GedminEditor-in-Chief, The American Interest

Ina Giscard d’EstaingDirector of Special Projects – Department of External Relations, Louvre Museum

Raphaël GlucksmannEssayist and Member of the European Parliament

Adam GopnikWriter and essayist, The New Yorker

Ambassador Jane D. HartleyFormer United States Ambassador to France

Anne HidalgoMayor of Paris

Delphine HorvilleurRabbi and Author

David Howell, The Lord Howell of GuildfordMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Former Minister of State

and Former Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee

Richard HurowitzPublisher, The Octavian Report

Jeremy IronsActor of Stage and Screen

The Honorable Steve IsraelFormer United States Representative for New York

Elfriede JelinekAuthor and Recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

Laurent JoffrinEditor-in-Chief, Libération

Garry KasparovFormer World Chess Champion

and Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation

John Kerr, The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMGMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament, Former Permanent Under Secretary

of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Former Ambassador to the United States

James KirchickAuthor and Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution

The Honorable Mark KirkFormer United States Senator for Illinois

Beate KlarsfeldGerman militant for Justice

Serge KlarsfeldFrench historian and attorney

Bernard KouchnerPhysician and Politician, Co-Founder of Médecins sans Frontières

and Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France

William KristolPolitical Analyst and Commentator

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Sir Graeme LambFormer Director, United Kingdom Special Forces and Commander of the Field Army

The Honorable Mary LandrieuFormer United States Senator for Louisiana

Jack LangPresident, Institut du monde arabe, Former Minister of Culture

and Former Minister of Education of France

Professor James A. LevinsohnDirector, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs – Yale University

Ambassador Jean-David LevitteFormer Ambassador of France to the United States and to the United Nations,

Former Head of the National Security Council

Maurice LévyChairman, Publicis Groupe

Daniel LibeskindFounder and Principal Architect, Studio Libeskind

James LieberFounder, Lieber Strategies

The Honorable Joseph I. LiebermanFormer United States Senator for Connecticut

Guadalupe LoaezaWriter

António Lobo AntunesWriter, Recipient of the 2007 Camões Prize

Bill MaherHost, Producer and Writer of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher

Dr. Michael MakovskyPresident and CEO, Jewish Institute for National Security of America

Fern MallisCreator of New York Fashion Week and Former Executive Director

of the Council of Fashion Designers of America

Abakar MananyChairman, Amjet Executive SA

Kati MartonAuthor and Human Rights Activist

General (Ret.) Stanley A. McChrystalFounder, McChrystal Group and Former Commander,

United States Joint Special Operations Command

The Honorable Claudia A. McMurrayFormer United States Assistant Secretary of State

Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn, The Lord MendelsohnMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament

and Member of the International Relations and Defence Committee

Alain MincEconomist

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Richard F. NatonskiFormer Commander of United States Marine Corps Forces Command

Michael A. NewtonProfessor of the Practice of Law and Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Vanderbilt University,

and Former Senior Advisor to the Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State

Jean NouvelArchitect, Studio Jean Nouvel

Monroe Palmer, The Lord Palmer of Childs Hill OBEMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament and Deputy Speaker

Ruth and Judea PearlCo-founders, Daniel Pearl Foundation

Valérie PécressePresident, Île-de-France Regional Council, Former Minister of Higher Education

and Research and Former Minister of the Budget of France

Marty PeretzPublisher and Former Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic

General (Ret.) David H. PetraeusChairman of the KKR Global Institute, United States Army Commander and Strategist,

Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

David L. PhillipsDirector, Program on Peace-building and Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights– Columbia

University and Former Senior Adviser to the U.S. Department of State

Stuart Polak, The Lord Polak CBEMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament

Arnaud de PuyfontaineChief Executive Officer, Vivendi

The Honorable Bill RichardsonFormer Governor of New Mexico, Former United States Ambassador

to the United Nations and Former Secretary of Energy

Robert RicherFormer Associate Deputy Director of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency

Rob RiemenWriter and Founder and President of The Nexus Institute

Barry RosenFormer Press Attaché, United States Embassy in Iran (held hostage from 1979-1981)

Thane RosenbaumNovelist, Essayist and Law Professor

Isabella RosselliniActress, Filmmaker, Author and Activist

Eric de RothschildChairman, Mémorial de la Shoah

Norman T. RouleFormer National Intelligence Manager for Iran

Olivier RoyantEditor-in-Chief, Paris Match

Paul SalemPresident, The Middle East Institute

Roberto SavianoWriter, Essayist and Screenwriter

Sir Simon SchamaProfessor of Art History and History, Columbia University, Author,

Documentary Filmmaker for the BBC and Contributing Editor to The Financial Times

Dr. Hans-Jakob SchindlerFormer Coordinator and Expert of the ISIL/Al -Qaida/TalibanSanctions Monitoring Team, United Nations Security Council

Dov SeidmanAuthor of How and Founder and Chairman of LRN

Vance SerchukAdjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

The Honorable Radoslaw SikorskiMember of the European Parliament, Chairman of the EU-USA Delegation

and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Mitch SilberFounding Principal of The Guardian Group and Former Director of Intelligence

Analysis at the New York City Police Department

Anne-Marie SlaughterBert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics

and International Affairs, Princeton University

Peter SloterdijkPhilosopher and Author

Timothy Simon Spicer, OBEFormer Lieutenant-Colonel in the United Kingdom Scots Guards

and Founder of Aegis Defense Services

Gloria SteinemWriter and Feminist Activist

Michael SteinhardtChair, The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life and Co-Chair,

The Areivim Philanthropic Group

Bret StephensColumnist, The New York Times and Recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

StingMusician and Activist

Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’AgataFormer Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy and Former Ambassador

to the United States and to the United Nations

Achilles TsaltasPresident, Athens Democracy Forum (in association with The New York Times)

The Right Honourable Tom TugendhatMember of the House of Commons, United Kingdom Parliament

and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Leslie Turnberg, The Lord TurnbergMember of the House of Lords, United Kingdom Parliament

Manuel VallsFormer Prime Minister of France

Mario Vargas LlosaWriter and Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ambassador Mark WallaceChief Executive Officer of UANI and Former United States Ambassador

to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform

Michael WalzerPhilosopher and Professor Emeritus at The Institute for Advanced Study

Bari WeissOpinion Staff Editor and Writer, The New York Times

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.Former Curator, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Professor James E. YoungFounding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide,

and Memory Studies – University of Massachusetts Amherst

Adam ZagajewskiPoet, Novelist and Recipient of the 2004

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Dov ZakheimVice-Chairman, Foreign Policy Research Institute

and Former United States Under Secretary of Defense

On October 30, 2019, Justice for Kurds announced its Advisory Council in The New York Times and told our Kurdish friends: you are not alone.

With this message, we reaffirm our solidarity with the Kurdish people and share that our Advisory Council has multiplied – a testament tothe strong and unwavering support the Kurds enjoy in America and around the world.

In the crucial fight against ISIS, the Kurds lost over 11,000 brave women and men while an additional 34,000 were wounded. Thanks to theirextraordinary courage and sacrifice, American casualties in combat were limited to fewer than a dozen heroic souls.

Today, we give thanks to the Kurds – our valiant, loyal, and true partners.

Today – and tomorrow – we stand with the Kurds.

We Stand with the Kurds.

About Justice for KurdsJustice for Kurds (JFK) is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate and raise public awareness about the Kurdish cause, politics,history, culture and societies in America and abroad. To read our Mission Statement visit www.justiceforkurds.org and to get involved,please contact: Emily Hamilton, JFK’s Executive Director at emily@justiceforkurds.org

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