19 Facts About Phyllis Bennis

Phyllis Bennis was born on January 19,1951 and is an American Jewish writer, activist, and political commentator.

Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

In 1987, Phyllis Bennis witnessed the First Intifada and began to take a serious interest in pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Phyllis Bennis made three additional trips to the Middle East in 1988 and 1989, and her experiences during this period led to a book, From Stones to Statehood: The Palestinian Uprising, in which she describes the first two years of the Intifada and makes the case for a Palestinian homeland.

In 1999, Phyllis Bennis accompanied a group of congressional aides to Iraq, examining the impact of US-led economic sanctions on humanitarian conditions there.

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, and of its offshoot, the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.

Phyllis Bennis is a founding member of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, which was established in 2002 during the Second Intifada, and currently serves on its steering committee.

Phyllis Bennis is a staunch opponent of what she regards as American imperialism and believes that actions should be taken to counter American and Western global hegemony.

Phyllis Bennis celebrated a Washington, DC, march called "One Nation Working Together," held in 2010 and sponsored by a coalition of organizations including the NAACP, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, the National Council of La Raza, the Center for Community Change, and the US Students Association.

One of Bennis' colleagues Fiona Dove stated in respects to the withdrawn candidacy that "Phyllis Bennis was subject to scurrilous attacks by the Israeli press".

Phyllis Bennis argued in January 2013 that the US could save money by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy, ending subsidies on fossil fuels, and cutting military spending.

Phyllis Bennis cited US National Intelligence Estimates and reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency to argue in February 2013 that concerns about Iran's nuclear capability are outrageously exaggerated and that if "the threat of war still looms" it is not because of actual threat assessments, but because of "belligerent" politicians.

Phyllis Bennis is the author of nine books and the co-editor of two.

Phyllis Bennis is co-editor of Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader and Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order.

Phyllis Bennis has contributed articles to The Nation, the Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, as well as in such publications as Znet, Electronic Intifada, From Occupied Palestine, Counterpunch, Palestine Monitor, and Tom Paine.

Phyllis Bennis has been invited to deliver political commentary on TV and radio in the US and abroad.

Phyllis Bennis was featured in the 2007 award-winning documentary film Occupation 101.

Phyllis Bennis was featured as a speaker at the 2012 New York Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.

Phyllis Bennis spoke at a memorial for Rachel Corrie on the tenth anniversary of her death in 2013.