AlJazeera.Net (Qatar) : "Israeli elected to Fatah council"

Israeli elected to Fatah council

Davis won 31st place among the 80 elected
seats on Fatah's Revolutionary Council [AFP]

The Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has elected an Israeli Jew to one of its governing bodies for the first time in the movement's half-century history.

Uri Davis, a sociology professor at the Palestinian Al-Quds University on the edge of Arab east Jerusalem, was elected to the movement's Revolutionary Council, official results released on Saturday showed.

Author of the books Israel: An Apartheid State, published in 1987 and Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within, published in 2004, Davis prefers to identify himself as a Palestinian Jew.

"I hold Israeli and British passports but I consider myself Palestinian above all else," Davis told Fatah delegates at the  party's first congress on Palestinian soil and its first since the launch of the Middle East process in 1991.

The academic said he wanted to represent within Fatah's 120-member Revolutionary Council the "hundreds of non-Arab sympathisers............
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