Seth Morrison: From the Jewish National Fund to Jewish Voice for Peace and BDS.

The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.

 

Seth Morrison has held leadership posts in various local, regional and national Jewish organizations, starting in college as a youth leader in Young Judea. He is currently active in Jewish Voice for Peace, serving on the DC Metro Chapter Steering Committee and on the national Congressional Outreach Committee.

In 2011, Morrison resigned from the Washington, DC Board of the Jewish National Fund in protest over Israel’s repeated evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.

He chaired the Washington, DC Metro Chapter of J Street in 2013 before becoming active in the BDS movement. His op-eds supporting Palestinian and Bedouin rights have been published in The Forward, The Jerusalem Post and +972 Magazine.

Professionally, Morrison is a consultant specializing in marketing and strategic planning for both for- and non-profit organizations. Previously he was the SVP & General Manager of CTAM, a trade association serving the cable television industry. As a marketer, Morrison has been responsible for major local and national marketing, PR and social media campaigns for the cable television industry and non-profit organizations.

Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe.

 

The conference is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).