Anat Biletzki

{{Short description|Israeli activist}}

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Anat Biletzki ({{langx|he|ענת בילצקי}}; born 1952) is a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT."[http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-446510/Speakers-at-Capetown-meeting-compare.html Speakers at Cape Town meeting compare situation in occupied territories with South African apartheid; Participants discuss situation in Occupied PalestinianTerritory.]", M2 Presswire, 30 June 2004, retrieved 2011-07-08Fox, Maggie (2010) "[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-retaliation-idUSTRE6935BR20101004 Study shows Israelis and Palestinians both retaliate]", Reuters, 4 October 2010, retrieved 2011-07-08

Biletzki was born in Jerusalem. She was a member of B'tselem,"[http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/article_abf73f65-7f3d-5059-a4f7-09d6e2de850c.html Diplomacy can work, Rice proves]", Lincoln Journal Star, 16 November 2005, retrieved 2011-07-08 an Israeli human rights NGO, acting as chairperson from 2001 to 2006, and has served as a B'tselem Board member since 1995.

Biletzki is a member of the executive board of FFIPP-I (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace International),{{cite web|title=FFIPP International|url=http://www.ffipp.org/ffipp_international|publisher=FFIPP-I|access-date=2013-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123053456/http://www.ffipp.org/ffipp_international|archive-date=2013-01-23|url-status=dead}} which describes itself as "a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, and students, working in solidarity for a complete end of the occupation and just peace."{{cite web|title=Who is FFIPP?|url=http://www.ffipp.org/ffipp_international|publisher=FFIPP-I|access-date=2013-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123053456/http://www.ffipp.org/ffipp_international|archive-date=2013-01-23|url-status=dead}}

Biletzki distinguishes between "Jewish Israel" and Israel as a nation. In a New York Times opinion piece{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/making-it-explicit-in-israel/|title=Making It Explicit in Israel|first=Anat|last=Biletzki|date=May 11, 2015|website=Opinionator}} she writes that "[the 2015 minority government bloc] holds a Jewish, nationalistic agenda," and "norms of exclusive Jewish rights and exclusion of Arab citizens" are inherent to Zionism. She says the same for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assertion that a two-state solution would never be implemented during his tenure and his concern over large numbers of Israeli Arabs going to the voting booths.