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Today the injustice of the Pollard case is conventional wisdom. New revelations in the case have established the truth unequivocally, just as it was first identified by Appeals Court Judge Stephen Williams more than a decade ago: Jonathan Pollard is the victim of a blatant miscarriage of justice.

And yet, in spite of this, virtually all of the most influential voices in America and Israel remain silent. Even as evidence continues to mount of government misconduct and a shocking violation of Jonathan's due process rights, opinion-makers, journalists and editors maintain a virtual conspiracy of silence.

The American Administration does not take their silence as a sign of neutrality or indifference, but as tacit approval of the grossly disproportionate sentence meted out to Jonathan Pollard. Their silence virtually assures the Government that it can continue to persecute Jonathan Pollard with impunity.

Their stubborn silence is all the more troubling since the Pollard case is not just about one man. It is about equal justice for all Americans, and fair treatment of Israel as an ally. It has implications for Israel and for American minorities - especially the Jewish community, which transcend the fate of one man.

It may be that no single voice can change the course of a travesty of justice in which the Government has held so tight a rein for nearly two decades; but there is little doubt that the collective voice of leading American and Israeli opinion-makers would be impossible to ignore.

In an attempt to penetrate the wall of silence, J4JP is undertaking to publish Pollard's List. This is a compilation of the names of well respected writers, opinion makers and editors who routinely have a great deal to say about Israel and Jewish issues, about justice and fair play - and nothing about Jonathan Pollard. The more prominent names have, as a rule, studiously avoided writing anything at all on the case for the last two decades. A mere handful have written about the case - but that was years ago- and they have been silent ever since.

What do we hope to accomplish by compiling this list?

For nearly two decades, we have been privately reaching out to prominent persons, journalists and opinion-makers, sharing information and new developments, desperately seeking their help. But to no avail. It is our hope that by raising consciousness about this conspiracy of silence and the damage it is doing to Jonathan Pollard and to the Jewish People that they will search their hearts, heed their consciences, and find their voice.

In the year 2004, all of the old excuses for refusal to speak out about the Pollard issue no longer exist. What does exist instead is a wealth of information which shows unequivocally that Jonathan Pollard is serving an unjust and grossly disproportionate sentence; that his sentence was obtained in violation of his constitutional rights; that it was the result of a plea agreement which Jonathan honored and the US government abrogated; that the US Government (which armed Iraq and was furious at Pollard for blowing the whistle) continues to hide its malfeasance behind a veil of secrecy; that the US continues to deny Pollard's security-cleared attorneys access to the classified portions of his record while sharing them freely with those who oppose clemency; and that the US government routinely subverts every effort to get Pollard's case back into court.

The new information also clearly shows:

• how Jonathan has been scapegoated for the crimes of others [See The Truth About Jonathan Pollard by John Loftus]
• how he has been unjustly sentenced and denied due process for the last 19 years [See The Court Case Page]
• how he has been given a politically-driven life sentence, not for the offense he committed but for inadvertently interfering in covert US policy to arm Iraq [See the US-Iraq Complicity Page]; and
• how Caspar Weinberger (whose interference in the case doomed Pollard) recently admitted that the Pollard case, was just a minor issue that got blown up into something much larger than it ever was [See Caspar's Ghost - Weinberger Memo omits key involvement].

These reasons alone should banish any fear of speaking out in support of Jonathan Pollard. Silence in the face of such injustice is tantamount to complicity. Or as Sir Edmund Burke observed: All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to remain silent.

Here is Pollard's list of those who have it in their power to right a grave wrong, if only they have the will... J4JP urges each one to speak out and put an end to the conspiracy of silence that has plagued the Pollard case for nearly two decades.

Pollard's List

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1. A.B. Yehoshua
2. A.M. Rosenthal
3. Aaron Brown
4. Akiva Eldar
5. Alan Colmes
6. Alan Dershowitz
7. Alan Keyes
8. Amiel Ungar
9. Amir Oren
10. Amnon Lord
11. Amos Elon
12. Amos Oz
13. Amos Perlmutter
14. Amotz Asa-El
15. Amram Mitzna
16. Andrea Levin
17. Andrew Ferguson
18. Anne Roiphe
19. Ari L. Goldman
20. Arieh O'Sullivan
21. Arnold Eisen
22. Arnold Rachlis
23. Arthur Green
24. Arthur Waskow
25. Aviezer Ravitsky
26. Avraham Burg
27. Barbara Amiel
28. Barry Rubin
29. Ben Caspit
30. Benjamin Balint
31. Bernard Lewis
32. Binyamin Jolkovsky
33. Blu Greenberg
34. Bobby Brown
35. Bradley Shavit Artson
36. Bret Stephens
37. Brit Hume
38. Bruce Afran
39. Bruce Fein
40. Burt Jacobsen
41. Cal Thomas
42. Chaim Seidler
43. Charles Burak
44. Charles Derber
45. Charles Krauthammer
46. Chemi Shalev
47. Christopher Caldwell
48. Colin Greer
49. Conrad Black
50. Cynthia Ozik
51. Dan Abrams
52. Dan Cohen Sherbok
53. Dan Izenberg
54. Daniel Doron
55. Daniel Landes
56. Daniel Matt
57. Daniel Pipes
58. Daniel Shore
59. David B. Fischer
60. David Biale
61. David Frum
62. David Gelernter
63. David Gordis
64. David Grossman
65. David Horovitz
66. David Klinghoffer
67. David Kretzmer
68. David Liba'i
69. David Remnick
70. David Tell
71. David Twersky
72. Debra Nussbaum Cohen
73. Dennis Prager
74. Don Feder
75. Dore Gold
76. Douglas Feith
77. Dov Hikind
78. Dr. Arnold Soloway
79. Dr. Steven Windmueller
80. Ed Koch
81. Ed MacAteer
82. Edgar Bronfman
83. Edward Alexander
84. Edward J. Epstein
85. Efraim HaLevy
86. Efraim Inbar
87. Ehud Olmert
88. Ehud Yaari
89. Eitan Haber
90. Eli Wohlgelernter
91. Elie Wiesel
92. Eliyakim Rubinstein
93. Elliot Abrams
94. Elliot Dorff
95. Ephraim Margolin
96. Eric Roseman
97. Eric Silver
98. Erik Schechter
99. Evelyn Gordon
100. Faye Kellerman
101. Francine Klagsburn
102. Frank Dimant
103. Frank J. Gaffney
104. Fred Barnes
105. Fuad Ajami
106. Gar Alperovitz
107. Gary Rosen
108. Gary Rosenblatt
109. Gayil Hareven
110. George F. Will
111. George Melloan
112. Gerald Serotta
113. Gerald Steinberg
114. Gershom Gorenberg
115. Gil Troy
116. Gordon Crovitz
117. Gordon Fellman
118. Heather Booth
119. Henry Kissinger
120. Henry Seigman
121. Herman Wouk
122. Hillel Halkin
123. Hillel Kuttler
124. Hirsh Goodman
125. Howard Sachar
126. Howard Schwartz
127. Howard Shapiro
128. Idith Zertal
129. Ilana Pardes
130. Ina Friedman
131. Ira Rifkin
132. Irwin M.Stelzer
133. Isaac Herzog
134. Isi Liebler
135. Itamar Eichner
136. J.J. Goldberg
137. Jack Kemp
138. Jack Wertheimer
139. Jackie Mason
140. James Merritt
141. James Ponet
142. James Woolsey
143. Jay Cantor
144. Jeanne Kirkpatrick
145. Jeff Jacoby
146. Jerome J. Shestack
147. Jerry Falwell
148. Jo Milgrom
149. Joel S. Kaplan
150. John Felstiner
151. John Leo
152. John Podhoretz
153. Jonah Goldberg
154. Jonathan Kellerman
155. Jonathan Rosenblatt
156. Jonathan Tobin
157. Josef Joffe
158. Joseph Epstein
159. Joseph Lieberman
160. Joseph Telushkin
161. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto
162. Judge Jerome Hornblass
163. Judge Ruth Gavison
164. Judith Colp Rubin
165. Judith Gelerenter
166. Judith Plaskow
167. Judy Maltz
168. Juhuda Reinharz
169. Kenneth Timmerman
170. Lally Weymouth
171. Larry King
172. Laura Geller
173. Lawrence Korb
174. Lawrence Kulak
175. Lenny Ben David
176. Leon Wieseltier
177. Leonard Fein
178. Leonard Garment
179. Leslie Epstein
180. Leslie Gelb
181. Leslie Susser
182. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
183. Lily Galili
184. Linda Chavez
185. Louis Rene Beres
186. Malcolm Hoenlein
187. Malvena Halberstam
188. Mark H. Ellis
189. Mark LeVine
190. Mark Steyn
191. Martin Peretz
192. Marvin Kalb
193. Max Boot
194. Micha Odenheimer
195. Michael Bader
196. Michael Bar Zohar
197. Michael Berenbaum
198. Michael Freund
199. Michael Lerner
200. Michael Medved
201. Michael Sandel
202. Michael Tomasky
203. Mitchell G. Bard
204. Mona Charen
205. Morris Amitai
206. Morton B. Zuckerman
207. Morton Klein
208. Morton Kondrake
209. Moshe Arens
210. Moshe Negbi
211. Nachum Barnea
212. Nadav Shragai
213. Naomi Ragen
214. Naomi Wolf
215. Nat Fink Gefen
216. Nat Hentoff
217. Nat Lewin
218. Neal Kodozoy
219. Neal Sher
220. Neil Altman
221. Neil Lochery
222. Netty C. Gross
223. Nina Gilbert
224. Nina Totenberg
225. Noach Dear
226. Noemie Emery
227. Norm Coleman
228. Norman Podhoretz
229. Pat Robertson
230. Paul Alexander
231. Paul Greenberg
232. Paul Johnson
233. Peter Gabriel
234. Rabbi Abraham Cooper
235. Rabbi Abraham Foxman
236. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
237. Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
238. Rabbi Avi Shafran
239. Rabbi Avraham Weiss
240. Rabbi Berl Wein
241. Rabbi Daniel Lapin
242. Rabbi David Hartman
243. Rabbi David Saperstein
244. Rabbi Dr. J. I Shochet
245. Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
246. Rabbi Ezriel Tauber
247. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
248. Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
249. Rabbi Irving 'Yitz' Greenberg
250. Rabbi Ismar Schorsch
251. Rabbi Israel Singer
252. Rabbi Jacob Neusner
253. Rabbi Joe Potasnik
254. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
255. Rabbi Marvin Hier
256. Rabbi Maurice Lamm
257. Rabbi Shalom Gold
258. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
259. Rabbi Shmuel Bloom
260. Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
261. Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinrib
262. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
263. Rachel Adler
264. Rachel Z. Friedman
265. Rael Jeanne Isaac
266. Rafael Medoff
267. Rami Shapiro
268. Raoul Felder
269. Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
270. Reuven Kimelman
271. Richard Chesnoff
272. Richard Cohen
273. Richard Heideman
274. Richard Perle
275. Robert Abrams
276. Robert Bork
277. Robert Kagan
278. Robert Pinsky
279. Ron Silver
280. Ronald Lauder
281. Rudolph Guiliani
282. Ruel Marc Gerecht
283. Ruth Messinger
284. Ruth Wisse
285. Sali Merridor
286. Sarah Honig
287. Saul Friedlander
288. Saul Singer
289. Sean Hannity
290. Seth Liebsohn
291. Seth Lipsky
292. Shabtai Shavit
293. Sheldon Teitelbaum
294. Shimon Apisdorf
295. Shimon Shiffer
296. Shira Bessin Herzog
297. Shlomo Avineri
298. Shmuel Katz
299. Sidra Ezrahi
300. Stanley Sheinbaum
301. Steve Bloomberg
302. Steve Wasserman
303. Steven Plaut
304. Stew Albert
305. Stuart Schoffman
306. Sue Fishkoff
307. Susan Sontag
308. Susannah Heschel
309. Theodore B. Olson
310. Thomas Friedman
311. Tod Lindberg
312. Tom Segev
313. Tom Tugend
314. Tommy Baer
315. Tucker Carlson
316. Tzvi Marx
317. Uri Avnery
318. Uri Simon
319. Uzi Landau
320. Victor David Hanson
321. Vince Beiser
322. Walter Shapiro
323. William J. Bennett
324. William Kristol
325. William Safire
326. William Stevenson
327. Wolf Blitzer
328. Yaacov Ne'eman
329. Yehuda Harel
330. Yigal Schleifer
331. Yoel Marcus
332. Yonah Alexander
333. Yosi Alpher
334. Yossi Klein HaLevi
335. Zalman Schacter-Shalomi
336. Zev Chafetz
     And many, many more.