Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man is an analyst and researcher based in Washington, D.C., a former editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine and the author of “From Apartheid to Democracy.” He is currently Director for Israel-Palestine at DAWN, a U.S. nongovernmental organization that promotes democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Remembering ‘Never Again for Everyone’ at Bergen-Belsen
In April 2025, the author accompanied his mother, a child survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to a memorial ceremony marking 80 years since the camp’s liberation. At the time, famine was raging in Gaza. As a pro-Palestinian activist and Israeli citizen, the author was filled with complex emotions.