Cathy Peters

Cathy Peters is a former Greens councillor and the co-founder of BDS Australia. She worked as a radio producer and executive producer for the ABC for thirty years making some documentaries on the Israeli occupation. She is Jewish and her grandparents and other relatives perished in the holocaust. She has travelled to Gaza and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories on a number of occasions and is a long-time advocate for Palestinian rights and justice.