CRS Radio The Black Jewish Queen Live Chat Special Guest Ze'ev Portner

Ze’ev Portner is a Law Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.   He teaches public, employment law and criminal justice. He has also taught at Greenwich University and has given guest lectures to students studying on the international program, the MA in Conflict Resolution at Tel Aviv University. Ze’ev lived in Israel for 5 years and qualified as an Advocate. He has worked on a couple of major international law projects and did his law training in the offices of Gilead Sher and Co. He worked directly for Advocate Gilead Sher, who was Israel’s chief peace negotiator at the Camp David peace talks of 2000. He has also ghost written a speech and an article for a former Labour Member of Knesset and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Hilik Bar. Ze’ev worked for ten years in the British Parliament,  for  former MP, Dame Louise Ellman   during that time he wrote a briefing for Tony Blair when he was Prime Minister, and Jack Straw when he was Foreign Secretary. Ze’ev is a member of the Kick it Out Working Group on Anti-Semitism, helping to establish the Watford FC Jewish Supporters Group he was the brainchild behind the first ever Chanukah Party at a Premier League Club. He has also written for the match day program of Watford football Club about Holocaust Memorial Day. Ze’ev loves history he has lectured about the history of the Jews of Barbados in which he has researched, and about the life and legacy of former British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli.  He  enjoys writing articles and has interviewed the spiritual leader of the Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem,  based in Dimona, Southern Israel, the  late Ben Ammi