"Barbara will be remembered as a person who never saw an injustice she didn't try to right, never saw somebody's pain that she didn't try to ease and never turned away when something was in her way that could have made somebody's life better, her husband, Howard Levine, said."
"She started an organization at a time when it was very hard in the United States to do work for Palestine, to be in solidarity, Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, MECA's executive director, said. For us as Palestinians, in that period, to have an ally in the U.S. supporting local initiatives was huge."
Barbara Lubin was a Bay Area activist who died Dec. 13 in Berkeley at age 84. Lubin worked for more than half a century on disability rights, international peace and Palestinian human rights. Lubin co-founded the Middle East Children's Alliance in 1988 and helped deliver millions of dollars in aid while supporting hundreds of community projects for children in the occupied Palestinian territories, Iraq and Lebanon. Lubin spoke often about her Jewish identity and worked to bridge national, ethnic and religious boundaries. Lubin is survived by her husband, four children and seven grandchildren. She became an anti-Vietnam War activist in the late 1960s.
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