John Rose is a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party and a long standing campaigning activist for the liberation of Palestine. He was one of the co-organisers of the recent highly successful BDS, Boycott Sanctions Disinvestment public meetings tour in December with speakers from PACBI, the Palestine boycott movement, ANC, the  South African anti-apartheid liberation movement and COSATU the black trade union, and the newly independent Egyptian trade union and strike movement.

A Jewish student during the radical upheavals at the London School of Economics in the late 1960s, the 1967 Israel-Arab War marked a turning point when he realised that Zionism was not compatible with a socialist and internationalist outlook.

He is the author of The Myths of Zionism (Pluto 2004) and he is also responsible for the first-time publication in the UK of The Ghetto Fights, the personal memoir of Marek Edelman, the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto resistance leader.