Ronit Lentin

Ronit Lentin was born in 1944 in Haifa

Ronit Lentin was born Ronit Salzberger in Haifa in 1944, to a family from Romania. Most of her mother's family died in the Holocaust. She grew up in Israel.

She was exempted from IDF service for medical reasons. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but did not finish a degree. She says she became anti-Zionist soon after the Six-Day War, when she began to follow the group Matzpen.

In 1968 she worked as a production assistant at Israel Television, where she met Irish director Louis Lentin, whom she married. In 1969 she moved to Dublin and has lived in Ireland since. She also translated books from English to Hebrew and wrote fiction, radio plays and stage plays.

At Trinity College Dublin she directed a graduate program in race, ethnicity and conflict from 1997 to 2012 and headed the sociology department. Her research covers racism and immigration in Ireland, Israel and Palestine, gender, genocide and the Holocaust. She retired in 2014.

She supports an open-door immigration policy for Ireland and opposes deportations. She is an activist for the Palestinian right of return and supports a one-state solution.