Ehud "Udi" Adiv (Hebrew: אהוד "אודי" אדיב) (born June 21, 1946) is an Israeli political scientist.
In his youth, he was a left-wing anti-Zionist activist (a member of Ma'avak) who was eventually convicted of treason and membership in a hostile organization,[1] serving over a decade in prison.
Both of his parents were sabras, or native-born Jews in what was then British Mandatory Palestine, and his father was likewise born on Gan Shmuel to one of the founders of the kibbutz.
In the early 1970s, he became involved in militant anti-Zionist activities at conferences of the Israeli socialist organization Matzpen.
Adiv established contact with Syrian intelligence, and met Habib Kawahji, a former Israeli-Arab who had emigrated from Israel after serving prison time for anti-Israeli Arab nationalist activities, and who was believed to be working for Arab intelligence agencies, in Athens.
The Israeli internal security service, Shin Bet, discovered this, and the cell's members, including Adiv, were arrested in December 1972.
Adiv was mentioned by Yasser Arafat in his "Gun and the Olive Branch" speech[6] before the United Nations General Assembly in 1974.
In that speech, Arafat said: "As he stood in an Israeli military court, the Jewish revolutionary, Ehud Adiv, said: 'I am no terrorist; I believe that a democratic State should exist on this land.'