Shoshana Netanyahu on the judicial revolution
Shoshana Netanyahu was a Supreme Court (SC) judge between 1981and 1993. Her parting gift to the nation upon retirement was an article called “The Supreme Court of Israel: A Safeguard of the Rule of...
Category: From Academia
Academic studies from various disciplines tackle issues related to Israel. I will critically and fairly examine published articles that find their way to my screen.
Jordan Shows How to make a Nation from Bedouin Tribes
and what to do when threatened by a large “other” within. Zaina Siyam wrote her masters thesis for the Departmen of Law at the American University of Cairo, entitled, “Legal Construction of Nationalism and...
Sinokrot: Academic Report on Successful PA Company
Sinokrot Holdings is a very successful family business in the Palestinian Authority (PA). A case study examining the reasons for its success was published in the first volume of a new economics and accounting...
The Occupation, Coronavirus and Palestinian Mental Health
Because of Corona lockdowns, now everyone around the world knows what it is like to be under Israeli “occupation”, say the authors of a recent article published in The International Journal of Human Rights...
Academia Website Hosts Anti-Israeli Israeli Writer — And Then It Doesn’t
While ex-Israeli Avigail Abarbanel and her ilk do merit academic study as part of an examination of what turns people against their own, this article is not about her. It is about her nearly...
Itamar Taxel: Combatting Accusations of Israeli Colonialism
It pays to be knowledgeable about the Arab Conquest of the Levant when engaging Jew-haters who call us colonialists. We can learn some interesting aspects of the impact of the Conquest on the contemporary...
Legitimate Literary Criticism or Propaganda?
Creative writers’ writing is always autobiographic to some extent, sometimes more openly so. The three pieces reviewed in a recent academic article all describe the writers’ personal experiences of being detained at Ben Gurion...
Historic Palestine: What you need to know!
I recently critiqued an article that used the term “historic Palestine” nine times in 21 pages without offering a definition even once. It is taken for granted that the reader would know what this...
