Current Events From Academia For award-winning geographer, ancient Israel doesn’t count November 24, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments According to National Geography’s education blog, Matt Rosenberg is an expert: Matt is an award-winning professional geographer who has covered the field of geography … for more than a decade.…
Current Events From Academia Shoshana Netanyahu on the judicial revolution September 17, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Jordan Shows How to make a Nation from Bedouin Tribes July 10, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Sinokrot: Academic Report on Successful PA Company June 30, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia The Occupation, Coronavirus and Palestinian Mental Health March 30, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Academia Website Hosts Anti-Israeli Israeli Writer — And Then It Doesn’t February 18, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Itamar Taxel: Combatting Accusations of Israeli Colonialism November 30, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Legitimate Literary Criticism or Propaganda? November 19, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Historic Palestine: What you need to know! November 9, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events From Academia Ibrahim Saïd: Getting it right when trying to wrong Israel November 3, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments I find it amusing when an article, such as that by Ibrahim Saïd, sets out to bash Israel but then explains Israel quite well and shows that the author understands…