I was curious what I would find in a relatively recent article with the title: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories” written by James A. Piazza of Penn State University. I learned one thing from the article that has nothing to do with the substance of the research itself, namely, the…
What is the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for terrorism? James A. Piazza of Penn State University examined just that in his relatively recent article: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories“. His abstract states that some citizens of Arab countries in general view democracy as an intrusion into their…
What is the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for terrorism? James A. Piazza of Penn State University examined just that in his relatively recent article: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories“. His abstract states that some citizens of Arab countries in general view democracy as an intrusion into their…
What is the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for terrorism? James A. Piazza of Penn State University examined just that in his relatively recent article: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories“. His abstract states that some citizens of Arab countries in general view democracy as an intrusion into their…
“The Invention of Palestine” is a PhD thesis written by former Penn State U student Zachary J. Foster in which he focuses on the creation of the Palestinian identity. Foster has a sense of humour. His unusually lengthy and funny acknowledgements set me up to anticipate reading his thesis with pleasure and making sure I…
Recently, on a friend’s page, an Arab Supremacist Israel hater wrote the following to me: I respect Judaism for what it is, a religion. European Zionism is Colonialist and racist. Arab Jews and Arab Muslims lived in a relatively peaceful state of co-existence until the intrusion of European Zionism. The European Zionists sowed the seeds…
We keep on hearing about the Gaza blockade, about how Israel has put the population of Gaza in an open-air prison and we do not let people out or products in. Well, someone in Israel apparently did not get that memo. Look what was reported in an article posted on 12 December 2019: In the…
We keep on hearing about the Gaza blockade, about how Israel has put the population of Gaza in an open-air prison and we do not let people out or products in. Well, someone in Israel apparently did not get that memo. Look what was reported in an article posted on 12 December 2019: In the…
We keep on hearing about the Gaza blockade, about how Israel has put the population of Gaza in an open-air prison and we do not let people out or products in. Well, someone in Israel apparently did not get that memo. Look what was reported in an article posted on 12 December 2019: In the…
A new announcement on the website of An-Najah National University in Nablus made me aware of something: The university must find itself between a rock and a hard place! I suppose all universities in the Palestinian Authority (PA) find themselves in the same bind: On the one hand, they need to convince the world of…
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