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Blog6th March 2010Interview with Palestine Center in Washington DCMy interview with Yousef Munayyer, Executive Director of the Palestine Center in Washington DC, is now available to view online. Continue Reading...25th February 2010 Master's Tea at Yale UniversityI am still not entirely sure what a Master's Tea is, but apparently it is some kind of institution at Yale. Continue Reading...25th February 2010 Addition to US Book Tour: Tufts UniversityI shall be speaking at Tufts University on the final day of my book tour on Friday 26th February at Mugar Hall. Continue Reading...15th February 2010 Promotional Flyer offering 45 % Discount on My Book From Coexistence to Conquest AvailableA special discount is available on my book to coincide with my tour of the US. If you download and print out the attached flyer, fill it in and send it to Palgrave MacMillan it will entitle you to a 45 per cent discount reducing the price of my book from $55 to $30. Continue Reading...28th January 2010 Details of my forthcoming book tour in the USAI shall be speaking at a dozen universities in the US in February in Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, Princeton, and New Haven. Continue Reading...24th January 2010 Review of my book in the Middle East JournalSanford R. Silverburg, Professor of Political Science at Catawba College and editor of Palestine and International Law has just reviewed my book for the prestigious Middle East Journal (Vol. 64, Number 1, 2010, pp. 150-152). If you do not subscribe to the journal you can read the full review by clicking on the link below.According to Silverburg I have ‘produced the strongest case for Palestinians in their quest for political recognition that has appeared in recent times', in what is an engaging, if somewhat critical review. I have a few quibbles with parts of the review that I want to clarify and I shall take the occasion of outlining these on my blog. Continue Reading... 8th January 2010 Review of my book in Middle East InternationalChallenging the culture of denialFrom Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949 Victor Kattan Pluto Press, London, 2009, £29.99 ISBN: 9780745325781 A legal historian cannot bring a murder victim back to life, but what they write may have a powerful impact on how attitudes change or unresolved disputes are reassessed. This is particularly so when (as in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute) the issues are emotive and the parties have a desperate need to believe that their positions rest on firm moral foundations. In From Coexistence to Conquest, Victor Kattan takes international law as his standpoint from which to examine the issues of the Palestine problem up to the 1949 armistices and the failure to resolve the dispute at that time. The book includes chapters on the relationship between Zionism, colonialism and anti- Semitism, the scramble for the Ottoman Empire (which Kattan sees as essentially part of the same process as the scramble for Africa) during and after the First World War, the Hussein-McMahon correspondence, Palestinian opposition to political Zionism, the nature of the right to self-determination of the inhabitants of the Palestine Mandate, the partition of Palestine, the refugee question, and the creation of Israel as a sovereign state. He has mined a rich seam of opinions by law officers in London and Washington, legal writings and court and arbitration decisions which political historians would find difficult to assess without a good background in international law. Continue Reading... 31st December 2009 Gaza offensive: Israeli war crimes are in little doubtI have just been cited in an article on last year's war in Gaza by Jonathan Cook who is the foreign correspondent for The National. Continue Reading...25th December 2009 Merry ChristmasI would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and for those who do not celebrate I hope you have a wonderful day in any event. Continue Reading...11th December 2009 My Speech at SOAS Book LaunchYou can read the text of my presentation at the launch of my book at the School of Oriental and African Studies on Wednesday 9 December here. Continue Reading...Find this useful? Send & Share
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