Uri Davis

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Uriel "Uri" Davis (born 1943 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli academic and activist with a focus on citizenship, apartheid and democracy in Israel and the Middle East.[1] Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. Davis describes himself as an "anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew." [2]

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[edit] Background and education

He was born to Jewish parents in Jerusalem, and describes himself as a Palestinian Jew. [2] He was educated in Kfar Shmaryahu. During the 1961-1963 period he did alternative civilian service on Kibbutz Erez. Subsequently he received a BA in Philosophy and Arabic from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1968), a Masters in Philosophy from the same institution (1970) and from The New School for Social Research, New York a MA in Anthropology (1973) and a PhD in Anthropology (1976).

[edit] Career

Dr. Uri Davis is an honorary research fellow at the University of Durham's Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IMEIS) and at the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).[1]

Davis currently divides his residence between the predominantly Arab city of Sakhnin in northern Israel and the mixed city of Ramle in central Israel.[1]

[edit] Apartheid Comparisons

Davis is noted [2] for authoring a series of books and articles that classify the State of Israel as an apartheid state and compare Israel's policies in the post-1967 occupied territories with South Africa's bantustanisation apartheid policies: Israel: An Apartheid State (1987), Apartheid Israel: A Critical Reading of the Draft Permanent Agreement, known as the "Geneva Accords" (2003)[3], and Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (2004). (see Israeli apartheid) This comparison is criticised by other anti-zionist academics such as the British scholar Jacqueline Rose.[citation needed]

[edit] Activism

He is also a founding member of the Movement Against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine (MAIAP) and of AL-BEIT: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel.[3]

He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) and of the Editorial Board of RETURN magazine. [2]

Davis is an Observer Member of the Palestine National Council (PNC) and a member of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (FATH). [3]

[edit] Selected Bibliography

  • Dissent & Ideology in Israel: Resistance to the Draft 1948-1973 (as co-editor, with Martin Blatt and Paul Kleinbaum) (1975) ISBN 0-903729-07-5
  • Documents from Israel, 1967-73: Readings for a Critique of Zionism (as co-editor, with Norton Mezvinsky) (1975) ISBN 0-903729-09-1
  • Israel & the Palestinians (as co-editor, with Andrew Mack and Nira Yuval-Davis) (1975) ISBN 0-903729-13-X
  • Israel: Utopia Incorporated - A Study of Class, State and Corporate Kin Control (1977) ISBN 0-905762-12-6
  • Deir al-Asad: The Destiny of an Arab Village in Galilee, in Palestinian Arabs in Israel: Two Case Studies, Ithaca Press, London 1977, (as co-editor, with Hasan Amun, and Nasr Dakhlallah San´allah) ISBN 0-903729-32-6
  • Towards a Socialist Republic of Palestine (as co-editor, with Fouzi el-Asmar and Naim Khader) (1978) ISBN 0-903729-30-X
  • Debate on Palestine (as co-editor, with Fouzi el-Asmar and Naim Khader) (1981) ISBN 0-903729-64-4
  • Israel: An Apartheid State (1987) ISBN 0-86232-317-7
  • The Jewish National Fund (with Walter Lehn) (1988) ISBN 07103-0053-0
  • The State of Palestine (Jerusalem Study Series) (1991) ISBN 0-86372-135-4
  • Crossing the Border: an autobiography of an Anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew (1995) ISBN 1-86102-002-3
  • Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon (London, 1997) ISBN 0-86372-218-0
  • Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications (as co-editor) (Syracuse, New York, 2000) ISBN 0-8156-2829-3
  • Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (2004) ISBN 1-84277-339-9

[edit] External links

[edit] Articles, selected

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c ZMag Bio: Uri Davis, accessed June 12, 2006
  2. ^ a b c d Uri Davis Collection, Archives Hub, accessed June 12, 2006
  3. ^ a b c Uri Davis bio on OneDemocraticState.org
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