Lawrence Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Chester University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 48 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Paradigm Lost
Blood in the Water
Triadic Coercion
Institutions Don’t Hug People
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently increased support for inclusion of Veterans and family caregivers as collaborators on the research that affects them. In this article, the authors—two VA investigators, two Veterans, and two caregivers—draw from nearly a decade of participatory action research to highlight the methods we have employed to build and sustain collaboration. These methods include the following: using ethnographic ap…
On the ‘New Anti-Semitism’ and Its Political and Religious Consequences
The so-called ‘new anti-Semitism’ is an artificial construct created by Israel to counter growing popular opposition to its own racist policies. Loss of popular support means Israeli influence has been largely restricted to governing circles vulnerable to Zionist lobby pressure. The appearance of the new anti-Semitism has also created a tragic paradox particularly for Jews who believe in tolerance, diversity and human rights. For, if one accepts …
The Only Language They Understand
Who Rules the World
Who Is Charlie
Who Is Charlie? by Emmanuel Todd. Translated by Andrew Brown. Polity Press, 2015. 220 pages. $19.95, hardcover. Emmanuel Todd is both a historian and a sociologist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies in Paris. Like most French men and women, he was appalled by the bloody events of January 7, 2015. On that day, two heavily armed men walked into the Paris offices of a satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) and murdere…
Islamic Fundamentalism
This review of the evolution of Islamic fundamentalism and Western-Muslim relations—from the events of September 11, 2001, to the present day—offers insight into the movement's historical roots and growing contemporary influence. Given the volatile nature of relations between the Middle East and the Western world, many Westerners, particularly Americans, have a skewed view of what comprises Islamic fundamentalism. Many wonder, are these beliefs b…
Israel, the Palestinians, and the 2012 Republican Primaries
This essay looks at the 2012 Republican primaries through the lens of “localism” and how candidates and lobbies manipulate for their own purposes the ignorance of their voting constituencies on issues not relevant to their everyday lives. After a discussion of the wider process, the piece focuses on the eight leading candidates in the presidential primary race with regard to Israel and Palestine, with an overview of their positions and advisers. …
Cultural genocide
Islamophobia, the Israel Lobby and American Paranoia
The phenomenon of Islamophobia has now surfaced as a factor in American politics. While disturbing and damaging of people's lives and reputations, the phenomenon is not unique. It can be seen as but the latest eruption of paranoid political thinking that periodically arises in American history. In turn, seeing the fate of the nation threatened by conspiracies and anti-American elements is made easier and more destructive by high levels of ignoran…
Christian Zionism and the Formulation of Foreign Policy
The influence of Christian Zionism is a very serious issue for the practice of American diplomacy in the Middle East. This is because, on the one hand, well-reasoned diplomacy is absolutely necessary to peace and security in that vital region. On the other hand, Christian Zionist leaders lobby against negotiation, compromise, and peace. Thus, it can be argued that Christian Zionism stands as the antithesis of diplomacy. The two books under consid…
Truman the Politician and the Establishment of Israel
Harry S. Truman was a temperamental and politically ambitious man. Both his sensitivities and ambition influenced his actions during his presidency. This was particularly the case when it came to Palestine because there existed a strong domestic Zionist lobby that played to Truman's wants and needs in order to influence his decision making. This article examines that process of policy formulation and shows how personality played into the presiden…
Foreign Policy, Inc.
Elected officials, and especially presidential candidates, are increasingly asked to define their relationships to special interest groups. Such special, or private, interests play a disproportionate role in politics and legislation, whether in the form of large commercial or ethnic lobbies or in the shadowy realm of backroom dealmaking. This book argues that widespread public disinterest in global affairs, a prevailing characteristic of American…
Foreign policy, inc
T he A ttack on M iddle E ast S tudies
Origins of an Alliance
Origins of an Alliance." Journal of Palestine Studies, 36(4), pp. 112–113 Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence DavidsonLawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University and author ofAmerica's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (University of Florida Press, 2001)
Privatizing Foreign Policy
R emembering H isham S harabi (1927--2005)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLawrence DavidsonLawrence Davidson, professor of history at West Chester University, is the author of America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (University Press of Florida, 2001)
Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest Destiny
Orwellianism and the Kafkaesque in the Israeli-Palestinian Discourse
Israeli perceptions and Palestinian conditions of life can be understood in terms of the literary worlds created by George Orwell and Franz Kafka. For Israel the relevant literary environment is that of George Orwell's novel 1984. Here Orwell pictures a community psychologically closed in by the twisted use of language and an incapacity for critical self-analysis. In the case of the Palestinians, the relevant literary world is that created in man…
Little
The Past as Prelude
Drawing on State Department records and other contemporary sources, this article shows how biblical romanticism took precedence over traditional democratic values in shaping the U.S. Middle East policy as far back as 1917, when it supported Zionism's aims in Palestine against the wishes of 92 percent of the population. The article also makes clear that a dynamic remarkably similar to later patterns was already in place as of the 1920s: a presiden…
T he S tate D epartment and Z ionism , 1917‐1945
Paradigm Lost
Testing the satisficing version of the political business cycle 1905–1984
Privatizing Foreign Policy
Institutions Don’t Hug People
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently increased support for inclusion of Veterans and family caregivers as collaborators on the research that affects them. In this article, the authors—two VA investigators, two Veterans, and two caregivers—draw from nearly a decade of participatory action research to highlight the methods we have employed to build and sustain collaboration. These methods include the following: using ethnographic ap…
Truman the Politician and the Establishment of Israel
Harry S. Truman was a temperamental and politically ambitious man. Both his sensitivities and ambition influenced his actions during his presidency. This was particularly the case when it came to Palestine because there existed a strong domestic Zionist lobby that played to Truman's wants and needs in order to influence his decision making. This article examines that process of policy formulation and shows how personality played into the presiden…
Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest Destiny
The Only Language They Understand
Israel, the Palestinians, and the 2012 Republican Primaries
This essay looks at the 2012 Republican primaries through the lens of “localism” and how candidates and lobbies manipulate for their own purposes the ignorance of their voting constituencies on issues not relevant to their everyday lives. After a discussion of the wider process, the piece focuses on the eight leading candidates in the presidential primary race with regard to Israel and Palestine, with an overview of their positions and advisers. …
The Past as Prelude
Drawing on State Department records and other contemporary sources, this article shows how biblical romanticism took precedence over traditional democratic values in shaping the U.S. Middle East policy as far back as 1917, when it supported Zionism's aims in Palestine against the wishes of 92 percent of the population. The article also makes clear that a dynamic remarkably similar to later patterns was already in place as of the 1920s: a presiden…
Terrorism in Context
While terrorism is probably as old as human violence itself and has never been very rare, we now seem to approach it as if it were an anomaly of human belligerency-as violence that somehow goes beyond the norms of violence. We have hardly grown more moral as a species: certain types of terror, such as torture and genocide, are more common today than they were in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Labeling one's opponent a terrorist is one wa…
Israeli Reactions to Peace in the Middle East
(1978). Israeli Reactions to Peace in the Middle East. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 34-47
Organized Labour in Four Continents
Israelis at Rest
Israelis at Rest
Western Jewish Youth and the Conflict
Israeli Reactions to Peace in the Middle East
Israeli Reactions to Peace in the Middle East
(1978). Israeli Reactions to Peace in the Middle East. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 34-47
Refugees Old and New
REFUGEES OLD AND NEW: I.F. Stone. Underground To Palestine." Journal of Palestine Studies, 9(1), pp. 132–133
Refugees Old and New
A Discussion of Methods Employed in Analyzing the Impact of Short-Term Entertainment Events
As economists pay increasing attention to short-term entertainment events, it is constructive to evaluate the current methodology employed in studies. This study points out that the basic issue addressed by studies is the difference between what did happen and what might have happened—a difficult subject. Other criticisms are raised concerning definitions employed, the survey technique, the multiplier, and appropriate sampling and statistical tec…
Sympathy for Jewish Statehood
Zionism
James M. Ennes, Jr., The Siege of Jerusalem...and beyond, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, Special Issue: The Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories (Winter, 1985), pp. 163-165
Zionism
Zionism: Riding in on Imperial Coattails: The High Walls of Jerusalem, Ronald Sanders." Journal of Palestine Studies, 14(2), pp. 162–163
Sympathy for Jewish Statehood
Lebanese Political History
Lebanese Political History
Terrorism in Context
Terrorism in Context
While terrorism is probably as old as human violence itself and has never been very rare, we now seem to approach it as if it were an anomaly of human belligerency-as violence that somehow goes beyond the norms of violence. We have hardly grown more moral as a species: certain types of terror, such as torture and genocide, are more common today than they were in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Labeling one's opponent a terrorist is one wa…
Testing the satisficing version of the political business cycle 1905–1984
Historical Ignorance and Popular Perception
Martin Kolinsky, Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928–35, Studies in Military and Strategic History (London
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Biblical Archaeology and the Press
The work of archaeologists in Palestine in the 1920s constituted big news: newspapers such as The New York Times turned the story into one of dramatic proportions. The press created an "archaeological theater." Stories of discovery took on a melodramatic quality that emphasized the universal significance of biblical archaeology. The act of excavation became the confirmation of the truth of the Bible and its world-enveloping vision. How did this "…
C ompeting R esponses to the 1929 A rab U prising in P alestine
David E. Long, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Gainesville
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T he S tate D epartment and Z ionism , 1917‐1945
The Past as Prelude
Drawing on State Department records and other contemporary sources, this article shows how biblical romanticism took precedence over traditional democratic values in shaping the U.S. Middle East policy as far back as 1917, when it supported Zionism's aims in Palestine against the wishes of 92 percent of the population. The article also makes clear that a dynamic remarkably similar to later patterns was already in place as of the 1920s: a presiden…
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