Lawrence Davidson

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Biography

Dr. Davidson has done extensive research and published in the areas of American perceptions of the Middle East, and Islamic Fundamentalism. His two latest publications are Islamic Fundamentalism (Greenwood Press, 1998) and America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (University Press of Florida, 2001). He has published thirteen articles on various aspects of American perceptions of the Middle East. Dr. Davidson holds a BA from Rutgers, an MA from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Alberta.

Editorial

Date	Title
08/11/2017 13:02:08	Education and Ideology
07/28/2017 16:40:42	BDS, Human Rights and the Jews
07/15/2017 11:20:27	A Culture War Against Tolerance
06/22/2017 12:32:02	Our Hidden Cultural Corrupters
06/09/2017 12:50:06	Jeremy Corbyn Tries the Truth
05/28/2017 09:45:09	Reality and its Enemies
05/14/2017 13:18:04	Donald Trump’s Behavioral Legacy
05/03/2017 14:04:35	Politicizing Anti-Semitism
04/25/2017 11:15:56	A Dilemma For the Intelligence Agencies
03/23/2017 11:08:58	Moral Failure at the United Nations
03/14/2017 12:14:24	One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration
03/06/2017 11:02:56	Trump and the Anti-Semites
02/26/2017 12:00:03	Trump vs. Truth
02/15/2017 13:32:49	Dysfunction in the White House
02/02/2017 11:07:17	Immigrant Irony
01/24/2017 13:42:00	American Zionists and the Issue of Immigrants
01/15/2017 12:23:20	A Future For The Democratic Party?
01/02/2017 14:49:35	Israel- Running from the Law
12/23/2016 11:24:19	How to Destroy the Planet
12/13/2016 12:44:00	Racist Nationalism Returns to the Western Political Scene
11/28/2016 11:53:03	Trump and the Jews
11/19/2016 14:17:06	Fear and Ignorance in the Rise of Donald Trump
11/10/2016 14:44:58	Donald Trump’s Moment: Will It Last?
10/28/2016 13:42:48	Customizing Truth
10/20/2016 09:35:08	How Original Is Donald Trump?
10/10/2016 10:45:58	Natural Born Killers?
09/26/2016 09:49:38	True Believers and the U.S. Election
09/16/2016 16:25:46	There Is Nothing Unusual About Ignorance
09/07/2016 12:03:28	Moral Idiocy in the Halls of Power
08/25/2016 15:41:00	The New Anti-Semitism and its Background
08/16/2016 10:07:56	The West’s Favored Autocrats
08/04/2016 10:01:42	The Saudi Role on September 11
06/27/2016 16:51:51	Paul Ryan’s Economic Plan
06/20/2016 09:20:05	Getting It Wrong about the Orlando Massacre
06/10/2016 10:39:48	Two 'Presumptive' Presidential Candidates: Bigots All Around
05/31/2016 10:28:21	The Opportunist and the Fanatics
05/20/2016 10:37:04	Zionism Begins to Unravel
05/09/2016 09:33:18	On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism
05/02/2016 09:45:11	Getting Rid of Bad Examples
04/21/2016 09:27:38	Netanyahu’s Mind
04/10/2016 10:21:43	The Civil War Returns to New Orleans
03/30/2016 13:40:46	What motivates US policy toward Israel?
03/10/2016 13:00:48	What the Trump Phenomenon Means for Israel
02/29/2016 13:03:59	Cruelty as a Campaign Come-On
02/17/2016 11:42:36	Combating BDS Act of 2016
02/07/2016 12:45:57	Charles Krauthammer: America’s Conservative Voice
01/30/2016 08:34:12	On the Down Side of Institutionalized Religion
01/08/2016 15:36:53	BDS in the Crosshairs
12/29/2015 14:17:32	Global Warming Redux: Another Ticking Bomb Out of Paris
12/18/2015 14:50:26	Converging Fears
12/08/2015 17:09:21	Terrorism and Some Hard Truths
11/29/2015 13:59:42	Who is Right in Syria?
11/18/2015 13:57:31	Israel Divides the Jews
11/10/2015 16:19:10	The Progressive’s Dilemma
10/30/2015 13:29:46	Culture and Conflict Resolution
10/23/2015 14:47:32	The Ideologue’s Tunnel Vision
10/15/2015 11:26:39	Gun Cultures
10/06/2015 12:15:06	On the Age-Old Tradition of Not Caring
09/24/2015 13:03:55	The Decline of the Western Ethnic State
09/14/2015 13:49:30	Who Is Fighting the War on Terror?
09/06/2015 14:21:14	Communal Upheaval
08/24/2015 12:19:12	The Iran Agreement and Israel’s Claim
08/09/2015 12:19:44	A Far Flung Fight for Justice in Palestine
07/31/2015 08:47:40	On the Dangerous Aspects of Noise
07/01/2015 13:41:25	On Flags and Cultural Cures
06/20/2015 12:47:19	Divine Time Import
06/09/2015 12:00:55	Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project
05/30/2015 14:28:13	Does Egypt have a Government?
05/23/2015 13:16:25	International Law and Crimes against Humanity
05/08/2015 13:16:40	On the Perennial Nature of U.S. Urban Riots
04/30/2015 18:04:15	Changing Alliances and the National Interest in the Middle East
04/25/2015 10:31:58	Censorship at Southampton University
04/16/2015 09:01:01	Islamophobia on Wheels
04/07/2015 09:26:27	The U.S. and Israel: Diverging Interests
03/30/2015 09:58:22	John Bolton’s Love of Bombs
03/22/2015 13:32:14	Israel Goes to the Polls
03/11/2015 13:47:11	Getting Past the Issue of Being Jewish
03/05/2015 14:41:05	Benjamin Netanyahu’s Ideologically Dictated Worldview
02/25/2015 17:07:12	Palestine at the International Criminal Court: Potential and Problems
02/15/2015 15:02:31	Why We Need the International Criminal Court
02/03/2015 12:23:45	The Boehner-Netanyahu Cabal
01/26/2015 13:17:20	Global Warming: Reality vs Republican Theology
01/17/2015 16:01:31	Terror in Paris
01/10/2015 13:54:29	Israel’s March 2015 Elections
12/27/2014 14:30:23	Predictions Based on the 2015 Federal Budget
12/18/2014 14:43:34	The Forgotten Futility of Torture
12/11/2014 14:00:53	Free Choice vs. Media Determinism
12/01/2014 13:04:21	Attack on Academic Freedom Redux
11/15/2014 14:35:34	A Sober Look at U.S. Democracy
11/06/2014 13:09:18	The Peace Process Hustle
10/27/2014 11:14:39	The Special Interest Problem
10/16/2014 11:00:10	On The Purpose of U.S. Education
10/06/2014 11:59:28	The Question of State Legitimacy
09/12/2014 18:49:30	International Law vs U.S. Democratic Practice
09/01/2014 12:46:02	'But is it Good for the Jews?'
08/18/2014 18:14:15	The Liberal Zionist Dilemma
08/05/2014 12:52:19	Israel and the Erosion of International Humanitarian Law
07/27/2014 12:31:12	Deconstructing the Zionist View of Gaza’s Horror
07/16/2014 14:00:55	Why the Israelis Are Repetitively Violent
07/10/2014 11:48:39	Justice Corrupted
06/28/2014 15:21:31	Why It Is Hard to Feel for Israel
06/19/2014 12:17:14	The Mess in Iraq
06/02/2014 12:24:54	Class Segregation and the Housing Market
05/21/2014 11:46:07	The Role of the Intellectual
04/27/2014 13:34:04	NY Times Declares the Peace Process Futile
04/15/2014 10:34:10	Free Speech Or Bribery?
04/03/2014 11:17:06	Mr. Rosenberg’s Conundrum
03/25/2014 11:29:32	Saudi Arabia Flexes It’s Fanaticism
03/06/2014 13:31:34	Disturbing Democracy
02/23/2014 18:01:13	Planning for the Future of the BDS Movement
02/13/2014 11:33:22	Stereotyping In Congress, Then and Now
02/04/2014 11:37:35	Is Iran the Real Problem?
01/03/2014 13:38:15	Egypt Gone Bad
12/10/2013 13:03:56	Israel: Legitimacy and Behavior
12/01/2013 11:42:14	A Victory for Diplomacy
11/22/2013 12:27:06	More on Global Warming
11/01/2013 12:34:44	The Mind of the Poor
10/19/2013 12:11:35	Ideological Disaster
10/14/2013 13:33:28	Still Staying Sober
10/05/2013 13:20:10	Zionism versus Diplomacy and Peace
09/21/2013 17:54:47	Two-State Solution or Illusion?
09/12/2013 08:47:21	Crises Today, Catastrophe Tomorrow
09/03/2013 09:16:49	US Congress and the Imperial Presidency Debate Syria
08/28/2013 09:13:31	In Syria, Weapons of Mass Destruction Redux
08/24/2013 14:28:08	Taking Sides In Egypt
08/16/2013 09:16:58	Bad Precedent and Bad Faith
08/05/2013 13:47:21	What National Interest?
07/28/2013 11:14:48	The Boycott of Israel Eight Years In
07/21/2013 11:55:43	On the Death of Helen Thomas
07/15/2013 18:58:11	A National Debate about Government Spying?
07/07/2013 07:42:02	Egypt’s All-Or-Nothing Politics
06/29/2013 11:29:55	The Crime of Indifference
06/27/2013 12:12:13	Why to Boycott Israel
06/17/2013 09:55:32	Perspectives on the Surveillance Scandal
05/30/2013 10:13:12	Endless War
05/17/2013 13:10:06	Alan Hart and What It Takes to Struggle On
05/05/2013 17:34:17	In Praise of Richard Falk
04/22/2013 15:58:00	Freedom and High Anxiety in the USA
04/13/2013 07:46:11	In Defense of Amira Hass
04/05/2013 10:59:26	Critical Thinking Gone Missing
03/25/2013 09:54:30	The Holy Land Gets Skunked
03/14/2013 16:32:18	The Wrath of the Bureaucracy
03/04/2013 16:29:34	Civil Rights Takes a Hit
02/25/2013 08:36:23	On Great Photographs and Their Impact
02/17/2013 06:51:45	War and Institutionalizing Abuse
01/26/2013 09:32:27	Rights Erosion
01/13/2013 09:11:55	Does Torture Work? Does It Matter?
01/04/2013 08:00:59	Haneen Zoabi: Another Persecuted Truth-Teller
12/26/2012 07:59:52	On The Killing of Children and Others, Domestic and Foreign
11/18/2012 18:40:57	A Zionist Worldview and the Slaughter in Gaza
11/11/2012 08:47:10	On the Reelection of the President
11/03/2012 20:00:46	In Defense of Richard Falk
10/27/2012 09:31:07	More On Savage Israel
10/17/2012 09:01:45	Billboard Wars
10/10/2012 18:09:13	The Liar’s Master Class
10/05/2012 07:08:31	On the Status of Women
09/25/2012 13:44:19	Red Lines and Presidential Politics
09/17/2012 13:30:54	Free Speech or Inciting to Riot?
09/04/2012 10:40:50	Israel Says: Rachel Made Us Do It
08/27/2012 11:31:05	Domestic Terrorism American Style
08/19/2012 12:54:56	On the Road to Ryan and Ruin
08/11/2012 11:30:25	The Know-Nothing Candidate
08/02/2012 16:27:22	History on a Billboard
07/22/2012 16:54:48	An American Motto: Free, Armed and Stupid
07/06/2012 10:30:22	The US Voting Dilemma
06/25/2012 11:38:56	Hero On The Run
06/18/2012 13:10:09	The State Department Goes Bad
06/09/2012 08:38:31	Poisoning Public Discourse
05/21/2012 18:21:20	Staying Sober
05/15/2012 08:07:57	The Zionist Scenario: Now And In The Future
04/22/2012 13:05:25	Liberals and Their Situational Ethics
04/16/2012 11:25:45	Intolerance in The Sunshine State
04/08/2012 08:25:59	Delusional Milestone
03/30/2012 18:21:46	Thomas Friedman’s 'Festival of Lies'
03/24/2012 08:56:39	Who is Normal?
03/14/2012 12:37:59	David Remnick’s Lament For Israel
03/09/2012 11:44:59	America Gone Stupid Over Iran
03/01/2012 14:22:46	On The Claim of Exceptionalism
02/20/2012 10:54:35	Reality and the Senate Intelligence Committee
02/05/2012 10:39:37	Two Front International Struggle For Palestine
01/29/2012 10:26:37	Democratic Elections in the Middle East: Why the Islamists Win
01/07/2012 11:32:03	Victimizing Iran
12/30/2011 11:40:20	An 'Historic Partnership' With The Devil
12/22/2011 18:56:03	The Homeland Battlefield
12/10/2011 11:17:46	So What Shall We Ruin in November 2012?
12/03/2011 11:18:06	The Whistle Blower as Hero
11/23/2011 10:10:39	Capitalism and the Spy Market
11/19/2011 12:20:19	Israeli Democracy Fades To Black
11/10/2011 10:26:11	Will There Be More 9/11s?
11/01/2011 11:03:26	Condoleezza Rice Talks Values
10/25/2011 11:14:51	Israel: Twenty Years and Counting
10/08/2011 10:57:02	Israel and Those 'Real Democratic Rights'
10/02/2011 10:40:11	Modern Barbarism
09/26/2011 15:32:35	President Obama’s UN Speech and its Critics
09/22/2011 17:56:09	Goodbye to International Law
09/15/2011 11:04:11	Ignorance and 9/11
09/10/2011 09:31:53	One-Eyed Men In The World Of The Blind
09/03/2011 08:47:42	Turkey Does the Right Thing
08/29/2011 18:02:23	The FBI Goes Rogue
08/25/2011 08:52:49	Murky Anti-Semitism (Zionist Style)
08/19/2011 10:16:37	Myopic Extremists Take the Lead
08/13/2011 09:00:28	Education and Behavior In Israel and Palestine
08/08/2011 12:36:26	Cultivating Violence
08/01/2011 13:20:14	The Palestinian Bid for UN Statehood Recognition
07/29/2011 21:39:57	Israel And The American Jewish Voter
07/26/2011 17:56:17	Death and Contradiction
07/17/2011 09:13:00	Facing the World and Facing Ourselves
07/13/2011 18:35:32	Will the U.S. Really Leave Iraq?
07/07/2011 09:21:46	On Flotillas and the Law
06/25/2011 07:45:31	A 'Responsible End' in Afghanistan?
06/20/2011 10:21:54	The Saudi Arabian Moment
06/15/2011 09:46:04	Reasonable Conjecture on Israel’s Changing Demographics
06/10/2011 08:51:29	Iran and the Issue of Nuclear Weapons
06/04/2011 09:28:33	International Law and the Problem of Enforcement
05/29/2011 09:26:41	Donor Bread (Money) and Congressional Circuses
05/23/2011 10:17:31	The President Goes AIPACing
05/21/2011 08:28:06	President Obama’s Middle East Speech
05/19/2011 14:16:44	Criminal Criminology
05/11/2011 08:09:07	Fascism in the Gulf
05/07/2011 16:54:17	Egypt and the US: Considering the What and the Why of Things
04/23/2011 08:24:18	Lobbification Part II
04/16/2011 09:00:26	Lobby, Lobbification, Lobbified
04/11/2011 13:55:29	The Ghost of Joe McCarthy Walks the Land
04/04/2011 10:55:46	Judge Goldstone Alters His Verdict
04/01/2011 08:39:16	Libya Rhetoric
03/26/2011 08:36:15	Who is Embarrassing the United Nations?
03/19/2011 08:53:18	Washington and the Civilians of Libya
03/09/2011 10:22:34	The Grievous Return of Henry Kissinger
03/05/2011 09:51:29	Criminalizing the Truth Tellers
02/26/2011 10:52:23	How the U.S. Radicalized Conservatism
02/16/2011 09:48:03	New Truths For Those With Eyes To See
02/12/2011 10:41:19	Universal Jurisdiction: a Major Tool for Justice
02/06/2011 09:24:24	Egypt: The Groupthink Problem
02/03/2011 10:37:04	Israel Sides With Its Loyal Ally in Cairo
01/31/2011 14:25:02	Tunisia and Egypt: Why Now?
01/26/2011 11:49:24	The Stuttgart Declaration For a One State Solution in Palestine
01/21/2011 16:32:00	Why We Fail
01/16/2011 09:05:54	Israel’s Right Wing Future
01/10/2011 11:46:29	The Radicals In Congress
01/04/2011 19:30:21	In the Land of Double Standards
01/01/2011 12:21:51	Spokespersons and Their Causes
12/26/2010 12:32:34	The National Image and its Contradictions
12/22/2010 09:55:57	Ishmael Reed Tells Progressives To Back Off Obama
12/18/2010 11:06:10	Who is the Real Barack Obama?
12/14/2010 09:26:10	Israeli Rabbis and the Issue of Real Estate
12/11/2010 09:56:43	Your Reality or Mine?
12/04/2010 10:00:53	On the Historical Necessity of Wikileaks
11/28/2010 09:01:03	On Reality and its Alternates
11/22/2010 13:02:57	Obama Plays the Fox
11/17/2010 17:28:00	Eric Cantor and the Provoking of American Antisemitism
11/12/2010 14:22:46	Palestine and the Fate of the United Nations
11/05/2010 12:05:06	The November 2010 Elections
10/26/2010 08:52:43	John Ashcroft’s Immunity And the US Legal System
10/21/2010 08:57:46	Ambassador Oren’s Invisible Israel
10/01/2010 09:46:07	Overcoming AIPAC Is Not Enough
09/26/2010 07:45:15	American Universities Say Yes to Apartheid
09/22/2010 17:27:50	Iran’s President (Tries to) Speak Out
09/11/2010 19:38:10	Does International Law Have a Future?
09/08/2010 10:41:34	The Boycott of Israel is 'Gaining Speed'
09/01/2010 11:12:10	Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Ahmadinejad
08/29/2010 10:04:16	Yale University and the Problem of Anti-Semitism
08/26/2010 16:34:39	Victory in Iraq??
08/24/2010 15:34:05	Netanyahu & Abbas: What are the Possibilities?
08/20/2010 10:29:06	A Case of Decency Deficit
08/17/2010 08:36:59	Feeding At The Pentagon Trough
08/14/2010 07:50:21	All Is Not Quiet on the Lebanese Front
08/11/2010 14:31:56	Omar Khadr, Bradley Manning and Our National Psyche
08/04/2010 09:34:28	Israel’s Teenage Barbarians at al-Arakib
07/31/2010 08:13:47	Israel Classifies its Past Top Secret
07/27/2010 07:44:56	Wikileaks Reveals the Enemy...and it’s Us
07/21/2010 08:19:04	Free Speech Takes a Hit...From Washington
07/18/2010 08:44:15	Are We Replaying Iraq.....In Iran?
07/11/2010 08:23:25	The Presbyterian Church and Israel
07/09/2010 11:12:31	Right Wing Thought Police
07/08/2010 08:23:24	Those Fraudulent Zionist Charities
07/03/2010 08:29:45	John Mearsheimer’s Sinking Ship
06/28/2010 14:13:37	The United States Tries to Bully Turkey
06/26/2010 08:29:22	Spotlight on Israeli Textbooks
06/23/2010 19:45:08	Newt Gingrich Calls Obama a 'Socialist'
06/21/2010 11:32:02	Israel’s Naval Inquiry into the Mavi Marmara
06/17/2010 14:47:59	US Zionists Attack Gaza Flotilla Participants and Turkey
06/12/2010 10:53:34	On President Obama’s Concept of 'Looking Forward'
06/09/2010 08:44:25	Gaza and American Popular Opinion

Analysis

Date	Title
12/06/2016 11:06:18	U.S. Reactions to the Death of Fidel Castro
07/31/2016 11:52:20	Zionism Goes from Bad to Worse, Taking Judaism with It
08/15/2015 12:15:36	Donald Trump's America
09/22/2014 14:08:06	Zionism and the Educational Elites
06/12/2014 10:13:41	Repugnant Republicans
05/08/2014 14:06:53	Censorship Is The Norm
03/16/2014 13:02:21	Who Set-Up Medea Benjamin?
03/16/2014 13:02:21	Who Set-Up Medea Benjamin?
01/13/2014 13:13:31	Whose Academic Freedom?
12/22/2013 13:50:44	Snow Job about Israel-Palestine
11/14/2013 12:17:14	Culture of Walls
06/08/2013 11:28:02	A Window On The Rightwing
02/04/2013 17:59:55	The Gatekeepers
12/17/2012 10:22:11	Education and National Security
12/09/2012 12:30:22	To Hell With The Intelligence
11/27/2012 19:18:46	Genocidal Yearnings
09/11/2012 09:18:54	When Democracy Takes a Hit
07/15/2012 11:04:16	Nationalism vs. Capitalism: Guess Which One Wins?
05/09/2012 10:08:43	What Kind of Society Do Americans Want?
04/30/2012 12:07:48	David Horowitz and the Art of Slander
01/22/2012 13:08:14	The On-Going War Against Truth
01/16/2012 11:06:29	The Divergent Faces of Israel
12/16/2011 12:24:23	The Jews Go To War (With Themselves)
10/17/2011 15:57:06	The FBI Goes Rogue on Iran
06/30/2011 14:18:15	Israel and the Issue of Delegitimization
03/22/2011 18:14:57	Arguing the Three Ts: Teachers, Testing and Tenure
03/13/2011 09:05:20	On the Denial of Community Responsibility
02/20/2011 09:34:09	Our Multiple Realities Mess
01/29/2011 11:37:25	The Palestine Papers
01/12/2011 16:17:09	The Tucson Massacre and Our Future
10/30/2010 12:45:57	Other People’s National Sovereignty
09/25/2010 12:07:31	President Obama’s Ahistorical World
09/19/2010 08:41:42	Martin Peretz And The Dangers of Obsessive Love
09/15/2010 18:10:24	America’s True Believers and the Great Muslim Scare
08/08/2010 07:51:51	Iran, Israel and the Holocaust
08/02/2010 11:20:28	The Fate of America’s Justice System
07/24/2010 19:12:12	Our Homeland Security Dilemma
07/16/2010 11:56:46	Israel Turns Against Its Own
07/13/2010 09:57:41	The National Interest Has Gone Missing
07/06/2010 08:20:56	Israel Announces an 'Easing' of the Gaza Blockade
07/05/2010 10:39:14	Thomas Friedman on Turkey
06/29/2010 12:48:18	The Barbarian in a Suit
06/24/2010 19:28:01	Israel Talks Itself Into War
06/22/2010 08:10:46	Shelby Steele Tells Us What is Wrong with Ourselves and the Middle East
06/19/2010 15:05:15	Professor Ian Lustick Advises Israel to Make a Deal with Hamas
06/15/2010 07:46:09	Israeli Public Opinion and the Gaza Aid Flotilla Disaster
06/14/2010 10:08:18	Israel’s 'Independent' Probe of its Attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla
06/11/2010 08:35:16	The Strategic Asset Sham
06/07/2010 10:45:11	Is the Renowned Reporter Helen Thomas a Bigot?
05/06/2010 10:40:17	The Present State of Anti-Semitism

Politics

Date	Title
02/12/2012 11:33:28	Rick Santorum’s Plans For America
05/14/2011 16:16:52	Rand Paul: Universal Healthcare Is Slavery
09/05/2010 08:20:17	Shield Laws, Wikileaks and the Public’s Right to Know
06/06/2010 09:52:33	Vice President Biden Supports the Israelis