Uri Davis

Dr Uri Davis is a Palestinian of the Hebrew language group, citizen of the alleged constitutional monarchy of the UK and of the apartheid State of Israel, born in Jerusalem in 1943. He has been at the forefront of the defence of human rights in Israel, notably Palestinian rights, since 1965 and has pioneered critical research on Zionism and the State of Israel since the mid-1970. As a PhD Graduate of the Department of Anthropology, the New School for Social Research, he has published...See more

Dr Uri Davis is a Palestinian of the Hebrew language group, citizen of the alleged constitutional monarchy of the UK and of the apartheid State of Israel, born in Jerusalem in 1943. He has been at the forefront of the defence of human rights in Israel, notably Palestinian rights, since 1965 and has pioneered critical research on Zionism and the State of Israel since the mid-1970. As a PhD Graduate of the Department of Anthropology, the New School for Social Research, he has published extensively in these fields. Dr Uri Davis is member of the Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (FATH); Muqarrir/Rapporteur of the Revolutionary Council Political Committee; Member of the Palestine National Council (PNC); erstwhile Associate Professor at AL-QUDS University, Institute of Area Studies (IAS), Israel Studies Programme, Jerusalem/Abu Dis, Palestine; co-Founder of the Exeter-based Palestine Studies Trust and University Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies (Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies/European Centre for Palestine Studies), University of Exeter, UK; member of the Middle East Regional Committee of the international Journal Citizenship Studies (hard-copy edition); critical member of the Israeli and American Anthropological Associations; Honorary Member of the Executive Committees of the Mental Health Families and Friends Society, Ramallah, Palestine; and Chairperson of (since his election to FATH Revolutionary Council the now latent) AL-BEIT: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel. See less