Rethinking 1948 and Israel’s war on Palestine

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Benny Morris was born in Israel and grew up in Jerusalem and New York. He has a BA in modern history from the Hebrew University and a PhD in modern European history from Cambridge University. He worked as a journalist at the Jerusalem Post for 12 years and, from 1997 to 2017, taught at the Middle East Studies Department at Ben-Gurio University in Israel. In 2015-2018, he taught at Georgetown University. He has written widely in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Corriere della Sera, Ha’aretz, The New Republic, etc. Among his books are “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited” (Cambridge UP, 2004),  “The Thirty-Year Genocide, Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924″ and “1948, a History of the First Arab-Israeli War” (Yale UP, 2008).

Speaker: Benny Morris

Chair: Professor David Kershaw