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Kattan takes a fresh look at the prehistory of the Israel- Palestine dispute, as well as the evolution of international law and its import for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. He sets out to explore how the conflict began, and so pours over the writing of scores of European political figures, and leaders of Zionist and Arab nationalist movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries. His key insight: Neither Arabs nor Jews were to blame for triggering hostilities, but rather Britain, and the other major powers. Kattan argues that anti-Semitism, which welled up during a period of collapsing colonial empires, motivated British actions that led to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and paved the way for trouble over decades to the current time
This video was produced by the MIT ODL Video Services and published on their webpage on the 22nd of February, 2010.
To read the transcript of the interview: Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, anarchist, linguist, author and institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s taught for more than half a century. Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his latest being “Because We Say So“. Chomsky has been a highly influential academic figure throughout his career, and was cited within the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. His work has influenced a wide range of domains, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, logic, mathematics, music theory and analysis, psychology and immunology.
Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law. Victor obtained his LL.B. from Brunel University London with Honours, his LL.M from the University of Leiden School of Law, and his Ph.D in international law from the School of Law at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he was awarded a scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Victor is a member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of International Law and is Area Editor for the Middle East and Islam for Oxford Bibliographies of International Law. He was awarded the inaugural Asian Society of International Law Younger Scholar Prize for the best article published in the Asian Journal of International Law.
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