Asaf Romirowsky

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Asaf Romirowsky is a Middle East historian and political commentator. He is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).[1]

Biography

Asaf Romirowsky holds a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a doctorate from King's College London.[2] He is the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME).[3][4]

Trained as a Middle East historian, he holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King's College London and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as Israeli and Zionist history.

Romirowsky is co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief and a contributor to The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel.[5] Romirowsky's publicly-engaged scholarship has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Interest , The New Republic, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet and Tablet among other online and print media outlets.[6]

Romirowsky is a critic of Palestinian terrorism.[7]

In late 2007, his invitation to take part in an academic panel at the

Muqtedar Khan, objected to sharing a podium with a former Israeli soldier.[8][9][10][11]

UNRWA and Palestinian refugees

Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief, the 2013 book Romirowsky co-authored with

supersessionist Christianity that could not reconcile the possibility of a rebirth of Jewish nationhood in the Land of Israel."[13][14]

Romirowsky believes that UNRWA is an "anomaly within the world of refugee relief" and that it encourages the refugees it cares for towards terrorism and intransigence.[15]

Romirowsky favors limiting the definition of who is a Palestinian refugee so that descendants of those who fled or were expelled by Israel during the 1948 war would not be counted as refugees.[16] Marouf Hasian Jr. criticizes Romirowsky by arguing that he is minimizing the existestential dangers facing the Palestinians by complaining about how UNRWA categorizes refugees. According to him, Romirowsky's message is that "happy and carefree generations of Palestinians don't mind being refugees, and the UNRWA revels in its role as dispenser of aid" which he thinks is false.[17]

References

  1. ^ Redden, Elizabeth (19 August 2014). "Boycott Battles Ahead". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Asaf Romirowsky". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
  3. ^ "Staff". Middle East Forum. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
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  6. ^ "Articles authored by Asaf Romirowsky - SPME Scholars for Peace in the Middle East". SPME. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
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  8. ^ Vasoli, Bradley (2007-10-30). "Professor Kicked Off Panel For Military Record". The Bulletin - Philadelphia's Family Newspaper. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  9. ^ Jaschik, Scott (2007-10-31). "Israeli Booted". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
  10. ^ "Israeli veteran disinvited from panel". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 2007-10-30. Archived from the original on 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
  11. ^ Militano, Alison (2007-11-09). "Controversy surrounds speakers at Middle East panel". The Review (University of Delaware's Independent Student Newspaper Since 1882). Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
  12. ^ "Failed Religious Diplomacy at the Birth of Israel". The National Interest. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
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  15. ^ Wisse 2011: Scholars Asaf Romirowsky and Nicole Brackman have rightly called UNRWA an “anomaly within the world of refugee relief” for the way it prolonged suffering and anger to become “a weapon to encourage [generations] toward terrorism and intransigence.”
  16. ^ Guttman 2012.
  17. ^ Hasian 2016, p. 194.

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