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Kathleen Christison
Occupation(s)Political analyst, author

Kathleen (McGrath) Christison (born 1941) is an American political analyst and author whose primary area of focus is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

For sixteen years, Christison worked as a political analyst for the

Electronic Intifada[6] and Adbusters.[7] She is also the author of two books: Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy (1999 & 2001) and The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story (2002).[8][9][10]

Philosophical bases

Christison has described the ideological shift she made from "Reagan Republican" to foreign-policy critic as "a slow evolution" that was facilitated by the move she and her husband made away from Washington, D.C. to New Mexico.[3]

In her book, Perceptions of Palestine, Christison examines how perceptions, attitudes, and policies of the United States government towards the

Jewish tragedies is a major theme of Christison's book.[11]

Statements on Israel and the "Israel Lobby"

At a panel discussion on the Palestine Papers, held in February 2011 at the University of London, Christison stated that: "I have nothing against Jews, but I want the dismantlement of Israel as a Jewish state. The only way to get there is to talk about it. Nobody imagined apartheid would end either. What happened in those instances should be a model for a Jewish exclusivist government."[12]

At a conference entitled "I Am My Brother's Keeper: Confronting Islamophobia" held at

Tea Partiers, Israeli supporters, and a lot of this Islamophobia comes from Israel but it also comes from Israeli supporters."[13]

Regarding the relative calm in Israel during the previous few years, Christison stated that

The problem is that Israel has peace right now – there is very little terrorism and has been very little terrorism for several years ... What we need to fight for is justice, not peace ... Peace is a benefit to the powerful – it allows the powerful to continue to oppress the powerless ... Justice gives the powerless some kind of voice in resisting – hopefully not violently – the oppression under which they are."[13]

Works

Books

Articles in the Journal of Palestine Studies

  • "The American Experience: Palestinians in the US" (1989)
  • "Dilemmas of Arab Christianity" (1992)
  • "Macro Microcosm" (1992)
  • "The City and Its People" (1993)
  • "Pax Americana" (1995)
  • "A Frank Examination" (1995)
  • "Uneven but Invaluable" (1996)
  • "US Policy and the Palestinians: Bound by a Frame of Reference" (1997)
  • "US Policy Realities" (1997)
  • "A Morality Tale?" (1998)
  • "Selective Memory?" (1999)
  • "'All Those Old Issues': George W. Bush and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict" (2004)

References

  1. ISBN 0-7546-3961-4
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  2. ISBN 0-89608-687-9
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  3. ^
    Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original
    on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
  4. ^ "The Insane Brutality of the State of Israel". Arab News. July 24, 2006. Kathleen Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years
  5. Jamaica Gleaner. August 6, 2006. Archived from the original
    on September 27, 2007.
  6. ^ Kathleen Christison (19 July 2006). "Atrocities in the Promised Land". Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  7. ^ Kathleen Christison and Bill Christison (March–April 2007). "Does the Israeli Tail Wag American Dog?". Adbusters. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  8. ISBN 0-8130-2421-8
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  9. S2CID 170366557
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  10. doi:10.1525/jps.2003.32.3.39
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  11. ^ a b c Husam Mohamed (Fall 2000). "Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy - Book Review". Arab Studies Quarterly. Retrieved 2007-07-27.[permanent dead link]
  12. Jewish Chronicle
    Online, February 24, 2011.
  13. ^ a b Israel and Jews Blamed for “Islamophobia” Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine by Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), May 19, 2011.
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