Benny Morris
Israeli historian (born 1948) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Benny Morris (Hebrew: בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948)[1] is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. Morris was initially associated with the group of Israeli historians known as the "New Historians", a term he coined to describe himself and historians Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé and Simha Flapan.[2] Scholars have perceived an ideological shift in Morris's work and a departure from the critical scholarship of his New Historian colleagues starting around 2000 during the Second Intifada.[3][4]
Benny Morris | |
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בני מוריס | |
Born | (1948-12-08) 8 December 1948 (age 75) Ein HaHoresh, Israel |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Thesis | The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany During the 1930's (1977) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
School or tradition | New Historians |
Institutions | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Morris's 20th century work on the Arab–Israeli conflict and especially the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has won praise and criticism from both sides of the political divide.[5] Regarding himself as a Zionist,[6] he writes, "I embarked upon the research not out of ideological commitment or political interest. I simply wanted to know what happened."[7] In his later career, Morris has often been condemned for his opinion that the expulsion of all Palestinian Arabs from Israel would have been justified.