The Biden administration needs to go beyond cancelling Trump’s commission to protect critical history education.
Lori Allen is Reader in Anthropology at SOAS University of London. Her book, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine, has rece... ntly been published by Stanford University Press (2020).
The Biden administration needs to go beyond cancelling Trump’s commission to protect critical history education.
Chagnon’s writings on the Yanomamo make broad and lurid claims that are dangerous misrepresentations.
No missions and commissions that have reviewed and reported on conditions in Palestine have had any salutary effect.
Most Palestinians wonder what would actually change ‘on the ground’ if the UN grants Palestine statehood.