A 50 year anniversary look at the Israel-Palestine conflict since the Six Day War

Gershon Shafir is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He served as the Director of its Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies, and is the founding Director of its Human Rights Program. Is  former aPresident of the Israel Studies Association. Prof Shafir received his B.A.s in Political Science, Economics, Sociology from Tel Aviv University in Israel and later an M.A. from UCLA, and his Ph. D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of ten books, among them Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award in 2002. His most recent book just published is A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict - marks the 50th year anniversary since the Six Day War in 1967 that largely defined modern Israel today.