Meron Benvenisti

Meron Benvenisti ((Hebrew: מירון בנבנישתי‎), born 1934) is an Israeli political scientist who was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978 and administered East Jerusalem and its largely Arab neighbourhoods[1]. He has long been a critic of Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and is an advocate of the idea of a binational state.

Benvenisti has been a critic of Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan arguing that it will lead to a "bantustan model" for Gaza and the West Bank and create an apartheid Israel.

He warns that the plan will ultimately fail and "the day will come when believers in this illusion will realise that "separation" is a means to oppress and dominate, and then they will mobilise to dismantle the apartheid apparatus."[2]

Benvenisti established the West Bank Database Project in 1982.

He writes a column for Haaretz and has written several books. He was fired by Haaretz in May 2009, and hasn't published his articles since then.

He is the son of Israel Prize recipient David Benevisti. [3]

Bibliography, books (partial)

• Benvenisti, Meron (1970): The Crusaders in the Holy Land, New York.
• Benvenisti, Meron (1976): Jerusalem, the Torn City, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ISBN 0-8166-0795-8)
• Benvenisti, Meron (1984): West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel's Policies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, ISBN 0-8447-3544-2
• Benvenisti, Meron (1986): Conflicts and Contradictions, Villard, ISBN 0-394-53647-9
• Benvenisti, Meron (1995): Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land University of California Press ISBN 0-520-08567-1
  • Foreword: Jeremiah and Jonah, By Thomas L. Friedman and Chapter four: Deus ex Machina
• Benvenisti, Meron (1996): City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem University of California Press ISBN 0-520-20521-9
• Benvenisti, Meron (2002): Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23422-7
  • Uprooted and planted; chapter 5 in Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948.

Bibliography, articles (partial)

• Either a Zionist or a terrorist, 2 January 2002 Haaretz,
• Systematically burying ourselves, 17 January 2002, Haaretz,
• The homeland purified of Arabs, 26 September 2002 Haaretz, (about Sataf)
• Loving `the homeland', 10 October 2002, Haaretz,
• The binational option, 8 November 2002, Haaretz,
• The never-ending enterprise, 21 November 2002, Haaretz,
• A tank under the Christmas tree, 19 December 2002, Haaretz,
• Prime minister of what?, 13 March 2003, Haaretz,
• The true test of the imperial pretension, 10 April 2003, Haaretz,
• The capital nobody wants to lead, 24 April 2003, Haaretz,
• The High Court and fear of return, 3 July 2003, Haaretz, (about Ikrit)
• When will Israel become a homeland?, 31 July 2003, Haaretz,
• : Cry, the beloved two-state solution (Part 2), 8 August 2003, Haaretz,
• A wall against fear, 28 August 2003, Haaretz,
• Defensive walls of self-righteousness, 6 November 2003, Haaretz,
• Which kind of binational state?, 20 November 2003, Haaretz,
• Bantustan Plan for an Apartheid IsraelThe Guardian April 26, 2004.
• The hypocrisy of tolerance, 9 February 2006, Haaretz, (about the Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem)
• A lull of no return, 29 May 2008, Haaretz, (on the possible/probable de facto long-term political division between Gaza and the West Bank and its effects on both Israel and the Palestinians)