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Why
did the Palestine Liberation Organization invest in research about
Judaism and Zionism, and how did the knowledge it acquired inform its
relationship to Israel? Jonathan Marc Gribetz, professor of Near
Eastern studies and Judaic studies at Princeton University, discusses
his new book on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Research Center, from its establishment in 1965 until its expulsion
from Lebanon in 1983.
Gribetz
directs the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary
Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia at Princeton University. He
is also the author of Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the
Early Zionist-Arab Encounter (Princeton University Press, 2014). He
was an assistant professor of Jewish studies and history at Rutgers
from 2011 until 2014.
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