Tell us about yourself.
I’m 38, a historian of the modern Middle East, and I’m doing a postdoc at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. I obtained my doctorate at Columbia University, and for the past decade I’ve been studying Gaza, the city and the territory.
For the past two years – together with Dr. Yonatan Mendel – you’ve also been teaching a course at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva titled “Gaza: History, Society, Culture and Politics.” What’s the reaction been?
It’s a popular course. When we first launched it, we didn’t know what kind of reception it would get, but to our surprise a lot of people signed up – so much so that we had to enlarge the class.
Is it a declaredly political course?
Yes. The course is political. We don’t hide that, and we don’t hide our views, which are reflected in the way we convey the material. At the same time, even though the course
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Ayelett Shani interviews Dotan Halevy | Jul 28, 2022