Joseph Massad

Jordanian academic · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1963 · age 63

Joseph Andoni Massad is a Jordanian academic specializing in Middle Eastern studies, who is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.

Joseph Massad is read about 80 times a day, in 9 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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2007“The only thing threatening Jews is its [Israel's] commitment to Apartheid and its racist people.”In their wordsFebruary 2007Massad, as quoted in Columbia University's newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, in February 2007Read the whole statement

2003“What is it about the nature of Zionism, its racism, and its colonial policies that continues to escape the understanding of many European intellectuals on the left?”In their wordsMassad, in "The legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre", Al-Ahram, 2003Read the whole statement

2002“The Jews are not a nation... The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have a right to exist.”In their wordsMarch 2002Massad, in a lecture at Oxford University, March 2002Read the whole statement

2000“Unlike Arafat or Nasir, Sadat had been an avid admirer of Hitler...”In their wordsMassad, in "Palestinians and Jewish History: Recognition or Submission?", Journal of Palestine Studies (2000)Read the whole statement

“Israel insisted on freezing the moment at which the holocaust survivors became such.”In their wordsMassad, in "Palestinians and Jewish History: Recognition or Submission?", Journal of Palestine Studies, 2000Read the whole statement

“Since its emergence on the international scene, the PLO has always distinguished between Zionists and Jews.”In their wordsMassad, in "Palestinians and Jewish History: Recognition or Submission?", Journal of Palestine Studies, 2000Read the whole statement

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The 25-minute film Columbia Unbecoming was produced by The David Project, a group started in 2002 "in response to the growing ideological assault on Israel."[58]

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Joseph Massad

4 statements, newest first

Let us imagine a world where the majority of Israeli and diaspora Jews and their gentile supporters are no longer committed to Jewish supremacy.
2003 · Massad, in "The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle", Interventions, 2003, Own words
Zionism as a colonial movement is constituted in ideology and practice by a religio-racial epistemology through which it apprehends itself and the world around it.
2003 · Massad, "The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle", Interventions, 2003, based on an earlier and shorter article entitled, Own words
Palestinians and Arabs were not the only ones cast as Nazis. Israel was also accused - by Israelis as well as by Palestinians - of Nazi-style crimes.
2000 · Massad, in Palestinian and Jewish History: Recognition or Submission? in the Autumn 2000 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies., Own words

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About this person

His academic work has focused on Palestine, Zionism, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, and nationalism, identity, culture, and sexuality in the Arab world.

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