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Martin Seth Kramer (Hebrew: מרטין קרמר; born September 9, 1954, Washington, D.C.) is an American - Israeli scholar of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His focus is on the history and politics of the Middle East, contemporary Islam, and modern Israel.
Martin Kramer is a historian and analyst of the Middle East and Israel. This website is home to his weblog Sandbox and a large selection of his published work.
Martin Kramer is The Washington Institute’s Walter P. Stern Fellow and author of one of its most widely read monographs, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failures of Middle Eastern Studies in America.
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Martin Kramer is a historian of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University (and past director of its Middle East center), and the Walter P. Stern Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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The War on Error is a collected volume, a genre against which there is a prejudice. A collected volume does not weave one story. But all the essays included in this one are relevant to a central motif: they contest errors that threaten to become assumed wisdom. The book defines errors as unintentional lapses that leave a gap between reality and its...
The word "error" brings to mind one interviewer's exchange with Israeli Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi regarding the Temple Mount. During the conversation, Tibi insisted on using the location's Islamic name, "al-Haram al-Sharif." When the interviewer followed up by asking Tibi if he thought there had ever been a temple on the site, he replied that ...
War on Erroris more performative than prescriptive or descriptive. Every writer selects the topics of his or her focus. The errors and mistakes targeted in this book -- and a good case is made that these are errors -- all point to a political agenda supportive of the received Israeli narrative. So in that sense, by not being an equal-opportunity pr...
Some of Ibish's criticisms are valid. However, it should be emphasized that there are no concealed motives in War on Error: I am the president of a liberal arts college in Jerusalem who chose to live in Israel, and my commitments do drive my curiosity toward certain topics. Nor do I claim to stand above polemics. My 2001 book Ivory Towers on Sand w...
It is a fact that the Palestinian leader Hajj Amin al-Husseini spent the war years in Berlin as an ally of Nazi Germany. This inevitably associated the Palestinian cause with the Nazi war effort. This is a matter of historical fact, though it is sometimes invoked carelessly in polemics. This summary was prepared by James Bowker.
About Martin Kramer I research and interpret the history and politics of the Middle East, contemporary Islam, and modern Israel. I was the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s first liberal arts college, where I continue to teach the modern history of the Middle East.
I am the author or editor of eight books. The most academic: Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslims Congresses. The best known: Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. The most recent: The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East.
