20 Facts About Naseer Aruri

Naseer H Aruri was an American scholar-activist and expert on Middle East politics, US foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights.

Naseer Aruri was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine in 1934.

Naseer Aruri's father was a high school principal in Jerusalem and he and his family split their time between Jerusalem and the West Bank village of Burham, where the family home still stands.

Naseer Aruri emigrated to the United States in 1954 in order to pursue a college education.

Naseer Aruri arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his brother, Said, was already a student at the American International College.

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Naseer Aruri was elected to three consecutive terms as a member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA.

Naseer Aruri was a Founding Member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Cairo and Geneva in 1982 and a member of the editorial board of Third World Quarterly.

Naseer Aruri was a key participant in the drafting of the Arab Covenant of Human Rights under the auspices of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Justice, in Siracusa, Italy in December 1986.

Naseer Aruri is a member of the Independent Palestinian Commission for the Protection of Citizens Rights since its inception in January 1994, and a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the International Institute for Criminal Investigations in The Hague.

Naseer Aruri has testified as an “expert witness” in US Federal and Canadian Courts in cases dealing with political asylum and deportation.

Naseer Aruri is a former member of the Palestinian National Council, the parliament-in-exile of the Palestinian people and served on the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Naseer Aruri was a founding member and twice served as President of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates.

Naseer Aruri was a founding member and former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Trans-Arab Research Institute and a member of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Fund and its Palestine Center Committee.

Naseer Aruri has spoken at hundreds of universities and scholarly conferences and has appeared as a guest on numerous media outlets throughout the world, including PBS NewsHour, CNN Crossfire, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight, ABC News, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera and has been a commentator on NPR, Pacifica Radio, the BBC, Radio Monte Carlo, the Voice of America and Alternative Radio.

Naseer Aruri has published widely in newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals throughout the Globe.

Naseer Aruri is the co-author of Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History.

Naseer Aruri was a consistent critic of the decades long US dominated “peace process” that he has argued was never intended to reach a just peace, but rather designed to serve Israeli and American interests in the region.

Naseer Aruri was a harsh critic of the Oslo Peace Accords in what he suggested, at the time, amounted to a surrendering of the internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian people.

Naseer Aruri has been especially vocal in his criticism of the PLO, and later the Palestine Authority, for its complicity in a process that he has described as providing the framework and cover for further Israeli colonization of Palestinian land.

Naseer Aruri died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 10 February 2015, aged 81.