17 Facts About Neve Gordon

Neve Gordon is an Israeli professor and fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences.

Neve Gordon used to teach at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Neve Gordon is a member of Academia for Equality, an organization working to promote democratization, equality and access to higher education for all communities living in Israel.

Neve Gordon is an active member in Ta'ayush, Arab-Jewish Partnership.

Neve Gordon identifies himself as a member of the Israeli peace camp, has described Israel as an "apartheid state", and supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel movement.

Neve Gordon received his doctorate at the University of Notre Dame in 1999.

Neve Gordon has participated in the 'Humanitarian Action in Catastrophe' group at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

In 2009, after Neve Gordon wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times supporting a boycott of Israel and calling Israel an apartheid state, Rivka Carmi, the president of Ben-Gurion University, declared that "academics who feel that way about their country are invited to look for different professional and personal accommodation", and right-wing organisations demanded that his department be closed.

Neve Gordon's articles have been published in LA Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, London Review of Books, Al Jazeera, In These Times, The National Catholic Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education and CounterPunch.

Neve Gordon was co-editor, together with Ruchama Marton, of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel and editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights.

Neve Gordon describes himself as a supporter of the one-state solution and as a member of the Israeli peace camp.

Directly after the February 2009 Israeli election, Neve Gordon stated that it would have "devastating effects".

Neve Gordon stated that the new Yisrael Beiteinu party possessed 'neo-fascist' tendencies.

Neve Gordon concluded that the Obama administration should pressure the Likud-based government coalition economically and politically to adopt the two-state solution.

Neve Gordon wrote in a Los Angeles Times editorial on August 20,2009, that he had decided to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel movement.

Neve Gordon stated that Israel had become so right wing and 'an apartheid state' that he felt he had no choice but to support this course of action.

In May 2006, the Israeli magistrate court in Nazareth ruled in favour of Neve Gordon, and ordered Plaut to pay Neve Gordon 80,000 shekels in compensation plus 15,000 shekels in legal fees.