Ilan Troen on Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land?

ASMEA and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) held the webinar on May 7, 2024. Prof. Ilan Troen led this discussion based on his newest publication Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Watch the video on the SPME website.

Ilan Troen is emeritus of both the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies (Brandeis, 2017), and the Lopin Chair of Modern History (Ben-Gurion University, 2007). He has served as founding director of the Israel Studies centers at both institutions and dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University.  He is past president of the Association for Israel Studies and received in 2023 its "Lifetime Achievement Award."

Please find his CNN opinion piece "My grandmother was killed in a pogrom. Then my daughter was, too" here.