James Petras

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James Petras (born January 17, 1937 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a retired professor of sociology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax (Nova Scotia) , Canada . He publishes on political issues in Latin America and the Middle East.

life and work

Petras received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley . In 1972 he joined the Sociology Department at Binghamton University . 1982–1984 he was director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Athens .

Petras is the author of 62 books translated into 29 languages, 600 technical articles and 2000 press articles and describes himself as a " revolutionary and anti-imperialist activist and author". He worked for the Brazilian landless movement MST and was a member of the Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America from 1973-76 .

Attitude to Israel and Jews

In his book Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists, Militants (2008), he accuses US Jews of exerting ominous influence on US foreign policy . and sketches the image of a global hegemony that represents "the financial ruling class, the Zionist power constellation and the legislative clientele collaborating with them".

In The Power of Israel in the United States , Petras claims, citing the Forbes Billionaire List , that American Jews make up less than 2% of the population but 25 to 30% of the richest families. In his review for the hpd of the German translation published by Zambon under the title “Herr oder Knecht?” In 2010, Armin Pfahl-Traughber asked whether Petras was referring to the terms “Zionist network of power in the USA” or . “Zionist power structure”, which he uses so often that he mostly only speaks of “ZM”, is not aware that neo-Nazi Jew - haters speak of the “ Zionist-occupied government ”. And asks whether “this similarity does not reveal much of at least structural similarities in thinking”. Petras climbs "into a distorted picture of secret power that is hardly distinguishable from anti-Semitic claims", "has little to do with understandable criticism and instead uses stereotypical views of conspiratorial action".

An article from 2006 entitled "Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Still Abound" the Anti-Defamation League criticized Petras' claim that there is evidence that "the Israelis" possibly on the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 were informed , but this information would be withheld by the US government as anti-Semitic conspiracy theory . Other critics also accuse Petra's anti-Semitism .

Awards

In 1968 Petras received the award for the best dissertation from the Western Political Science Association . The Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Award . For the best book of 2002 he received the Robert Kenny Award .

Selection of bibliography

  • Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists and Militants , Clarity Press, Inc. 2007, ISBN 978-0932863546
  • The Power of Israel in the United States , Clarity Press, Inc. 2006, ISBN 0-932863-51-5
    • Master or servant? . Zambon. 2008
  • Empire with Imperialism: The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal Capitalism , Luciano Vasapollo, Zed Books, 2006.
  • Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador , with Henry Veltmeyer, Pluto Press, 2005.
  • Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century , with Henry Veltmeyer, Zed Books, 2001.
  • The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America , with Henry Veltmeyer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
  • Empire or Republic: Global Power or Domestic Decay in the US , with Morris Morley, Routledge, 1994.
  • Latin America in the Time of Cholera: Electoral Politics, Market Economics, and Permanent Crisis , Routledge, 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ personal website
  2. ^ Binghamton University Staff List
  3. ^ Movimento dos Trabalhadore Rurais Sem Terra
  4. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: “Master or servant?” Israel and USA hpd of October 27, 2011
  5. ^ 9/11 Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Still Abound , Anti-Defamation League , September 7, 2006.
  6. ↑ See for example Theo Bruns: James Petras and the "Spirit of Auschwitz". The anti-Semitic failures of the left-wing US sociologist , on HaGalil , June 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Petras, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts