John Bunzl

John Bunzl (* 1945 in London ) is an Austrian political scientist and Middle East expert as well as a sociologist. He is a Senior Fellow of the Austrian Institute for International Politics (oiip) .

Life

Bunzl grew up as an entrepreneur's son in Ortmann, a small Lower Austrian village near Pernitz , where his family owned a villa (1914) designed by the architect Josef Frank . He completed his Matura in Vienna in 1966. He then began studying sociology in Vienna, which he completed in 1971. He received his doctorate in 1975 and habilitation in political science in Innsbruck in 1988.

1977/78 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Conflict Research Vienna. Since 1978 he has been a lecturer at Austrian universities and since 1980 research assistant at the Austrian Institute for International Politics (oiip). He teaches at the Universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna. Although he is of Jewish origin himself, Bunzl is particularly committed to the concerns of the Palestinians and has received sharp criticism as well as recognition. He was accused of anti-Semitism several times. He also works on the subject of Jewish history .

Bunzl's son Matti is the director of the Wien Museum .

Works (selection)

• as Ed .: The Middle East Conflict. Analyzes and documents. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1981 ISBN 3700302738 and Campus, Frankfurt 1981 ISBN 3593329093
• The other Israel: talks with the peace movement. Junius, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-88506-121-X
• The long arm of memory: Jewish consciousness today. Böhlau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-205-05076-2
• Hoppauf Hakoah : Jewish sport in Austria from the beginning to the present. Junius, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900370-10-9
• Jews in the Orient: Jewish communities in the Islamic world and Oriental Jews in Israel. Junius, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-900370-83-4 .
• edited with Nadia El-Masri: The Uprising: Palestinian and Israeli Voices on the Intifada. Passagen, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-900767-37-8 .
• Violence without borders: Middle East terror and Austria. Braumüller, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7003-0926-0 .
• Between Washington and Jerusalem: Middle East lobbies in the USA. Braumüller, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7003-0980-5 .
• edited with Alexandra Senft: Between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Prejudices and projections in Europe and the Middle East. VSA publishing house for the study of the labor movement, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-281-9
• Israel in the Middle East: An Introduction. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77992-6 .
• edited with Farid Hafez : Islamophobia in Austria. Studienverlag , Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4785-7 .

Awards

• 2009: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book

Web links

• Literature by and about John Bunzl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short autobiography
2. ↑ Josef Frank. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Bunzl at the oiip
4. ↑ Florian Markl: The allegedly catastrophic founding of Israel. In: The Standard . November 25, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Hannah Arendt , Zionism from Today's Perspective (1945) * Walter Laqueur , Thirteen Theses on Zionism * Bernhard Lewis (misspelling), On the Zionism Resolution of the UN (United Nations) * John Bunzl, Israel and South Africa * Shaul Zarhi, The occupied territories, an economic burden * Jamil Hilal, The social transformation of the occupied territories * Sima Flapan, Who's afraid of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)? * Uri Avneri , Israel and the PLO * Said Hammami & James Dorsey, The Dialogue Continues * Sabri Jiriys & David Mandel, For a Realistic Strategy * Mosche Machover & Hammami, Living Together * Bunzl, The Recent Changes in the Middle East: Iranian Revolution , Israeli-Egyptian treaty and the role of the USA * Documents: United Nations partition resolution 1947 * Proclamation document of the State of Israel 1948 * Law of Return * PLO charter , excerpts (only Articles 1, 3, 6 and 19) and the program von El Fatah * Bunzl, Commentary on the PLO Charter * Declaration of the Palestinian National Council of March 20, 1977 * Text of UN Resolution 242 of November 22, 1967 * Text of Resolution 338 of the UN Security Council of October 22, 1973 * From the Speech by Anwar Sadat before the Knesset on October 20, 1977 * Framework for peace in the Middle East * Three talks between Bruno Kreisky and Jeshajahu (Ishayahu) Ben Porath (first in Jedi'ot Acharonot ) February - March 1980 * Bunzl: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Islam