Sasha Polakow-Suransky

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Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979 in South Africa ) is a philosopher , journalist and author. Among other things, he was an editor at Foreign Affairs magazine .

His parents had lived in South Africa until they had to emigrate because they were active opponents of apartheid . They fled in 1973 and settled in Michigan . Sasha Polakow-Suransky received a fellowship from Brown University in 2002 . He earned a bachelor's degree in "History and Urban Studies" (German history and urban studies). Polakow-Suransky received his PhD in 2007 with the work The Unspoken Alliance: Israel and Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1994. William Beinart was a PhD supervisor at Oxford University on political relations between Israel and South Africa. On May 25, 2010, Pantheon published the book The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. before the public. He described how Israel allied itself with the apartheid regime in South Africa in the period after the Six Day War and how a lively exchange of goods and arms took place. Among the evidence was a document from 1975 in which Shimon Peres , then Foreign Minister, offered South Africa three sizes of nuclear warheads. The deal didn't go through because South Africa used conventional weapons. Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s work received international media coverage. Peres denied.

His older brother Shael Polakow-Suransky is the senior director of the New York City Education Department .

Works

  • The Unspoken Alliance: Israel and Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1994. , D. Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford. 2007.
  • The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. Pantheon, First Edition, May 25, 2010, ISBN 978-0375425462 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile on internationalreportingproject.org
  2. ↑ a b The Man With Credentials To Complement the New Boss’s . New York Times , November 26, 2010
  3. ↑ Two recent Brown graduates win scholarships toward further study . Press release, December 12, 2002
  4. ↑ Africanist Theses accepted at UK Universities - 2007 ( Memento of July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Review ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Bernard Porter: Pariahs Can't Be Choosers (review)
  7. ^ Israel and Apartheid SA: Shady dealings unearthed ( Memento of November 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Rhodes University press release , February 18, 2011
  8. ↑ a b Historian Sasha Polakow-Suransky: Israel allegedly offered nuclear weapons . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 24, 2010
  9. ↑ Chris McGreal: Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons . In: The Guardian , May 24, 2010.
  10. ↑ James Petras: Israel's Nuclear Policy: From South Africa to Iran . In: Background, June 3, 2010
  11. ^ Sasha Polakow-Suransky: Time to come clean . In: Haaretz , April 6, 2010
  12. ↑ Iranian Logic: Interview with Sasha Polakow-Suransky . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2010 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Arms deals: Israel allegedly offered nuclear weapons to South Africa . In: Die Zeit , May 24, 2010
  14. ^ Israel 'offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons' . In: Daily Telegraph , May 24, 2005
  15. ↑ a b Israel is said to have offered nuclear weapons to South Africa . In: Die Welt , May 24, 2010
  16. ↑ see also : Shael Polakow-Suransky (English)
personal data
SURNAME Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-American philosopher and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH South Africa