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-According to the account of Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan in 1989<ref>''The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror'' by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, New York: Pantheon, 1989.</ref>:
+The Jonathan Institute was founded in Israel in September 1976.
-:The institute was founded in 1979 by [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], a prominent rightist and Israeli ambassador to the United States, who named the organization after his brother Jonathan, who died in the Entebbe airport raid in 1976. Its propaganda function and its design to influence U.S. and other Western opinion makers were suggested by its opening offices in Washington, D.C., and New York, as well as in Jerusalem. Its main activity from its birth was the organization of conferences, carefully designed to bring in sympathetic leaders, experts, and journalists to get across the message: the PLO is a terrorist organization. and the Soviet Union is its parent and supporter.
+==Aims and objectives==
-:The names of the institute's board of directors are not made public, but the organization serves as a virtual arm of the Israeli state.<ref>In pursuing his M.A. thesis, which focused on the institute, Philip Paull found that there was no published information on its officers or board. Written inquiries elicited responses that contained some names, but admittedly not all. See Paull, 'International Terrorism;' p. 58. </ref> Institute officials told Dial Torgerson of the ''Los Angeles Times'' that while the organization was privately financed, the 1979 conference was being run 'with the assistance of the Israeli government.'<ref>Ibid., p. 32. </ref>  [[Brian Crozier]], a participant in the 1979 conference, wrote in the ''National Review'' that the committee organized to sponsor the conference included [[Menachem Begin]], '[who] heads the Committee, followed by [[Moshe Dayan]]. . . and most of the famous names in Israel's brief history.'<ref>Quoted in ibid., p. 33. </ref>
+He listed three aims of 'paramount importance':
-==Activities==
+==Significance==
-*The [[Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]] was convened by the [[Jonathan Institute]] on 2-5 July 1979.<ref name="Netan">Benjamin Netanyahu, International Terrorism: Challenge and Response, Jonathan Institute, 1981, Foreword.</ref> The venue was the Jerusalem Hilton Hotel.<ref name="Netan"/>
+According to the journalst [[Kevin Toolis]] the Institute and in particular [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] are of major significance understanding 'today's counter-terrorism industry'. <ref name="Toolis"> Kevin Toolis 'Rise of the terrorist professors; Throughout academia, the study of terrorism is booming. But in reality, argues Kevin Toolis, these 'experts' represent an ideology that has its roots in the cold war and in Israeli conservatism', ''New Statesman'' June 14. 2004.</ref>
 ==Related==
 The [[American Friends of the Jonathan Institute]] was created in New York City in 1977.<ref name="guidestar">Guidestar [http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/52-1082994/american-friends-jonathan-institute.aspx American Friends of the Jonathan Institute], accessed 31 August 2012</ref> Its mission statement stated its orientation:
-:American friends of the Israel Defense Force whose objective is the support and encouragement of educational & cultural activities aimed at increasing public awareness of Jewish history, the values of Judaism, the role of the state of Israel as the spiritual center of the Jewish people, the dynamics of conflict & peace in the Middle East and the origin of the potential solutions for acts of terrorism in the world.<ref name="guidestar"/>
+:The objective of The American Friends of the Jonathan Institute is support of educational & cultural activities, increasing public awareness of Jewish history, values of Judaism, role of the State of Israel as the spiritual center of the Jewish people, and the dynamics of conflict and peace in the Middle East.<ref name="guidestar"/>
-==People==
+*The [[Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]] was convened by the [[Jonathan Institute]] on 2-5 July 1979.<ref name="Netan">Benjamin Netanyahu, International Terrorism: Challenge and Response, Jonathan Institute, 1981, Foreword.</ref> The venue was the Jerusalem Hilton Hotel.<ref name="Netan"/>
-[[Benjamin Netanyahu]], Director circa 1979-1984
+*The [[Second International Conference on Terrorism]], Washington DC was convened by the Institute at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. on June 24-26, 1984.<ref>Melani McAlister Iran, Islam, and the Terrorist Threat, 1979-1989 in J. David Slocum (ed) ''Terrorism, Media, Liberation''. Rutgers University Press, 2005.</ref>
-==Resources==
+===Publications===
-*[[Jonathan Institute, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry]]
+===Powerbase pages===
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Terrorism Industry]]
+[[Category:Terrorism Industry]][[Category:Israeli Think Tanks]]

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-The Jonathan Institute was founded in Israel in September 1976.
+According to the account of Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan in 1989<ref>''The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror'' by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, New York: Pantheon, 1989.</ref>:
-==Aims and objectives==
+:The institute was founded in 1979 by [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], a prominent rightist and Israeli ambassador to the United States, who named the organization after his brother Jonathan, who died in the Entebbe airport raid in 1976. Its propaganda function and its design to influence U.S. and other Western opinion makers were suggested by its opening offices in Washington, D.C., and New York, as well as in Jerusalem. Its main activity from its birth was the organization of conferences, carefully designed to bring in sympathetic leaders, experts, and journalists to get across the message: the PLO is a terrorist organization. and the Soviet Union is its parent and supporter.
-He listed three aims of 'paramount importance':
+:The names of the institute's board of directors are not made public, but the organization serves as a virtual arm of the Israeli state.<ref>In pursuing his M.A. thesis, which focused on the institute, Philip Paull found that there was no published information on its officers or board. Written inquiries elicited responses that contained some names, but admittedly not all. See Paull, 'International Terrorism;' p. 58. </ref> Institute officials told Dial Torgerson of the ''Los Angeles Times'' that while the organization was privately financed, the 1979 conference was being run 'with the assistance of the Israeli government.'<ref>Ibid., p. 32. </ref>  [[Brian Crozier]], a participant in the 1979 conference, wrote in the ''National Review'' that the committee organized to sponsor the conference included [[Menachem Begin]], '[who] heads the Committee, followed by [[Moshe Dayan]]. . . and most of the famous names in Israel's brief history.'<ref>Quoted in ibid., p. 33. </ref>
-==Significance==
+==Activities==
-According to the journalst [[Kevin Toolis]] the Institute and in particular [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] are of major significance understanding 'today's counter-terrorism industry'. <ref name="Toolis"> Kevin Toolis 'Rise of the terrorist professors; Throughout academia, the study of terrorism is booming. But in reality, argues Kevin Toolis, these 'experts' represent an ideology that has its roots in the cold war and in Israeli conservatism', ''New Statesman'' June 14. 2004.</ref>
+*The [[Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]] was convened by the [[Jonathan Institute]] on 2-5 July 1979.<ref name="Netan">Benjamin Netanyahu, International Terrorism: Challenge and Response, Jonathan Institute, 1981, Foreword.</ref> The venue was the Jerusalem Hilton Hotel.<ref name="Netan"/>
-:[[Binyamin Netanyahu]], one of the most significant figures in the creation of the ideology of counter-terrorism, founded the [[Jonathan Institute]] in memory of his brother and organised two seminal international anti-terrorist conferences.
+==Related==
-:The first was held in 1979 in Jerusalem and, according to Netanyahu, 'exposed . . . the full involvement of states in international terrorism, and the centrality of the Soviet Union and the PLO in fomenting and spreading it'. He quoted the former chief of Israeli military intelligence General [[Shlomo Gazit]], who revealed that 'Arab terrorists participated in 50 different military schools, some 40 in the Soviet Union itself'.
+The [[American Friends of the Jonathan Institute]] was created in New York City in 1977.<ref name="guidestar">Guidestar [http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/52-1082994/american-friends-jonathan-institute.aspx American Friends of the Jonathan Institute], accessed 31 August 2012</ref> Its mission statement stated its orientation:
-Ardent conservative [[Caroline Glick]] writing in the ''[[Jerusalem Post]]'' cites the Institute conference as providing views that 'in large part', 'framed' the policies of [[George W. Bush]] twenty-five years later. <ref name="Glick">Caroline B. Glick 'A return to Jacksonian Zionism' ''The Jerusalem Post'', November 22, 2002 Friday</ref>  She identifies the Democratic Senator [[Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson]] as a key speaker:
+:American friends of the Israel Defense Force whose objective is the support and encouragement of educational & cultural activities aimed at increasing public awareness of Jewish history, the values of Judaism, the role of the state of Israel as the spiritual center of the Jewish people, the dynamics of conflict & peace in the Middle East and the origin of the potential solutions for acts of terrorism in the world.<ref name="guidestar"/>
 ==People==
-===Founding Executive Committee===
+[[Benjamin Netanyahu]], Director circa 1979-1984
 ==Resources==
-===Conferences===
+*[[Jonathan Institute, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry]]
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Terrorism Industry]][[Category:Israeli Think Tanks]]
+[[Category:Terrorism Industry]]

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 The [[American Friends of the Jonathan Institute]] was created in New York City in 1977.<ref name="guidestar">Guidestar [http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/52-1082994/american-friends-jonathan-institute.aspx American Friends of the Jonathan Institute], accessed 31 August 2012</ref> Its mission statement stated its orientation:
-:American friends of the Jonathan Institute whose objective is the support and encouragement of educational & cultural activities aimed at increasing public awareness of Jewish history, the values of Judaism, the role of the state of Israel as the spiritual center of the Jewish people, the dynamics of conflict & peace in the Middle East and the origin of the potential solutions for acts of terrorism in the world.<ref name="guidestar"/>
+:The objective of The American Friends of the Jonathan Institute is support of educational & cultural activities, increasing public awareness of Jewish history, values of Judaism, role of the State of Israel as the spiritual center of the Jewish people, and the dynamics of conflict and peace in the Middle East.<ref name="guidestar"/>
 ==Resources==

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 *[[Menahem Begin]] Prime Minister | [[Yitzhak Rabin]] Former Prime Minister of Israel, MK | [[Moshe Dayan]] Foreign Minister | [[Shimon Peres]] Former Minister of Defense, MK | [[Ezer Weizman]] Minister of Defence |
-==Staff==
+===Staff===
 [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], Director 1978-1980.<ref>Prime Minister's Office [http://www.oecd.org/mcm2010/45296612.pdf Benjamin Netanyahu Curriculum Vitae]. Accessed 4 August 2014.</ref> | [[Lord Chalfont]] Conference Chair, 1984 | [[David Bar-Ilan]] Conference director, 1984
 ==Related==

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 Prof [[Abraham Shalit]] | [[Erwin S. Shimron]]  | Prof [[Zvi Eyal]] | Dr [[Reuben Hecht]] | [[Ellyahu Lankin]] | Prof [[ Suzanne Daniel]] | Prof [[Alexander Fuks]] | Dr [[Alexander Rafaeli]] | Prof [[Benzion Netanyahu]] | <ref name="brochure"/>
 ===Public Committee===
 *Honorary President: [[Ephraim Katzir]], President of Israel
 *Chairman: [[Golda Meir]], Former Prime Minister of Israel<ref name="brochure"/>
 *[[Menahem Begin]] Prime Minister | [[Yitzhak Rabin]] Former Prime Minister of Israel, MK | [[Moshe Dayan]] Foreign Minister | [[Shimon Peres]] Former Minister of Defense, MK | [[Ezer Weizman]] Minister of Defence |
 ==Staff==

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 ==Aims and objectives==
-The 'foremost aim' of the [[Jonathan Institute]], wrote the President of Israel [[Epphraim Katzir]] 'is to inspire our people with the basic values of Zionism'<ref name="brochure">The Jonathan Institute ''The Jonathan Institute'', Circa 1977, 15pp </ref>
+The 'foremost aim' of the [[Jonathan Institute]], wrote the President of Israel [[Epphraim Katzir]] 'is to inspire our people with the basic values of Zionism'.<ref name="brochure">The Jonathan Institute ''The Jonathan Institute'', Circa 1977, 15pp </ref>
-Listed three aims of 'paramount importance':
+He listed three aims of 'paramount importance':
 *…The Jonathan Institute intends to make plain, especially to the youth and army of Israel, the essential facts of the world Jewish Problem, the classic Zionist solution, and the indispensability of Israel to the survival of the Jewish people…
 *… the Institute will advance the idea… that Israel's survival, strength and security are crucial to the survival of the free world…
 *… the Institute will seek to determin the roots of the terrorism which engulfs the world today… The ways and means of coping with this danger will be explored…<ref name="brochure"/>
 ==Significance==

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 ===Publications===
-*Benjamin Netanyahu (Ed.) ''[[Terrorism: How the West Can Win]]'' Farrar Straus & Giroux; 1st edition (May 1986).
+*[[Benjamin Netanyahu]] (Ed.) ''[[International Terrorism: Challenge and Response]]'' Transaction Publishers, June 1981.
 ===Powerbase pages===
 *Ed Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan [[Jonathan Institute, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry]]