David Capitanchik
David Bernard Capitanchik is a former academic and e-learning development officer. He appears to have been primarily interested in Jewish and Israeli politics until the mid-1990s when he emerged as a media terrorism expert. His role as a 'terror expert' has largely occurred after he ceased to be an academic.
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Education and Career
- Aberdeen University, Senior Lecturer in Politics (1967-1993)
- Aberdeen College, Strategic Development Executive (c.1995-1999)
- The Robert Gordon University, Project Development Officer with the Department of eLearning (2000- December 2004, at which point he retired)[1]
Academic Writings
Capitanchik was most active as an academic during the 1980s and '90s. The academic database ISI Web of Knowledge list 48 papers authored by Capitanchik since 1981. Only four of those were published this decade, the last of which was in 2003. The great majority are book reviews published in International Affairs (23) and the Jewish Journal of Sociology (13); mostly on Israeli politics and society.
Corporate oil connections
A Lloyd's Lists New Release in 1995 reveals that Capitanchik hosted an ad hoc radio station Offshore Europe Radio, which was set up specifically for the Offshore Europe '95 exhibition and conference in Aberdeen in September 1995.[2]
Media presence
Capitanchik first appeared in the print media in 1996 advocating censorship of the internet because of "increasing racism, xenophobia, intolerance and bigotry"[3] This related to a report he had written for the Institute for Jewish Policy Research with Michael Whine of the Board of Deputies of British Jews on the use of the internet by extreme right-wing groups.[4] Later that year Capitanchik appears again, warning that the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in the United States may be the start of a "US neo-Nazi terror campaign"[5]
Even before his first appearance in print media it would seem that Capitanchik had already developed a TV and radio presence beecause he is refered to in the editor's notes of a 1996 press release as "a frequent radio and TV commentator on terrorism and Middle East affairs".[6]
Affiliations
Publications - date order
Journal articles
- David B. Capitanchik University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 'Between Lebanon and the Gulf' Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3-4, 263-272 (1984) DOI: 10.1177/002190968401900311 © 1984 SAGE Publications
- David Capitanchik (1989) The People Fail to Decide: The Israeli General Election of 1988 Government and Opposition 24 (2) , 142–157 doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1989.tb00113.x
- David Capitanchik (1996), 'The Israeli General Election of 1996 - Another upheaval?', and Opposition 31 (4), 449-466
Books
- The Eisenhower Presidency and American Foreign Policy by David Capitanchik ISBN 0710066414 / 9780710066411 / 0-7100-6641-4 Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited, 1969
- Defence and Public Opinion by Richard C. Eichenberg and David Capitanchik ISBN 071009356X / 9780710093561 / 0-7100-9356-X Publisher Brookings Inst Pr./London : Royal Institute of International Affairs ; 1983.ISBN: 071009356X[7]
Notes
- ↑ RGU News February 2005
- ↑ Lloyd's List, 'Energy World: In the Pipeline', 24 August 1995 (accessed via Lexis Nexis)
- ↑ J W B Greenwood Bingley, Mailings, The Guardian, 16 May 1996
- ↑ M2 PRESSWIRE, 'Jewish think-tank calls for regulation of the Internet to curb abuse by race-hate groups' 11 September 1996 (accessed via Lexis Nexis)
- ↑ 'Nightmare on the way says expert', Daily Record, 29 July 1996
- ↑ M2 PRESSWIRE, 'Jewish think-tank calls for regulation of the Internet to curb abuse by race-hate groups' 11 September 1996 (accessed via Lexis Nexis)
- ↑ http://isbndb.com/d/person/capitanchik_david_b/books.html
