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'''David Bernard Capitanchik''' is an academic and terrorism expert popular with the British media. He has written numerous papers on Israeli politics for the [[Institute for Jewish Policy Research]].
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'''David Bernard Capitanchik''' is an academic and terrorism expert based in Scotland. He appears to have been primarily interested in Jewish and Israeli politics until the mid-1990s when he emerges as a media terrorism expert.
  
 
==Education and Career==
 
==Education and Career==
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Capitanchik first appeared in the print media in 1996 advocating censorship of the internet because of "increasing racism, xenophobia, intolerance and bigotry"<ref>J W B Greenwood Bingley, Mailings, The Guardian, 16 May 1996</ref> 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.<ref>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)<ref> 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"<ref>'Nightmare on the way says expert', ''Daily Record'', 29 July 1996</ref>  
 
Capitanchik first appeared in the print media in 1996 advocating censorship of the internet because of "increasing racism, xenophobia, intolerance and bigotry"<ref>J W B Greenwood Bingley, Mailings, The Guardian, 16 May 1996</ref> 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.<ref>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)<ref> 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"<ref>'Nightmare on the way says expert', ''Daily Record'', 29 July 1996</ref>  
  
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".<ref>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)<ref>
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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".<ref>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)</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

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David Capitanchik

David Bernard Capitanchik is an academic and terrorism expert based in Scotland. He appears to have been primarily interested in Jewish and Israeli politics until the mid-1990s when he emerges as a media terrorism expert.

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 (2000-2005)[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 List 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.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

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".[4]

Affiliations

Notes

  1. RGU News February 2005
  2. Lloyd's List, 'Energy World: In the Pipeline', 24 August 1995 (accessed via Lexis Nexis)
  3. J W B Greenwood Bingley, Mailings, The Guardian, 16 May 1996
  4. 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)