Camille Mansour

Camille Mansour (; born 1945) is a Palestinian academic. In addition to his teaching post at different universities he has worked at the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), Beirut, Lebanon, in various capacities, including the secretary-general of its board of trustees.

Early life and education Mansour was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, in 1945. He graduated from the American University of Beirut. He became a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern politics at the University of Paris in 1984 which he left in 2004. He was named as the advisor to the Palestinian negotiation team for the Madrid conference in 1991 and for the Washington conference. His term as legal advisor ended in February 1994. He was tasked to establish the law center of Birzeit University, West Bank, in 1994 and then became its head which he held until 2000. He is the editor-in-chief of the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question. This system consists of many tools, including "passive sensors, observation towers equipped with day/night and radar surveillance capabilities, satellite images and photographs from reconnaissance planes and electronic data banks for analysis." He adds that this support is, in fact, a burden to the American government and is not a product of the extensive Jewish lobby in the US, but of the positive approach of the Americans towards Israelis. For him, Americans have a negative view about Palestinians.