Lawrence Davidson

Lawrence Davidson is a retired professor of Middle East History at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

In 1970, with the breakup of the SDS, Davidson left the United States for Canada. He spent the next six years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton where he earned a PhD (1976) in modern European Intellectual history.

After returning to the United States in the mid-1970s, Davidson spent several years as an adjunct instructor at various colleges and universities, as well as working for a time as a middle manager at Alexian Brothers Health Systems Catholic hospital in St. Louis. He retired from WCU in May 2013.

Currently, Davidson writes for his Blog To The Point Analyses and is a contributing editor for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. Davidson is a board member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Cultural Genocide (2012) In 2012, Rutgers University Press published Davidson's book Cultural Genocide. Davidson defines cultural genocide as the "purposeful destructive targeting of out-group cultures so as to destroy or weaken them in the process of conquest or domination".

Books Davidson, Lawrence. The Alexian Brothers of Chicago: An Evolutionary Look at the Monastery and Modern Health Care. New York: Vantage Press, 1990. Davidson, Lawrence. Islamic Fundamentalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Davidson, Lawrence. America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. Gainesville, FL: U of Florida, 2001. Goldschmidt, Arthur, Lawrence Davidson, and Tom Weiner. A Concise History of the Middle East. Boulder, CO. : Westview Press, 2002. Davidson, Lawrence. Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest. Lexington: U of Kentucky, 2009. Davidson, Lawrence. Cultural Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2012. Davidson, Lawrence. Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice). Palgrave Macmillan, 2019